The house, a two-storey, timber-framed building, sight bays wide and with a central gateway, was a little pulled back from the road.

[1] Oluf Bang moved to the corner of Reverensgade and Vingårdsstræde and his house at Toldbodvej was ub i 1779 acquired by sea captain and destiller Christian Rasmussen Lihme (1731–1784) and goldsmith and brewer Jens Sander Schouw (1724–1798), Schouw, who lived in Laksegade from 1763 to 1796, was from 1778 to 1794 also the owner of another house at Toldbodvej.

Johannes Caspersen, who had recently married Anna Dorothea Weilbach (1763-1841), purchased the property at Toldbodvej in 1783.

Johannes Caspersen's father, Hans Caspersem, who was anchor smith at Asiatisk Plads, had constructed several houses in Christianshavn.

Johannes Caspersen and his family were most likely originally meant to move back to the building on its completion but this never happened.

Hans Caspersen purchased an old house in Kongensgade (now Wildersgade 38) in 1791, demolished it and constructed a new one for the son.

A new owner, Christian Michael Rottbøll (1805-1894), an assessor (law), lived in the building with his wife Gunhild Marie (1815-1902) and five children at the time of the 1834 census.

It is constructed in red brick with plinth, cornices and window frames in Bornholmian granite.