Le Fanu House

Le Fanu House is a large Federation Queen Anne style single-storey home located in Salvado Street, Cottesloe, Western Australia.

Banksia (later Le Fanu) was built as a private residence for Henry Diggins Holmes, his wife Marion and their three children, at the corner of Salvado Road and Marine Parade, close to the dunes of Cottesloe Beach.

[5] In September 2010, the Town of Cottesloe granted approval for owners S. Wyatt and S. Gibson to undertake extensive alterations and additions to the 17-room house,[6] at an estimated cost of $6 million, to enable it to be restored for residential use.

[4] The proposed renovations include the demolition of four rooms, a northern verandah enclosed after World War II and a post World War II ablution block, the construction of an underground car park beneath the demolition area, and the restoration of the ballroom, dining room and study, with the kitchen being partially demolished and adapted as a guest suite.

There is a lower floor on north side.The house is categorised as being in Federation Style, with a Queen Anne turret, in an otherwise Romanesque form.