Malacca townhouse
Visit date: 2007
Year of build: unknown
Status: Abandoned

This was an interesting two storey house in Malacca. There was no evidence of a main staircase and the only other route to the 1st floor was a badly decayed set of wooden steps to the rear of the house restricting us to the ground floor.
The original main stairs to the 1st floor most probably was a wooden spiral staircase, which would have been an amazing structure, combining art and engineering into a functional bit of sculpture. I am told no nails or screws would have been used in its construction. Because of its quality and design, these spiral staircases are usually the first things to be stolen.