The Pensioner Guard Cottage is a historic building in the Perth suburb of Bassendean, Western Australia.

It was built with a group of three other similar cottages in Bassendean whose purpose was to house Pensioner Guards.

The land was purchased by the Town of Bassendean in 1988 for the cottage and adjacent house to be restored and made into a museum.

The sale of the Pensioner Guard Cottage created public disagreement among some members of the Bassendean community.

Part of their role in the colony was to help maintain law and order, and serve as a presence of authority in towns with a convict depot.

The Pensioners worked on the land and supported themselves, living in two roomed cottages built by convicts or ticket of leave men.

In August 1855, Du Cane wrote in a report that 67 ticket of leave men were occupied with burning bricks and sawing timber for the cottages.

[1]: 20 [2] John Law Davis was a Pensioner Guard who arrived in Western Australia in 1853, aged 26 years old.

Either Brockman or the Browns built a separate, five room bungalow-style house next to the cottage in 1893, the two building linked by a verandah.

They occurred between 1991 and 1993, during which, the verandah connecting the two buildings was removed, and various parts of the cottage were reverted back to their original state, such as the floor level, which had been raised at some point.

[1]: 25–26, 28 [4] During 2021, the Town of Bassendean decided to sell the Pensioner Guard Cottage because it could not afford to repair and maintain it.

The BHS opposed selling the site to the Museum of Perth because it was worried that the land would be subdivided if that occurred.

It has influences from the Victorian and Georgian architectural styles, in the "gentleness of scale, simple rectangular form and symmetrical facades, and traditional bearing walls".