A month ago, I saw a notice advertising the sale of a freehold residential conservation shophouse at Niven Road. As I mentioned in my Blair Road walkabout, I’ve always loved heritage homes, so I thought I’d check out the area and see if it was worth a feature. (If it was just shophouses, it may be too similar to Blair Road to write about, so I wanted to see if it offered another unique angle.) When exploring the area, I was delighted to find more residential houses, including terrace units (i.e. more affordable), virtually at the top of Mount Emily (which is pretty much next to Niven Road.) In Singapore, you usually have to have an obscene budget to enjoy such scenic surroundings – or they come with a catch such as being located under a very busy and noisy flyover (as with these Macritchie houses). So I was extremely surprised to see that there were terrace houses on Mount Emily...