1881 Heritage Hong Kong
Converted from the original headquarters of the Hong Kong Marine Police, the 1881 Heritage Hong Kong unique Victorian architecture features a shopping mall, a heritage hotel and an exhibition hall.
Facing Victoria Harbour along Canton Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, 1881 Heritage covers an area of 130,000square feet. The buildings' rich colonial background includes the Former Marine Police Headquarters Main Building, Former Stable Block, Former Time Ball Tower which are declared monuments by the Antiquities and Monuments Office in 1994.
The 120-year-old site occupies 12,000 sqm near Victoria Harbour in Tsim Sha Tsui and will also feature a boutique
hotel.
1881 Heritage Boutique Hotel - Hullet House
Taking into account the heritage of the landmark, the boutique hotel Hullett House will showcase Hong Kong's past through its stunning architecture. The boutique hotel will consist of 10 design-led rooms with all the modern and technical mod-cons of a contemporary hotel.
Room decor will be heavily influenced by references from imperial China from the 1870's to the English countryside and contemporary Chinese pop art. Suites will range in size from 600 to 800 sq. feet with each opening into a private balcony.
The hotel will also have five restaurants and bars, a souvenir store and a performance area. The restaurants will include contemporary European dining, an old British-style pub with its own jail cells, and a gourmet Cantonese restaurant.
1881 Heritage Hong Kong at night
1881 Heritage 120 year History
The former Marine Police Headquarters was constructed in 1884, comprises a main building, a stable block and signal tower. It has been used by the Marine Police, except for the Japanese Occupation (1941-1945) when the compound was used as a base by the Japanese navy.
During the Japanese Occupation period, extensive underground tunnels were constructed beneath the lawn but after World War II, these tunnels were blocked and the lawn was returfed for the safety of public.
In 1970s the compound lost a large part of its grounds, when the slope was levelled to make way for the construction of Kowloon Park Drive. The station was also featured in Jackie Chan's films Project A and Project A Part II.
The Old Fire Station after Redevelopment
Redevelopment
The Government announced, on 23 May 2003, that Flying Snow Limited, a subsidiary of Cheung Kong Holdings, has won the 50-year land grant at a tendered price of $352.8 million from six proposals for the tender.
The approval allows the developer to preserve and redevelop the historical building into a heritage tourism facility. Flying Snow will transform the building into a heritage hotel with food and beverage outlets, and retail facilities.
The project is the first attempt by the Tourism Commission to engage the private sector to preserve antiquities by revamping them into a tourist attraction. The project opened as 1881 Heritage in 2009.
Architecture
Main building was originally a two-storey structure; an extra storey was added to the Main Building in the 1920s. The south-east and south-west wings of the main building served as married quarters.
The Signal Tower, commonly known as Round House, was constructed to provide time signals to ships in the harbour. Its use diminished in 1907 when the time ball apparatus was removed to Signal Hill, Kowloon.
The existing time ball mounted on the pole above the domed roof of the Time Ball Tower is a replicate with reference to similar time ball in Britain, New Zealand and Australia as well as archive of Hong Kong Observatory. The tradition of dropping the time ball at 1pm every day is now alive at 1881 Heritage. Next to the Time Ball Tower was a typhoon mast where signals were raised manually during typhoons.
Information
Opening
Hours: 10am - 10pm daily (Exhibition Hall) Address: No. 2A, Canton Road,
TSTi, Kowloon
Tel: 2926 8000
Website: www.1881heritage.com
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