This is on RBL 106 (Barker Road). The land sale (public auction sale) for this lot started in April 1901.
Today Headquarters House at 11, BArker Road is located.
Centadata says:
Date of occupation 04/1974, 6 floors, 12 units
Update 2026-02-03 (see comments below)
The building is situated on R.B.L. 100. The address is 12 Barker Road (old address 454 The Peak). It was built on the site of Crow's Nest. The number was changed to 12 Barker Road in 1996. Before that date it was No.14. See Peak Map from 1960.
Crow's Nest (or Crows Nest) was a building on (toadys No.12) Barker Road below the former Victoria Hospital, its lot is RBL 100. It first appears on the 1909 map (there its number is 133). On the 1912 map its visible with a road leading from Barker Road to Crow's Nest:
Excerpt from "Assessment of 1444 Historic Buildings" by the Antiquities and Monuments Office
List of the 1,444 Historic Buildings in Building Assessment (as of 23 October 2015).
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In science there is a term called data mining – extraction of new informations and interrelations from already existing data. I had the idea of image mining – using images on Gwulo for new (unreported) connections and timelines.
My special interests are buildings on Barker Road, so I chose from Gwulo photos of Victoria Gap and the Peak Tram with Barker Road on them.
Let’s start in 1890. This one was probably taken from Severn Road and shows the Peak Tram and Mount Austin.
This house appears on the 1909 peak map as well as on the 1924 peak map. Construction date is estimated to c. 1901 according to gw's comment. It was built on R.B.L. 97.
Update 2025-01-28
Falconridge (1981-2011) was demolished, and construction work on this site started in April 2012.
After almost six years of construction work, the next generation building was finished. It is now much closer to Barker Road and has three houses on a massive platform.
Update 2025-02-19 after comment below:
In November 2009, the demolition of the old Knightsbridge Court started, first sign of reconstruction ( a crane) was in October 2011. It took a quite long time to build these new houses, they were finally finished in November 2013 - when the first of seven houses was sold. The houses no longer bear a name, the are just 28 Barker Road.
Seven houses in the area of the most expensive premises in Hong Kong. The Standard writes on November 21, 2013:
On the 1912 Peak Map its RBL 126. The house number was set in 1924 to "457, The Peak" (see 1924 map), today's address is "28, Barker Road".
The house was demolished (mid-sixties?) and replaced by Knightsbridge Court.
For some more informations see https://gwulo.com/comment/11444#comment-11444
