Globe Wharf was built in c.1883 as a granary. It was built on and named after the Upper Globe Dock Shipyard where Henry Bird Junior had built small ships for the Royal Navy during the mid 1700s and where William Marshall had a timber wharf. The builders of Globe Wharf retained the dry dock, but this was filled in and built over in 1907.
Rotherhithe’s shipbuilding yards had steadily been replaced by granaries and other warehouses as shipbuilders went out of business the requirement for Thames fronting warehouses spread steadily east from Bermondsey. It was probably the single largest Rotherhithe commercial building at that time.