Shanxi Road Lane House | 160 sqm | 4-Bed 3-Bath | Wall Heating | Terrace | Jing’an

The best known is immediately next door. Lane 913 is Si Ming Cun, built by the Ningbo Commercial Bank in two phases in 1912 and 1928, with 118 houses behind a gatehouse. The poet Xu Zhimo and Lu Xiaoman lived at No. 923, and Rabindranath Tagore stayed with them there in March 1929. Lane 877, a little further west, is Mofancun. This is a dense and well-documented pocket of lane housing rather than an isolated building.

This listing is a near-whole house within Cihui Nanli, entered through its own door off the north gate rather than through shared circulation.

The ground floor holds the living and dining room, the kitchen and a guest bathroom. Above that are four rooms across three storeys, two of them en-suite, and each of the two has been handled differently.

The first en-suite was made by opening up two tingzijian — the small rooms traditionally built over the kitchen on the half-landing of a Shanghai lane house — and joining them with a spiral staircase. The two halves can be used together or closed off from each other. It takes light from two sides, and large modern windows have been put in, so the room is bright while still looking out over the old lane below.

The second en-suite is a loft, split across two levels, with the quieter and more enclosed feel that comes with that arrangement.

The house has been opened up vertically from the ground floor to the third, with a large glass skylight above, so light falls through the centre of the building rather than only in from the sides. Staircases run on both sides of the void. The 25 square meter terrace is a true rectangle, which makes it genuinely usable rather than a leftover corner.

Central air conditioning and wall heating are installed throughout.

This is the first time the house has been offered for rent. The rent is 40,000 RMB per month.

Location

Good For

• Tenants who want a whole house with their own entrance rather than an apartment
• Families needing four bedrooms with two en-suites across separate floors
• Anyone who wants period lane-house character with modern heating and cooling

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