Year Completed: 2008
Awards: RAIA (WA) Architecture Award: Conservation |2008|
Awards: RAIA (WA) Architecture Award: Conservation |2008|
Philip Griffiths (Design Architect & Heritage Consultant)
Brandon Pratley, Calum Chalmers, Olivia Burridge & Alistair Ravenscroft (Project Architects)
Consultants:
Structural:
Rob Rowbottom (BG&E)
Ian Maitland (Maitland Consulting Structural Engineers)
Hydraulics:
Michael Jarrad (Steve Paul & Partners)
Paul White (PM White & Partners)
Electrcial:
Mike Sage (Sage Consulting)
WGE
Builder:
Callan Constructions, Freo Constructions, Peter Hunt Builder & Sizer Builders
Rottnest Island was settled early in the life of the Swan River Colony, but was resumed as a ‘native prison’ in 1839. From then until the prison closed, it was used as a base for a pilot service, light stations, farming, salt production, and Governor’s summer residence. Rottnest cottages span a number of these themes namely the ‘native prison’ and pilot service. They have been used for holiday accommodation since the island was opened to excursionists and following the failure of the first campsite at Bickley Bay.
In 1994 a heritage assessment and conservation plan was developed. The cottage group above the sea wall was assessed as having rarity value at a national level and the buildings, some of which date from 1840s are very early representative structures from Swan River Colony times.
Philip Griffiths and later Philip Griffiths Architects have been the architects for all of the conservation and adaptations works for the group, and work on other heritage structures on the island, with involvement in traffic management planning, landscape master planning, interpretation planning, and being solely responsible for the conservation and adaptation works.
