ARCHITECTURE
No 183 Canning Highway is a single storey house constructed in brick and rendered brick with a hipped and gable tiled roof. The place is an expression of the Federation Queen Anne style that has been extensively modified. The front elevation is asymmetrically planned with a full width, return hip roofed verandah. The verandah terminates at the diagonal gables and is supported on paired steel posts. The steel posts replace original timber. There is a central door set in an arched alcove flanked by roundel windows. Diagonally oriented bay windows with casement and hopper lights flank the roundel windows. Gables sit above the diagonal windows. Details include string courses and rendered architraves.
HISTORY
W. C. Barrett and family lived at 36 Glyde Street from 1909 until they moved into this house in 1932.
1928 Tenders are invited until noon on July 11, for the Erection and Completion of a Brick Residence at corner Moss-st., and Canning-rd., East Fremantle, for W. C. Barrett… (reference)
1942: Death on August 18, at his residence, Coorong, 183 Canning-highway, East Fremantle, William Charles Barrett, beloved husband of Maud Reid Barrett; aged 72 years.. fond brother-In-law of Edith (Perth), Janet (Mrs. Mitchell, Adelaide, South Australia), Olive (Mrs.Capt. J. J. Airey), Ethel (Perth), William (Fremantle), and Reginald Smith (Fremantle); aged 72 years. (reference)
RESIDENTS
1934 - 1942: Barrett, William C.
1942 - 1949: Barrett, Mrs. Maud R.
