Architect designed 110 year old heritage outhouse conversion in the heart of historic Subiaco. Unique light filled spaces and breathtaking luxury. Indoor and outdoor showers, crystal chandeliers, exposed brick, recycled jarrah barn doors, underfloor heating and antique leadlights make this a truly special stay. Polished warehouse finish concrete floors, an antique teak jali window, custom-designed furniture and steel beams make this space both unique and memorable. Close to gems of Subiaco. This is a truly amazing space with indoor and outdoor living and your own private rear entrance off the rear laneway. It sleeps four people in a roomy queen size bed, a single and then a funky fold down bed. It has heaps of history and is located right near the Paris end of Subiaco's famous Rokeby Road and Kings Park. This story explains the legend of Fairview’s “Stallion Box” and how these luxury converted outbuildings got their name. In the 1920s, John Peter Durack, who was a member of the family credited with opening up the Kimberley region of Western Australia in the late 1800's purchased the nearby “Strathmore” at 18 Chester Street, Subiaco. This significant and prominent mansion built originally in 1904 for boot entrepreneur Walter David Cookes, one of the founders of the Ezywalkin Boot and Shoe Company is located a mere one-minute walk away from Fairview via the back lane that runs perpendicular between Chester and Salisbury Streets in Subiaco. The soft sand laneway was well used and well-trodden at the time by both night soil carters and horse drawn milk vendors prior to the sewering of Subiaco in 1927. Also known as "Roaring Jack" Durack, John formed the law firm of Dwyer Durack with Walter Dwyer in 1914 and maintained a passion for hunting throughout his life, first noted at a gathering while still a teenager. He went on to become President of the Hunt Club of Western Australia, went hunting on Wednesdays and kept horses to ride through nearby Kings Park. Legend has it that without approval from his wife Pleasance, whom he married in 1922, he purchased a magnificent black stallion named “Midnight”. Too embarrassed to bring the stallion back to Strathmore, one dark moonless spring evening in 1923 he brought the horse down the back laneway and hid it in the 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 ice engineer John Kennedy, his wife Christina and their 23-year-old youngest daughter Joan Adelaide Clark Kennedy, with whom he was well connected with via local equine, social and business circles at the time. The 1920s were a time of consolidation for Subiaco’s well educated elite and everyone knew everyone as careers were forged and families were brought up. 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. Soak up this history in this special architect designed space.