About 33A Chander Road
33A Chander Road is the upper-floor address of a conserved shophouse at 33 Chander Road, Singapore 219539, registered under MCST 1066. OneMap lists two addresses at this postal code, 33 and 33A Chander Road, both tagged as part of the Little India Conservation Area. In a shophouse of this kind the plain number is normally the ground-floor shop and the lettered address the floor above. The property is in District 8 (Little India and Farrer Park), on a narrow one-way street a block west of Serangoon Road.
Interesting facts
Traffic on Chander Road enters from Kerbau Road and leaves at Race Course Lane, with Rotan Lane joining part-way along.
Until the 1930s, Tamil and Bengali milkmen worked around Chander Road and neighbouring Buffalo Road, a reminder of the cattle trade that shaped the district from about 1860.
Kerbau Road, where Chander Road begins, became the heart of the Little India Arts Belt, with shophouses set aside for arts groups under the National Arts Council's Arts Housing Scheme.
Nearby
Little India MRT station, an interchange of the North East Line (NE7) and Downtown Line (DT12), is a few minutes away on foot. Tekka Centre, opened in 1982 and given its present name in 2000, has a wet market and one of the best-known hawker centres in the area. The Shree Lakshminarayan Temple stands on Chander Road itself.
Key facts
Address: 33 and 33A Chander Road, Singapore 219539
District: 8 (Little India, Farrer Park)
Property type: Conserved shophouse
Nearest MRT: Little India (NE7/DT12)
MCST: 1066