Salisbury Court, Historic house in Rose Bay, New South Wales, Australia
Salisbury Court, also known as Rose Bay Lodge and originally Rose Bay Cottage, is a heritage-listed former homestead and apartment building at 1–7 Salisbury Road, Rose Bay. The original cottage was designed by John Verge and built from 1834, with later work continuing to 1915. It is the oldest surviving house in the Municipality of Woollahra and is now privately owned.
James Holt commissioned John Verge to plan a cottage at Rose Bay in September 1834, and building began that November. Daniel Cooper Jnr. occupied it from about 1844, and his eldest son was born there in 1848; by 1855 the house was called Rose Bay Lodge. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.
The house carries two names from its past: Rose Bay Cottage, used in 1830s and 1840s advertisements and birth notices, and Rose Bay Lodge, the name in use by 1855. It is the oldest surviving house in the Municipality of Woollahra, and the property remains privately owned.
The property at 1–7 Salisbury Road is privately owned and not open to the public; the cottage and its garden are seen only from the street. The site lies in Rose Bay, within Woollahra Municipality, and is listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register, where the entry can be consulted online for details of the 1834 cottage and later additions.
Rose Bay Cottage was designed by John Verge in 1834 for James Holt, manager of Cooper & Levey, and the Sydney Gazette reported that November that Holt had begun building a commodious residence near Point Piper. Sir Daniel Cooper's eldest son, also Daniel, is said to have been born here in 1848.
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