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Horse Guards Description
The Horse Guards, a finely proportioned building with a handsome clock tower designed by William Kent (1753), occupies the site of a guard house belonging to the old Palace of Whitehall. It is now occupied by government offices; on the north side of the parade ground is the Admiralty building.

The Household Cavalry consists of two separate regiments, the Life Guards, who wear scarlet tunics and white plumed helmets, and the Blues and Royals, who wear blue tunics and red plumed helmets. The Life Guards originated as a cavalry unit which formed Charles I's bodyguard during the Civil War, the Blues and Royals (formerly the Royal Horse Guards) as a troop of Cromwellian cavalry.

The headquarters of the Household
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Hobbies & Activities category: Architecture - Renaissance;  Military attraction or museum;  Observe ethnic peoples, folk customs;  Historic site;  Clocks and timepieces
Tips
The changing of the guard parade starts at 11am. daily and the Sunday parade starts at 10am.
Transit
Underground: Embankment, Charing Cross, Westminster.
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