Minerva House was built between 1979 and 1983 as the London office of Grindlays Bank with Twigg, Brown & Partners as architects. The yellow brick building features narrow windows between closely paired piers. It sits on the south bank of the River Thames just west of London Bridge.
Cartographic sources show that the site has previously housed:
Minerva House was sold for around ã42 million in 2005 and for ã60 million in 2012.
Following the acquisition of Grindlays by Standard Chartered Bank in 2000, the building was refurbished during 2006 and is had mixed use with of office space over six floors and thirty four flats in of residential space. In 2022 works redevelopment of the building began that include partial demolition works with the retention of the existing structural frame and partial facade replacement, a 3-storey extension of the existing building to create a building up to 9 storeys, incorporating additional office floorspace, new external roof terraces and new public realm landscaping at ground level.
The current owners are Great Portland Estates. Previous tenants prior to the redevelopment works included Winckworth Sherwood LLP, TUI, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and Wandle Housing Association Ltd.