OHP24 - The Stallion Box Subiaco

The Stallion Box

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 andrestored with a heritage grant from the City of Subiaco because of its rarity.

Three buildings, the original laundry, wood store 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 his good friend Fairview’s first owner John Kennedy, his wife Christina and their 23-year-old youngest daughter Joan Adelaide Clark Kennedy.

The story goes that on that dark night Kennedy and Durack were guided by the lighthouse at Rottnest Island which was then clearly visible from the elevated portion of the back laneway.

Midnight was housed in the outside laundry at Fairview for a week until Roaring Jack worked up the courage to tell Pleasance of his purchase. The legend of Roaring Jack Durack, Midnight and an ice engineer continues to this day and this is how the Stallion Box at Fairview got its name.

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