The grounds, including Tyersall Park, are plotted on Google Maps but are marked as "Permanently closed".

in the mid 1800s, Woodneuk House was located on a 36-acre section of the Tyersall Park estate[2][3] owned by the English trader Captain John Dill Ross.

Three days after his father's death he moved his residence to the new combined estate, Tyersall, from Telok Blangah.

[8] Sultana Khadijah died in the palace on 1 February 1904, and Abu Bakar's son and successor Sultan Ibrahim Al-Marhum took over.

On its former site, a replacement structure, Istana Wooden York, was later designed by Denis Santry of Swan & Maclaren,[9] and built by Nanyang Structural Co.[10] Construction began in 1932 and was completed in 1935, in time for the celebration of the 62nd birthday of Sultan Ibrahim of Johor and his 40 years of reign.

On 9 February 1942, during the Battle of Singapore, the palace temporarily served as the headquarters of the 2/30th Battalion AIF under Major General Gordon Bennett.

On 16 January 1947, Governor-General of Malaya Malcolm MacDonald and his wife Audrey Marjorie Rowley moved into the palace after their long journey from Canada.

The Singapore Government made a compulsory purchase of Tyersall Park in December 1990, but it remained inaccessible to the public and was left abandoned and uncared for.