London Court
City of Perth, Australia · built 1937
London Court is a four-level mock Tudor open shopping arcade located in the central business district of Perth, Western Australia. It was built in 1937 by wealthy gold financier and businessman Claude de Bernales for residential and commercial purposes. The arcade runs between the Hay Street Mall and St Georges Terrace and is considered an important tourist attraction in the Perth CBD. It received a National Trust of Australia classification in 1978 and was recorded in the Register of the National Estate in 1982. The Heritage Council of Western Australia included it in the State Heritage Register in 1996. London Court was owned by de Bernales until 1950, when it was sold to pastoralist brothers Henry and William Butcher for £A 210,000, equivalent to A$12.2 million in 2022. It remained in the ownership of the Butcher family until 2021, when it was sold to Singaporean property developer Fragrance Group Ltd for A$28.4 million.
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