Wallcliffe House, Heritage building in Prevelly, Western Australia

Wallcliffe House was a two-storey homestead of limestone quarried on the property, pit-sawn jarrah and a shingle and corrugated iron roof, built between 1857 and 1865 in the Victorian-Georgian style near Prevelly. A major bushfire destroyed the homestead in November 2011.

George Holland Knapton built the homestead for Alfred and Ellen Bussell between 1857 and 1865, and it anchored their 24,000-hectare estate running from Cowaramup to the Donnelly River. The Bussells lost the property in 1896 when the Union Bank of Australia foreclosed and it passed to farmer Richard Gale. Filumena Terry, née Bussell, bought back the house and 16 hectares in 1910/11, and the family held it until 1987. A bushfire destroyed the homestead in November 2011.

The house was built of limestone quarried on the property and pit-sawn jarrah, materials that tied the Bussell homestead to its own land. The name Wallcliffe was later carried by the surrounding locality and gives its name to Wallcliffe Road near Prevelly. The Bussell and Terry families held the property until 1987, and the coastal portion sold in 1953 became the camping area that grew into Prevelly.

Wallcliffe House is privately owned and not open to visitors; the homestead was destroyed by a bushfire in November 2011, so there is no interior to tour. The site lies near Prevelly at the mouth of the Margaret River, and the surrounding bushland is exposed to heat and fire risk, so any viewing of the area is best done in cooler hours.

The 1876 rescue happened at Calgardup Bay, not at the house: Grace Bussell, then about 16, and stockman Sam Isaacs rode into the surf to bring ashore survivors of the SS Georgette, roughly 50 people. A statue of Grace and her horse stands in the region. The homestead itself was destroyed by bushfire in November 2011.