We’ve run a few articles on conversation houses in Singapore, fromBlair Road to Balestier and Mount Emily, so by now you may be thinking they’re not that rare. They really are though: there are only around 7,200 conserved shophouses in Singapore. In the course of writing the articles, I spoke to several people who lived in shophouses about their challenges and they all mentioned similar issues: pests, termites, and often a lack of parking. Hence when I saw some Cairnhill shophouses had sheltered garage parking (as opposed to an open-air car porch), I thought they would be an interesting feature for today’s walkabout. The Cairnhill Conservation Houses form a single line of properties in between high-rise condos, such as The Edge on Cairnhill, separated into three rows.Zooming out so you can better see their situation: despite the numerous high-rise buildings around them, the area doesn’t feel too cluttered, probably because the roads here are quite broad.Here is the Masterplan of the area....