Lower Albert Road & Ice House Street

Lonely Planet review

Lower Albert Rd, where the massive SAR Government Headquarters (18 Lower Albert Rd) is located, has many interesting buildings. The attractive off-white stucco and red-brick structure at the top of the road is the Dairy Farm Building, built for the Dairy Farm Ice & Cold Storage Company in 1898 and renovated in 1913.

Today it houses the Fringe Club, the excellent M at the Fringe restaurant and the illustrious Foreign Correspondents' Club of Hong Kong (2521 1511; www.fcchk.org). Towering above the Dairy Farm Building on the opposite side of the road is the Bishop's House, built in 1851 and the official residence of the Anglican Bishop of Victoria.

From the Dairy Farm Building, Ice House St doglegs into Queen's Rd Central. Just before it turns north, a wide flight of stone steps leads down to Duddell St. The four wrought-iron China Gas lamps at the top and bottom of the steps were placed here in the 1870s and are listed monuments.