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GRESHAM HOUSE ESTATE COMPANY LIMITED


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/106-01

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: GRESHAM HOUSE ESTATE COMPANY LIMITED

Date(s): 1853-1966

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 40 production units.

Name of creator(s): Gresham House Estate Co Ltd

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Gresham House, in Old Broad Street, was the home of Sir Thomas Gresham (1519-79), Lord Mayor of London, and was the site of Gresham College until 1768 when the house was demolished and HM Excise Office was built. This was sold in 1853 by the Government to six partners and, in 1857, the Gresham House Estate Co Limited was formed by them to manage the property. Other property was purchased in 1936 and 1955 in Bishopsgate (nos 25-27 and 31-33 respectively). Gresham House was sold in 1959.

In 1921 Broad Street Estates Limited (incorporated 1913), which owned a freehold building in Old Broad Street opposite Gresham House, was acquired. This property was sold in 1953. An "island" site between London Wall and Great Winchester Street, comprising approximately 1 acre, was purchased in 1928 and a subsidiary, Great Winchester Street Estates Limited, was formed to hold it. This company went into voluntary liquidation in 1958 and the site was sold in 1960. Since the late 1950's, Gresham House Estate Company Limited and its subsidiary, Broad Street Estates Limited, have been concerned mainly with investment business.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Gresham House Estate Company Limited records comprise minutes of the committee of management and the board of directors; financial material including investments ledgers; annual reports; letter books; rent rolls and other tenancy material.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.

Conditions governing access:

Access by appointment only. Please contact staff.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection rests with the depositor.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited at Guildhall Library in 1981. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

CLC/B/106-01: Gresham House Estate Company Limited; CLC/B/106-02: Broad Street Estates Limited; CLC/B/106-03: Great Winchester Street Estates Limited.

DESCRIPTION NOTES Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: November 2010 to January 2011.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Building construction | Building operations | Construction engineering
Building management | Real estate management | Business management | Management
Business records | Documents | Information sources
Property companies | Companies | Enterprises
Rent | Fees | Finance
Right to property | Civil and political rights | Human rights
Tenancy | Housing tenure | Property ownership | Civil law | Legal systems | Law
Tenants | People by roles | People
Property law x Right to property

Personal names

Corporate names
Gresham House Estate Co Ltd

Places
City of London | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe