Le Fanu House, Federation Queen Anne residence in Cottesloe, Australia

Le Fanu House is a large single-storey Federation Queen Anne style home on Salvado Street in Cottesloe, built around 1893 of dressed limestone. Gables on all four sides carry Tudor details, and a bay window on the south-east ends in a conical turret with a finial. Verandahs on simple square timber posts surround the house, which has a lower floor on its north side and a garden enclosed by a limestone wall.

The house was built in 1893 for Henry Diggins Holmes, a manager of the Bank of Western Australia. Between 1898 and 1900, architect Percy William Harrison carried out extensive renovations.

The house was renamed Le Fanu in 1945 after Henry Frewen Le Fanu, then Archbishop of Perth, when the Perth Diocesan Trustees bought it. It returned to private ownership in 1973. Visitors can spot the conical turret with its finial on the south-east bay window, and the limestone garden wall along Salvado Street.

Le Fanu House is a private residence and cannot be visited inside; it is best seen from Salvado Street, where the limestone garden wall and the south-east bay window with its conical turret face the street. The house stands near the corner of Salvado Road and Marine Parade, a short walk from the dunes of Cottesloe Beach.

The house was originally called Banksia, after the banksia trees around Cottesloe, and was renamed Le Fanu in 1945 after Archbishop Henry Frewen Le Fanu when the Perth Diocesan Trustees bought it. A 2008 newspaper report noted its asbestos roof, rotten timbers and collapsing limestone walls.