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This location has two separate rows of shophouses, one of seven units and one of five, both showing the same Sino-Portuguese & Early Sino-Colonial features: semicircular arched openings at ground level, each bay framed by a plastered masonry pier, with a timber-plank upper floor and louvered shutter windows set above under a steeply pitched gable roof of small clay tiles.

Each ground-floor pier carries a plain recessed panel rather than the fuller floral stucco relief seen on more ornate examples of the style — a simpler, provincial reading of the same Sino-Portuguese vocabulary found on Bangkok’s Song Wat Road rows.

One unit in the row of five breaks from this pattern: a plastered front with plain rectangular windows and no arched openings, set between two arched units. Where it meets each neighbour, the party wall is a doubled pair of pilasters rather than the single shared pier used elsewhere in the row.

The 1890s–1900s date range for this style lines up with Kantang’s own history: it served as Trang’s provincial capital and port town under Rama V’s governor Phraya Ratsadanupradit Mahison Phakdi, whose former residence nearby is now run as a museum, before the provincial seat later moved to what’s now Trang town.