8 High St ( was 22 pre 1939)
A three storey building with highly decorative façade and half basement (ground floor) below the street level. The façade has tuck pointed face brick with smooth render and a stucco banded parapet. The name 'Tannatt Chambers' is raised on a decorative stucco cornice above the portico facade over the ground and first floors. The east side front entrance and the pointed arched windows of the first floor have stained glass transoms; the arched windows on the upper level have multi paned timber windows.
Tannatt Chambers was designed in 1898 by E.H. Dean Smith as was No. 10 adjacent. The building has a basement and two upper floors.
1901 Tenders are invited by Mr. E. Bayly Trigg, architect, of Tannatt Chambers, High-street, for erection of two cottages in Fremantle… (reference)
1904 Notice is hereby given that the Registered Office of 'The International Music Perforating Company, Limited' is situated at Tannatt Chambers, High-street, Fremantle, and that such office is accessible to the Public every day… (reference) They manufactured piano rolls.
1905 A MEETING to form a Committee to secure the return of JAMES PRICE, the Ministerial Candidate, will be held at TANNATT CHAMBERS, Hlgh-street, TONIGHT (Wednesday) at 8 o'clock. Authorised by E. W. ROSMAN. (reference)
1909 Auction: Lot 10 of Fremantle Town Lots 17 and 18, deposited plan 1660, having a frontage to High-street of 30.1 links by a depth of 102.5 links. The improvements consist of a modern two-storey Brick and Stone Building with basement, known as "Tannatt Chambers.'' The situation is one of the best in Fremantle, being next the Hotel Fremantle, and only a few yards from Ciiff sttreet. The buildings are well designed for office purposes, and in splendid order. (reference)
1924 TENDERS for RENOVATING TANNATT CHAMBERS, High-st. for the WA Trustee, Executor, and Agency Company. Ltd. ALLEN and NICHOLAS, M's.R.I.A., Architects, etc., 31 Henry -st., Fremantle. (reference)
OCCUPANTS
Lot 18 owners: 1829 - 1837 Lamb, William, 1855 - 1878 Brown, R M B, 1879 Moore, W D
1899 - 1934 Tannatt Chambers
1899 Manthorpe C.E. accountant general agent; Balchin Limited (W.), merchants & importers; Acraman Alfred G. sheriff's officer & commission agent; Fink & Co. wine merchants; Wright Cecil F.B. com. agent)
1899 - 1900 Coronel Mark, manufactures’ agent
1899 - 1925 Luyer Walter E. financial & estate agent
1901 Bing, Robert. J. insurance agent & McClure, John. manufacturers' agent
1900 Strettle, Stratford W. surveyor
1899 - 1901 Wynne, Kyd & Tijou, general commission agents & indentors./Tijou & Co. (A.J.) general commission agents & indentors
1902 Trigg. E. Bailey, architect
1902 White & Co. J.G. customs agent; Lanacashire Insurance Co. L.A. Woolf & Co. agents
1901 - 1902 McKenzie, John. P. customs agent
1903 - 1904 Luttrell H. Gordon, land agt. United Insurance Co. Ltd. (fire & marine) H. Gordon Luttrell, inspector
1903 Royal Exchange Assoc. Co. Ltd.
1902 - 1905 Woolf (L.A.) Weir & Co. accountants
1902 - 1904 Millars Karri & Jarrah Forests Co.
1903 - 1906 Webster J.D. customs & commission agent)
1903 - 1905 Merchant's Assoc. of WA
1904 - 1907 Royal Exchange Assoc. Co. Ltd. J.L.B. Weir, agent
1905 E. W. Rosman, accountant
1906 Foggitt, Jones & Co. Ltd. (Fred C. Hickling, attor.), ham & bacon curers,
1904 - 1907 Weir & Co., J.L.B., (J.L.B. Weir, A.I.A.V), accountants)
1900 - 1907 Wright, Herbet T. hollowware, hardware & galvanized iron merchant
1903 - 1913 Knight & Sons G.C. commission agents
1913 - 1914 Clare & Armstrong, printers "Fremantle Herald," William. E. Clare, editor
1918 Webb, Reginald
1918 - 1919 Col Mut Life Association Soc, S. Cave, rep
1918 - 1921 Clarke, W R, communication & Independent agent; Gippsland & Northern Co-op Selling & Insurance Co. Ltd.
1922 - 1923 Williams, Albert, printer
1921 Gorrie & Son, independent agents
1921 - 1923 Browne, Edward; Browne, Valentine
1911 - 1924 Tickell, Windsor, accountant
1921 - 1925 Heyde, Albert, margarine manufacturer
1926 - 1928 Roberts EV, margarine manufacturer
1929 - 1938 Cressie, D. E., agent and margarine manufacturer
1934 - 1936 Vacant
1936 - 1937 Federated Millers & Mill Employees Association of A/asia (W. A. Branch)
1938 - 1940 Aqua Club
1940 - 1943 Vacant
1944 - 1945 Cole, John
1946 - 1949 De Plnto C.
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