Royal Mint Court 2016 planning permission was granted for the grade II-listed building to be refurbished and the site redeveloped. The site of "Royal Mint Court" comprises three buildings, two of which are original 19th century creations for the Royal Mint. The third building is an interconnecting office complex built in the late 1980s after the mint relocated to Wales. In addition to the buildings, two listed structure are also within the site's forecourt; a 19th-century entrance lodge built by Robert Smirke and a set of cast iron lamps on stone white plinths. Designed in 1805 by James Johnson, the building was constructed
Royal Canadian Mint allowed it to refine silver. The silver is first upgraded in an oxygen converter and then refined by electrolysis. It wasn’t until the Great Depression that the Ottawa Mint negotiated its independence from the British Royal Mint. In 1931, the Ottawa Mint was renamed the Royal Canadian Mint and began reporting solely to the Department of Finance. Although the Mint continued to rely on the Royal Mint to produce the master tools required for the creation of its punches and dies, the Mint was finally under Canadian control. In 1969, the Government of Canada reorganized the Mint as a Crown