Hoi Pa Village began as a Hakka mixed-lineage settlement in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Its former area is now Tak Wah Park and adjacent land. One old house remains in the park: it was built in 1904 by Yau Yuen-cheung, a scholar from the village. The building gives the transformed site a tangible link to the settlement that once stood here.
From the journal
Hoi Pa Village’s Old House: Earth, Brick and Timber
A 1904 village house preserves the materials and architectural skill of a Hakka settlement absorbed into modern Tsuen Wan.
In this district · Tsuen Wan ↗A village within the new town
Three materials, one building
The Antiquities and Monuments Office identifies rammed earth, grey bricks and timber as the house’s principal materials, and describes it as an example of traditional southern Chinese village architecture. The three materials make the construction legible: earthen walls, grey-brick surfaces and timber elements meet in one residence.
Preserved, but not open
The house was declared a monument in 1986. The AMO currently lists it as not open to the public. Its setting has changed from village land to an urban park, but the surviving building preserves a specific architectural trace of Hoi Pa within modern Tsuen Wan.