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The shophouses on this stretch of Atsadang Road, between Phra Phithak Road and Chakkraphet Road, belong to Bangkok’s High Sino-Colonial & Eclectic Stucco period — built in the closing years of King Rama V’s reign, when merchant-financed shophouse rows across the old city began reaching more directly for a full European ornamental vocabulary rather than layering Chinese decorative habits onto the existing shophouse form.

Corner units along the row carry the style’s signature high-relief stucco pediments — a raised central cartouche flanked by scrolled volutes, sitting above a molded cornice line — over the corner bay’s upper window. Round-arched window openings are framed in plaster architraves, and the upper floor is divided into bays by paired pilasters, another European borrowing this period leaned on more heavily than the plainer Sino-Portuguese rows that came just before it.

Corner unit (photos 1–4). This corner shophouse carries a matching pediment over both of its street faces — the main frontage and its narrower return down the side street — a common device on corner units built to anchor an intersection rather than favor one face over the other.
Coordinates: 13.745075, 100.496460

Shophouses further along the row (photos 5–10). The entrance shown here keeps its original fretwork transom — an openwork wooden grille set above a shopfront’s folding doors, known as a chong lom (ช่องลม) — a feature carried over from earlier shophouse eras: it let air move through the ground floor overnight while the doors themselves stayed shut and secured.
Coordinates: 13.744672, 100.496483