ARCHITECTURE
Federation / Inter-War / Bungalow w Georgian Influences
No 18 Moss Street is a single storey house constructed in brick and rendered brick with a corrugated iron hipped roof. It is a good expression of the Federation Bungalow style. The place has been restored and adapted in the 21st Century. It is asymmetrically composed with a full width return hip roofed verandah. The verandah is supported on turned timber posts. There is a central door flanked by sets of casement windows. The roofscape features a rendered chimney. There is a render string course and openings have rendered quoins.
HISTORY
The Cabin Tearooms, started in 1910 at 106 High Street, Fremantle by Ernest Albert and Blanche Rose Evans. In 1928 the tearooms were sold to Fred Farrelly (reference) who was interested in an ice cream factory and shop.
1930 After a successful business visit to America, Mr. F. T. Farrelly, proprietor of the Cabin Tearooms, Fremantle, returned to this State... Mr. Farrelly said that he had completed the purchase of an ice cream confection, known as 'Icy Pi,' which he had been importing from an American manufacturing firm under oppressive expenditure. (reference)
His business barely survived a fire in July 1931. (reference).
RESIDENTS
1909 - 1911: Sinclair, William
1912 - 1913: Banfield, Ernest B. (Related to John Vigors Banfield who owned the Gladiator -the first car in Perth)
1914 - 1915: Farrelly, Frederick T.
1916 - 1917: Hayman, Frank
1918: Hill, Albert D.
1919 - 1921: Sinclair, Captain James
1922 - 1923: Horton, William
1924 - 1927: Stanley, Edgar H.
1928 - 1931: Herlihy, Mrs. Margaret
1933 - 1935: Bailey, H.
1936 - 1949: Herlihy, John
“Our house, classified as a Georgian Revival, was built in 1926”
