The Governor's House on Zarghun Road, known historically as the Quetta Residency, is the most substantial surviving piece of British colonial architecture in the city. The sandstone building was the administrative centre of the British Political Agent in Balochistan and later became the governor's official residence after independence. Parts of the structure date to the period of reconstruction following the 1935 earthquake that destroyed much of British Quetta.
The building is not generally open to the public, but the exterior — set in grounds with mature trees — is visible from the road and gives a sense of the cantonment era that still defines Quetta's eastern district. The cantonment itself, east of the city centre, preserves a grid of straight roads, single-storey bungalows with wide verandas, and institutional buildings (the District Courts, the Commissioner's Office) that feel transplanted from a British garrison town.