Derelict Delight Traditional Cache

Pheobe Abbey's farmhouse, a limestone, shingle and iron roofed farmhouse in the Victorian Georgian style, has cultural heritage significance as a surviving farmhouse in the urban area, a good and complex example of the type and has historic value for its associations with the Abbeys who were early Colonial arrivals and farmers in the district.

-It is a rare example of an 1860's building which has survived in the town of Busselton.

-It is an example of the expertise of the early builders in the Swan River Colony and the Busselton district.

-It is associated with Christopher Weetman, an early master builder and the Abbey family, one of the early pioneering families in the district.

-The building demonstrates physically the extent of the Busselton townsite in the 1860's.

The Abbeys were early farmers in the Vasse district. Nathaniel Abbey built the place in the 1870s. The Abbleys were irish immigrants who arrived in the Colony in the early 1840s. Thomas Abbey arrived in the Colony and worked for John Bussell at Vasse and later leased land at Wonnerup, then settled near Broadwater.