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5 Gemmill Lane

📍 5 GEMMILL LANE
🗺️ D01 — Raffles Place, Marina, Cecil
🏢 MCST 2614Shophouse · Office · Retail✓ Management Directory

About 5 Gemmill Lane

5 Gemmill Lane (Singapore 069261) is a small strata-titled commercial building in the Club Street and Ann Siang Hill neighbourhood of Chinatown. Government mapping records the building name as The Box. It is managed under MCST 2614 and is listed as a mix of shophouse, office and retail space. The ground floor has been used for food and drink: a 2024 dining guide listed Catfish, an izakaya-style restaurant, at unit 01-01. Current occupiers have not been confirmed.

Gemmill Lane is a short, quiet street running between Club Street and the back of Amoy Street. Lifestyle guides describe it as Club Street's little sister, with restaurants, bars and some co-living apartments tucked into shophouse-scale buildings. Several neighbours, including 6 and 10 Gemmill Lane, are conserved under URA's Telok Ayer Conservation Area, gazetted on 7 July 1989. Little is published on the history of no. 5 itself, so the facts below are about the lane.

Interesting facts

  • The lane is named after John Gemmill, a British merchant who arrived in 1828, became Singapore's first auctioneer and opened the settlement's first private bank in 1839.

  • Ann Siang Hill next door was once called Gemmill's Hill after he bought it. It took its present name after the merchant Chia Ann Siang acquired the land.

  • In 1864 Gemmill gave Singapore a marble drinking fountain with a lion's head spout. After years at Raffles Place and Victoria Memorial Hall, it now stands at the National Museum of Singapore.

Nearby

Telok Ayer MRT (Downtown Line) is about four minutes' walk and Maxwell MRT (Thomson-East Coast Line) about six. Chinatown MRT (North East and Downtown lines) is under ten minutes away. Amoy Street Food Centre and Maxwell Food Centre are both close. Heritage sites within a short stroll include Thian Hock Keng Temple, Al-Abrar Mosque and Ann Siang Hill Park.

Key facts

  • Address: 5 Gemmill Lane, Singapore 069261

  • Building name: The Box

  • District: postal sector 06 falls in District 1; the lane borders District 2

  • Property type: Strata-titled commercial building (shophouse, office, retail)

  • Completed: Not verified

  • Nearest MRT: Telok Ayer (DT18), Maxwell (TE18)

  • MCST: 2614