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Completed in October 1947, this two-storey house in Trang’s Thung Khai subdistrict (Yan Ta Khao district) was built for Kiwot Khirirat, a locally prominent figure of the area, and has been registered as a protected historic site since 2002.

The building is masonry construction — brick walls finished in white stucco — in the Sino-Portuguese style that spread through southern Thailand’s trading towns via Chinese merchant communities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Each upper-floor window is framed by a stuccoed segmental-arch pediment with a fan motif, paired with a circular roundel vent and a pierced rectangular grille above — Western neoclassical ornament reproduced in plaster, adapted here for the tropical need for cross-ventilation.

The roof is a gable form locally termed a “Manila” roof (จั่วมนิลา), covered in diamond-shaped “kite” clay tiles and framed in phayom thong, a local hardwood. The street-facing gable carries a carved wooden ornament combining Chinese and Thai-Muslim fretwork patterns, in contrast to the plain timber boarding on the rear gable. A perimeter wall encloses the property on all four sides.