One of many military complexes constructed by the British Army in the area, the land was returned to the Hong Kong government in the 1970s and gradually reverted to civilian use.

[6][7] Located to the east of Garden Road,[8] Wellington Barracks was previously situated on Hong Kong Island's waterfront with Victoria Harbour, with a seawall running to the north of the barracks[5] (however, the site is located much farther inland now due to the amount of land reclamation that has been undertaken since).

It was connected with Victoria Barracks by a set of cables that ran across Queensway and was used to transport ammunition between the two sites.

[1] As a result, the Government of Hong Kong repeatedly attempted to obtain the site from the military to unite the two districts, but to no avail.

[7] In 1959, the Hong Kong Government paid HK$24 million to the War Department for the release of the land of the Wellington Battery area.