This first building was small, according to William Claridge: "[...] at Sekondi [...] Captain Henry Nurse, Agent for the English (Royal African) Company, also built a fort there a few years later.

Both these buildings were of about the same size and only a gun-shot apart",[1] and, "The Dutch Fort Orange was a very small place, being merely a square white house in a yard, mounting eight or ten guns on a terrace on the roof.

[1]: 164  This fort was destroyed on 1 June 1698, during the Dutch-Komenda war, and reduced to blackened outer walls.

[1]: 151–153 A new second fort had been built before 1726 as it was drawn by William Smith (see picture top right), an African Company surveyor, and a floor plan given.

[2] It was transferred to the Dutch in 1868 as part of the Anglo-Dutch Gold Coast Treaty, a large trade of forts between Britain and the Netherlands, and on 10 April 1872 the fort was transferred back to the United Kingdom as part of the Anglo-Dutch Treaties of 1870–1871.