Australia’s Most Iconic Outhouse Conversion. Architect designed 110-year-old heritage outhouse conversion at the rear of historic Fairview estate.
Unique light filled spaces and breathtaking luxury. Indoor and outdoor showers, crystal chandeliers, exposed brick, recycled jarrah barn doors, underfloor heating and antique lead lights make this a truly special tiny house heritage conversion. Polished warehouse finish concrete floors, an antique teak jali window, custom-designed furniture and steel beams make this space both unique and memorable.
Design by Shenton Park architect, Sam Teoh into a multipurpose space in 2019 and restored with a heritage grant from the City of Subiaco because of its rarity. Three buildings, the original laundry, woodstore and toilet were repurposed using recycled materials, including recycled bricks, jarrah and stained glass.
Built in 1915 for Scottish Ice Engineer John Kennedy from the Perth Ice Works, Fairview is a particularly fine example of the architectural style typical of historic Subiaco and the late Gold Boom period. Its heritage significance reflects the development and settlement of a wealthy suburb. Located on a prominent elevated corner block at the top of the hill, the Queen Anne Federation home is listed as a place of cultural heritage significance by the National Trust. In September 1923, lawyer and West Australian Hunt Club President John Peter “Roaring Jack” Durack, from the famous Kimberley pastoral family who lived at Strathmore on nearby Chester Street, purchased a magnificent black stallion named Midnight. Too embarrassed to bring the stallion back to Strathmore and tell his wife Pleasance, one dark moonless spring evening he brought the horse down the back laneway and hid it in the utilitarian outhouses of Fairview which had enough space for a frisky stallion and backed onto the rear laneway. He chose Fairview because of its proximity, downhill walk and relationship with Fairview’s first owner John Kennedy.
Story of Repurposed historic 115-year-old kitchen tiles: https://youtu.be/d-7hPR4bLUw
Story of historic repurposed bricks: https://youtu.be/DM8tAWvYAFs
The story of Midnight and The Stallion Box Subiaco: https://youtu.be/DOVxFGjVyVM
The story of the restoration of The Stallion Box Subiaco with the use of local heritage grants: https://youtu.be/4MI6T2RFpL0
