The East India Company agreed in 1835 to sell the Haydon Square tea warehouses together with a family dwelling to the St Katherine Dock Company for £46,000.
Six houses in Covey Garden, Gravel Lane, three fronting the street and three in the alley behind, together with the site of a house which had fallen down through want of repair. By 1773, another of the houses in the back alley had fallen down.