About 58 Weld Road
This listing is a conserved shophouse with apartments on the upper floors, registered under MCST 0190. Although it is named 58 Weld Road, the listing address is 58C Upper Weld Road, and OneMap records the property as 58, 58A, 58B and 58C Upper Weld Road, Singapore 207412, inside the Little India Conservation Area. It stands in District 8 (Little India and Farrer Park). Upper Weld Road is the continuation of Weld Road on the Little India side of Jalan Besar, so the two names are easy to confuse. The lettered suffixes usually indicate separate strata units stacked above the ground-floor shop.
Interesting facts
Weld Road and Upper Weld Road are named after Sir Frederick Weld, Governor of the Straits Settlements from 1880 to 1887.
Upper Weld Road runs one way from the junction with Clive Street and Dickson Road to Jalan Besar, crossing Kampong Kapor Road and Perak Road on the way.
Little India was gazetted as a conservation area on 7 July 1989. URA notes shophouse styles here ranging from the Early style of the 1840s to Art Deco designs of the mid 20th century.
Nearby
Jalan Besar MRT station (Downtown Line, DT22) sits at the Weld Road junction with Jalan Besar and opened in October 2017. Rochor station (DT13) is also within walking distance. Masjid Abdul Gaffoor, a national monument completed in 1907, is a short walk away in the Kampong Kapor area, and Tekka Centre provides a wet market and hawker food.
Key facts
Address: 58, 58A, 58B and 58C Upper Weld Road, Singapore 207412
District: 8 (Little India, Farrer Park)
Property type: Conserved shophouse with apartments
Nearest MRT: Jalan Besar (DT22), Rochor (DT13)
MCST: 0190