Beaconsfield House

Beaconsfield House (Chinese: 拱北行) was a government office building in Hong Kong's Central district.

In 1841, Hong Kong's Deputy Superintendent of Trade and acting administrator, Alexander Johnstone, had the upper part of the hill levelled to build a home.

Belilios, a Calcutta-born Sephardi Jew who was at that time a Hong Kong Bank director and LegCo member, sold it to the government in 1898 under some controversy – the Legco Public Works Committee resolution to acquire it passed on Mr Belilios' own vote over a suppressed protest for pecuniary interest disqualification.

[3] The building thus housed three service messes, a post office and, dominating the ground floor façade, a large public toilet.

[4] Talks had commenced in May 1993, and were finalised in August 1995[5] In April 1995, Executive Council has approved the sale of the site, for a sum estimated to be in excess of HK$5.5 billion.

Beaconsfield Arcade along Queen's Road Central, with Dent's Fountain , c.1890
Beaconsfield Arcade, Hong Kong, c.1890. The building on the left is the HSBC building (second design)