Constructed under the direction of
Director of Public Works Richard McNeil Henderson in 1933, the building housed a court handling minor criminal cases at magistrate's level. During the
Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, it served as the Kowloon headquarters of the
Kempeitai. It later served as the Kowloon District Court which was renamed in 1957 the South Kowloon District Court. After the opening of the
North Kowloon Magistracy in 1960, some cases were diverted there. The South Kowloon District Court remained in use as a district court until 1986 when it became the Judiciary Central File Repository. It has served as the
Lands Tribunal () since 1997 and accommodates five courts. The South Kowloon Magistracy moved to a building next door (36 Gascoigne Road) where it operated until final closure in 2000. ==Conservation==