Melaka Shop house Characteristics

Terraced Buildings Single, two or three storey Narrow fronts and deep rears Two or three blocks separated with air wells and with or without rear court Shop at front block of ground floor. Family dining, kitchen, bath room & toilet at rear block Family accommodation at first floor and/or second floor

Internal timber structure : upstairs floor board, ceiling & roof structure, doors & windows Load bearing brick & brick party walls Clay brick/terracotta roof profile External five-footway below upstairs room Building print up to street line (no set-back) Lime plaster and lime-wash paint

Typical 2-storey shop houses with continuous 5-foot way

2-storey & 3-storey Shop houses (1930s) along Jalan Bunga Raya shopping district, Melaka

The 5-Foot Way or Kaki Lima ( public corridor in front of a

shop normally 3-7 feet wide)

End-lot shop house with windows at party wall

Corner-Lot Shop House

Business Signboard, 1960s (Pre-war shop houses until 1960s combined jawi/Arabic scripts, Chinese and Romanize script for signboards)

Shop house 5-Foot Way

Art Deco Style, 1930s.

(some premises combine coffee shop at ground floor, hotel at first floor and owner living quarter at third/top floor)

Corner lot shop house. Art-Deco Style, 1930s

Art Deco Style (1930s 1940s).

One large pediment shared by two lots/premises.