About 225 Outram Road
225 Outram Road (Singapore 169038) is a small strata-titled building with shops at street level and apartments above, in postal District 3 (Tiong Bahru, Queenstown, Alexandra). The directory address, 225C, is one of the upper-floor units. It is run by MCST 0311, a low plan number that points to one of Singapore's earlier strata developments. The completion year, developer and tenure could not be verified.
Little has been published about the building itself, so the notes below are about the road and its surroundings. This stretch of Outram Road forms the eastern edge of the Tiong Bahru estate. URA's Tiong Bahru Conservation Area is bounded by Outram Road, Seng Poh Road, Yong Siak Street and the Central Expressway, and it takes in two rows of shophouses facing Outram Road as well as the pre-war flats behind them.
Interesting facts
Outram Road got its name in 1858, when the Municipal Commission renamed the section of the old River Valley Road between Kim Seng Road and New Bridge Road. It honours Lieutenant-General James Outram (1803 to 1863).
Havelock Road was named in the same exercise, after Outram's fellow officer Henry Havelock.
In Hokkien the district is called si pai poh, or sepoy plain. Indian troops of the Madras Native Infantry were quartered at Sepoy Lines from 1827 until they moved to Tanglin in the 1860s.
A few doors away, the round hotel building at 231 Outram Road is one of the most recognisable shapes on the road.
Nearby
Havelock MRT (Thomson-East Coast Line) on Zion Road and Tiong Bahru MRT (East-West Line) are each roughly ten minutes' walk. Outram Park interchange (East-West, North East and Thomson-East Coast lines) is about 15 minutes on foot. Tiong Bahru Market and its hawker centre on Seng Poh Road are a short walk through the estate. The Singapore General Hospital campus lies further down Outram Road. Zhangde Primary School on Jalan Membina is the closest primary school.
Key facts
Address: 225 Outram Road, Singapore 169038 (units include 225C)
District: 3 (Tiong Bahru, Queenstown, Alexandra)
Property type: Apartments with ground-floor retail, strata-titled
Completed: Not verified
Nearest MRT: Havelock (TE16), Tiong Bahru (EW17)
MCST: 0311