panelled in teak, and the curving staircase has a wrought iron balustrade with teak handrail. Three plastered niches are formed in the staircase walling.
Open fireplaces have been designed for both the study and the sitting room, and the latter has a period dog grate and large mirror- glass overmantle.
Carved teak architraves, pelmets, skirting and other mouldings have been used, with simple run cornices, whilst marble columns also taken from the old Admiralty House have been re-used with excellent effect.
Balustrade walling around the site is of turned concrete pots, with rendered piers and concrete capping. The porte-cochere consists of form alised columns carrying a flat roof incorporating architrave, frieze and cornice, and the flanking colonnade is in keeping with this feeling. Services
The principal rooms are com- pletely air-conditioned, having a reverse cycle plant which can be utilised for warming all rooms in turn during the colder months.
Lighting incorporates fluorescent, tungsten and architectural lamps. Crystal chandeliers and sconces, designed by Lady Grantham, have been used in the hall and main rooms, with specially designed bracket lamps, wrought iron lanterns and pelmet lighting elsewhere.
Furnishings throughout are in traditional style.
Work on the foundations, drains and site preparation was the subject of a separate contract; and it was during this period that a number of silver ornaments, binoculars, etc. were unearthed which were believed to have been hidden by P.WD. officials in the basement of the old Hospital after the surrender of Hong Kong in 1941.
General Contractors
Site preparation: Wan Hin & Co. Main contract: Hsin Chong & Co. Approach Road and Car Park: Union Const. Co. and Fook Lee & Co. for P.W.D. Roads Office. Principal Sub-Contractors
Suppliers Plumbing: Tung On Plumbing Co., Ltd.
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Suspended Ceilings: Kan Tat Co. Decorative Plaster & Wrought Iron Gates: Raoul Bigazzi
Air-conditioning Plant: American Engineering Corp.
Gibbons Window & Door Furniture: Gilman & Co., Ltd.
Sanitary Fittings: Shanks Ltd. through Crown Agents for the Colonies.
Roofing Tiles: Langley London Ltd. (Ditto)
Fireplaces: Bratt Colbran Ltd. (Ditto)
Felt Roofing: Dreyer & Co., Ltd. Plastering: Hsin Chong & Co. Paint: National Lacquer & Paint Products Co., Ltd.
Wrought Iron Balustrading: Hsin Chong & Co.
Floor & Wall Tiles: Sino-British (H. K.) Ltd. and Castle Peak Ceramics.
Mirrors: R. Corney & Co., Ltd. Electrical Work: Electrical Office, P.W.D.
Furniture:
H.K. Government
Stores, Furniture Workshop.
Garden: H.K. Government, Parks & Gardens Dept.
EMBASSY COURT, LEIGHTON HILL
PHOTO BY COURTESY MA E. B. CUMINE
EMBASSY COURT, HYSAN AVENUE, Leighton Hill,
Hong Kong.
Building Centre, Island Road, Aberdeen. University of Hong Kong, Main Building Extension. Bungalow on R. B. L. 576. Repulse Read, Hong Kong. Repulse Bay Mansion, Block "B" on R.B.L. 168, Repulse Bay Rd.,
Hong Kong
CONTRACTS CARRIED
OUT RECENTLY
100 Working Class Flats on 1. L. 6551.
King's Road, Hong Kong.
Shum-shui-po Boarding House at Tai Po
Rood and Fei Ho St., Kowloon.
Capitol Theatre, Jardine Bazzar, Causeway
Bay. Hong Kong.
A block of 10 European Houses on I. L. 6603, Wun Sha Street, Tai Hang, Hong Kong.
A block of 15 houses on 1. I. 1407, Irving St.. and Kerswick St.. Causeway Huy. Hong Kong.
Theatre on K. I. L. No. 3502. S. S..
Pratas St., Kowloon.
European House on R. B. L. 409, Repulse
Bay. Hong Kong,
Municipal Swimming Pool, Macau.
Residence for Colonial Secretary. Barker
Kond. The Peak.
War Memorial Centre, Hennessy Road.
Hong Kong
Kowloon Junior School. Argyle Street.
Kowloon.
15%.
Factory for The Hong Kong Soya Bean
Products Co. Ltd.. on A.I.L. Island Road, Aberdeen.
A block of 9 houses on Lot 1347 in D.D. 6,
Tai Po Market, N. T.
Tong Sai Hotel, Queen's Road, West.
"Brenda Anne" Apartment, on R, B, L. 620, Repulse Bay Road,
Hong Kong.
5 blocks of Married Quarters for R. A. F., Waterloo Road, Norwegian Seanten's Mission, Cox's Road, Kowloon,
The Central Hotel. Lockhart Road, Hong Kong. Temporary Office Building for The U.S. Consulate General, Garden
Road, Hong Kong.
PLUMBING INSTALLATIONS BY
THE TUNG ON PLUMBING CO., LTD.
36-38 LOCKHART ROAD
TELEPHONES 31321 & 38996
HONG KONG
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