ARCHITECTURE
No 199 Canning Highway is a single storey house constructed in limestone and brick with a hipped and gabled corrugated iron roof. It is a very fine expression of the Federation Queen Anne style. The front elevation is symmetrically planned with a pair of gable thrust bays and a full width return bull nosed roofed verandah. The verandah is supported on timber posts with post brackets and a timber frieze. There is a central door flanked by bay windows. The bay windows have elaborately detailed half-timbered gables over them. The roofscape features a pair of render capped chimneys. All openings have quoins.
HISTORY
1912 East Fremantle Grocery. Mr. H. Woodhouse, family grocer, corner East-street and Canning-road, advertises in our Suburban Business Directory that he is still to the fore… (reference)
1916 H. Woodhouse, grocer, of Canning-road, East Fremantle, was charged with failing to comply with the provisions of the shop assistants agreement by neglecting to keep in a time and wages book a proper record of the wages and duties of an assistant employed by him… (reference)
1921 Death on September 7, at Rowley, Canning-road, East Fremantle, Margaret Eliza, the dearly beloved wife of Harry Woodhouse, and mother of Jack, Phyllis, and Frances, aged 51 years. (reference)
1921 Mild Burglary Boom. ...at a shop occupied by H. Woodhouse at the corner of Canning-road and East-street, Fremantle. Here the thieves were successful, for they secured a 10s. note. £2 13s. in cash, and some packets of tobacco, of the total value of £3 10s… (reference)
1928 Safe-Breaker At Work. East Fremantle Report. During last night a grocer's lock-up shop occupied by H. Woodhouse at the corner of East-street and Canning-road, East Fremantle, was entered by thieves, who broke open the office safe. The safe, which weighed about two hundredweight, was removed from the shop to the backyard, where the side was wrenched off. There was only a small amount of coppers in the safe, and these were stolen… (reference)
1935 Marriage on May 25, at St. Luke's Church, Dalwallinu, Gideon, eldest son of the Rev. and Mrs. John Nankivell, Stoak Vicarage, Chester, England, to Phil, elder daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. H. Woodhouse, of East Fremantle and Lake View Farm, Wubin. (reference)
1946 Charities Consultation. Drawing Of No. 332. Fourth Prize, £100: No. 30089, “This Oone.” Mrs. John Knox-Peden, 199 Canning road, East Fremantle. (reference)
RESIDENTS
1909 - 1936: Woodhouse, Harry
1936 - 1944: Thompson, Capt. John H.
1945 - 1949: Knox-Peden, John.
