Ann Siang Hill Barber Shop With a Brush Wall: Heritage House

Heritage House, at 9 Ann Siang Road, #01-01, took over the shophouse that was Truefitt & Hill's Singapore flagship and reopened it in March 2026 under a new nameplate. It is open from 10am to 8pm every day, three minutes' walk from Telok Ayer MRT. A Gentleman's Cut costs S$65 and a Hot Towel Clean Shave S$55, which makes it a strong barber shop near me pick for anyone working around Club Street.

The history is laid out on the shop's own timeline. Truefitt & Hill opened in London in 1805 and calls itself the world's oldest barbershop. In 2013 it opened its Singapore flagship in this shophouse. In 2026 Gentleman's Cuts, a local barbering company founded at Tanglin Mall, took up stewardship of the house and renamed it Heritage House. The line on the homepage is short: same house, new nameplate.

The new owners are careful about one point, and visitors should be too. Heritage House is an independent barbershop and says plainly that it is not affiliated with Truefitt & Hill of London. Older guides still list the address as Truefitt & Hill with the old prices, but those listings are out of date. What carried over is the room and its fixtures rather than the brand.

Those fixtures are the reason to come. The heritage photographs stayed on the walls, along with the marble basin and the members' brush wall, where regulars keep a personal badger brush beneath an engraved brass plate. Truefitt & Hill's grooming preparations are still on the shelves of the product bar, and the shop sells the range online too.

Gentleman's Cuts itself is a young company. It was founded at Tanglin Mall, where its first shop opened in November 2024, and Ann Siang is the address it treats as its heritage house. The wider company publishes a tiered menu priced by barber, senior barber and head barber, but Heritage House keeps one flat price per service, so the menu on its own pages is the one that applies here.

Prices on the Heritage House menu are flat rather than tiered by barber, which keeps booking simple. The Gentleman's Cut, a tailored haircut with a relaxing wash and styling, takes 45 minutes for S$65. A Restyle Cut, for anyone after a new look rather than a trim, takes an hour for S$80. Regulars whose last visit was 14 days or less ago can book the 14-Day Gentleman's Trim for S$50.

The shaves are where the old house earns its reputation. The Hot Towel Clean Shave takes 30 minutes for S$55, starting with a hot towel and finishing with a cold one. The Complete Clean Shave adds warm steam to the ritual and takes 45 minutes for S$75. Any shave or trim can be upgraded with steam and the full ritual for S$20 and an extra 15 minutes.

A Beard Trim with Razor costs S$55 for 30 minutes, and the Gentleman's Head Shave costs S$65, finished with hot and cold towels. Beyond the barber chair, the house offers The Gentleman's Manicure at S$85 and a Kymo Scalp Treatment with red light at S$115. Manicures and pedicures are offered only at this Ann Siang branch among the company's shops.

For a first visit, the Complete Clean Shave at S$75 is the clearest way to see what the house does best: steam, hot towel, straight razor and a cold towel to finish, in the room where the old flagship worked for more than a decade. Pair it with the S$65 cut if you have an hour and a half, or book the shave alone over a long lunch. The house also sells gift vouchers, which make a sensible present for a groom or a father.

The house welcomes walk-ins when a chair is free, but it warns that the diaries fill quickly, and an appointment is the sure route. Booking runs online through the Gentleman's Cuts system. Instagram is the other channel, under @heritagehousebarbers.

Payment is cashless: the house accepts all major credit cards and PayNow, but not cash. Prices are nett, with no service charge added. That makes the menu price the figure you pay, which is not always the case at Singapore salons.

Two private rooms upstairs are kept for the treatments that need quiet, including red light therapy, facials and hand and foot care. A private room is reserved for anyone who books a haircut together with one treatment, a good reason to pair the S$65 cut with the scalp treatment on a long lunch break.

Downstairs, the house's own room names give a sense of the layout: the chairs sit beneath the chandelier, and the product bar holds the Truefitt & Hill preparations. The engraved brass plates on the brush wall mark each regular's own badger brush, a members' tradition the house kept when it changed hands.

The house publishes its own short guide to Ann Siang Hill, and the neighbourhood rewards a slow walk. Club Street runs along the ridge with restored shophouses, and the bars along it fill up in the evening. Ann Siang Hill Park, a small green space on the slope, offers a quiet path down toward Amoy Street.

Thian Hock Keng Temple on Telok Ayer Street is the essential stop, a Hokkien temple whose carved roofs and courtyards date from the nineteenth century. The Singapore City Gallery at the URA Centre on Maxwell Road is the other nearby visit, with a large architectural model of the city that explains how these shophouse streets survived.

Address: 9 Ann Siang Road, #01-01, Singapore 069690. Hours: daily 10am to 8pm. Gentleman's Cut S$65, Hot Towel Clean Shave S$55, Complete Clean Shave S$75. Cards and PayNow only, no cash; prices are nett.

Telok Ayer MRT is three minutes' walk away, Maxwell five, and Tanjong Pagar and Raffles Place about ten. Street parking on Ann Siang Road and Club Street is limited, and the closest car parks are at Ann Siang Hill and Amoy Street, so the train is easier.