Seven Terraces
Seven meticulously restored 1894 Anglo-Chinese terrace houses in UNESCO George Town
About the Property
A row of seven meticulously restored 1894 Anglo-Chinese terrace houses offering a complete Peranakan domestic experience in UNESCO-listed George Town. Restored by the same team behind the Eastern & Oriental Hotel and Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion, Seven Terraces brings scholarly precision to the recreation of Straits Chinese material culture — carved timber screens, encaustic floor tiles, Nyonya ceramics and four-poster beds — within an architecture of rare integrity and scale.
Original Purpose
Anglo-Chinese terrace houses
Highlights
History Timeline
Stewart Lane in George Town develops as a fashionable address following the Straits Settlements formation, with Anglo-Chinese merchant families commissioning elegant terrace houses reflecting both British and local tastes.
A row of seven Anglo-Chinese terrace houses is completed on Stewart Lane, exhibiting the eclectic style typical of prosperous Peranakan merchants who blend Palladian columns with Chinese courtyard plans and Malay tilework.
Stewart Lane residents are displaced during the Japanese occupation; the terrace row is taken over and used for administrative purposes before being returned to private ownership after the war.
The same conservation team responsible for restoring the celebrated Cheong Fatt Tze Blue Mansion on Leith Street begins assessing the derelict Seven Terraces row as a candidate for similar intervention.
George Town UNESCO inscription provides the decisive impetus for a full conservation project; the row of seven terrace houses is identified as an outstanding example of Anglo-Chinese domestic architecture.
Seven Terraces opens after an award-winning restoration by the Blue Mansion conservation team, faithfully reinstating original timber louvers, encaustic tiles, and the distinctive Doric colonnaded frontage.