Golf Club Rd Residence - Ipoh - 1920s
Golf Club Rd, Ipoh.
The eastern suburbs of Ipoh bounded by Tambun Road and Gopeng Road accommodated the leafy suburbs developped during the boom years for Ipoh in the 1920s and 1930s. Many salubrious bungalows and residences popped up along with social diversions such as the Perak Turf Club (1926), the Ipoh Golf Club (1932) and St Andrew's Church (1929). Life for the residents was comfortable with large houses, set amongst large gardens, with space for amahs' quarters. The houses were in a variety of styles from earlier Straits Ecletic to Anglo-Malay bungalows (as is thie case here) to Home Counties 'stockbroker belt' architecture of the 1930s. The original residents would have been expatriate mining staff or those employed in government administration or the service industries in Ipoh. It is unlikely that this house would have been originally a Chinese residence as it is not ostentatious enough to suggest a towkay's home.
The architectural style is here is a typical Anglo-Malay bungalow, found throughout the Straits Settlements and the FMS. It combines Eurpean architectural idiom (particularly Palladian elements) with Chinese and Malay styles with adaptations to the tropical climate for ventilation and protection from sun and rain; louvred French windows, high ceiling interiors, clerestorey windows, porte-cohere and the use of air-wells and vents in the roof.
This is now the Ipoh International School kindergarten, part of the group Tenby Schools.
Golf Club Rd Residence - Ipoh - 1920s
Golf Club Rd, Ipoh.
The eastern suburbs of Ipoh bounded by Tambun Road and Gopeng Road accommodated the leafy suburbs developped during the boom years for Ipoh in the 1920s and 1930s. Many salubrious bungalows and residences popped up along with social diversions such as the Perak Turf Club (1926), the Ipoh Golf Club (1932) and St Andrew's Church (1929). Life for the residents was comfortable with large houses, set amongst large gardens, with space for amahs' quarters. The houses were in a variety of styles from earlier Straits Ecletic to Anglo-Malay bungalows (as is thie case here) to Home Counties 'stockbroker belt' architecture of the 1930s. The original residents would have been expatriate mining staff or those employed in government administration or the service industries in Ipoh. It is unlikely that this house would have been originally a Chinese residence as it is not ostentatious enough to suggest a towkay's home.
The architectural style is here is a typical Anglo-Malay bungalow, found throughout the Straits Settlements and the FMS. It combines Eurpean architectural idiom (particularly Palladian elements) with Chinese and Malay styles with adaptations to the tropical climate for ventilation and protection from sun and rain; louvred French windows, high ceiling interiors, clerestorey windows, porte-cohere and the use of air-wells and vents in the roof.
This is now the Ipoh International School kindergarten, part of the group Tenby Schools.