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7 Purvis Street

📍 7 PURVIS STREET
🗺️ D07 — Bugis, Golden Mile, Middle Road
🏢 MCST 2393Shophouse✓ Management Directory

About 7 Purvis Street

7 Purvis Street is a strata-titled conservation shophouse at 7 Purvis Street, Singapore 188586, in District 7 (Beach Road, Bugis, Middle Road). OneMap records the address as part of the Beach Road conservation area. The building is managed under MCST 2393.

Published detail on this particular shophouse is scarce, so this page draws on the history of Purvis Street. The street runs one way between Beach Road and North Bridge Road, parallel to Middle Road and Seah Street, and is lined with restored shophouses used mainly for restaurants, cafes and offices.

Interesting facts

  • Purvis Street is named after John Purvis (1799 to 1872), a merchant who set up John Purvis and Co in 1822 and was made a magistrate by Raffles in 1823.

  • To the Hainanese community it was Hainan Second Street. Middle Road was the first and Seah Street the third.

  • The street is closely tied to Hainanese cooking. Chin Chin Eating House began as a Hainanese coffee shop at 19 Purvis Street in 1934 and added chicken rice in 1959.

  • Shophouse fronts here carry Chinese-influenced plaster ornament, including vases of peonies, dragons and bat motifs.

Nearby

Esplanade MRT (Circle Line) is about 4 to 5 minutes on foot, with City Hall MRT (East-West and North-South Lines) and Bugis MRT (East-West and Downtown Lines) both within 10 minutes. The National Library building is just across North Bridge Road. Raffles Hotel, South Beach and the Hainanese clan association and Tin Hou temple on Beach Road are close by.

Key facts

  • Address: 7 Purvis Street, Singapore 188586

  • District: 7 (Beach Road, Bugis, Middle Road)

  • Property type: Conservation shophouse (strata)

  • Conservation area: Beach Road

  • Nearest MRT: Esplanade (CC), City Hall (EW/NS), Bugis (EW/DT)

  • MCST: 2393