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6.2                   ALDERLY COTTAGE
LOCATION                    15 Mitti Street, Little Cove, Noosa Heads

TENURE                      Freehold. 6RP214449

DATES                       1947

DESCRIPTION                 The building is a two-storey, ‘Tudor style’ cottage featuring the typical jettying of the upper
                            story over the entrance. The house has a bloodwood (Eucalyptus gummifera) shingle-roof
                            and sits on a low foundation wall of bricks and local stones.17




6.2.1       BRIEF HISTORY
Alderly cottage was constructed in 1947 by Harold Davis and Juan Carl (Jack) Grummette on land, which was owned by
Davis, but transferred to Grummette in the same year.
Harold (Harry) Davis came to Noosa from Brisbane in 1946 having purchased seven acres of land at Little Cove earlier in
1944. He was joined shortly after by Grummette (a wartime friend) who assisted in the design and construction of several
houses including Alderly cottage. Davis’s initial intention was to build a modern ‘Tudor Village’, and sell the houses and
land to interested buyers18. He constructed two buildings in the Tudor style before commencing Alderly. He built ‘Tudor
House’, a small two-bedroom cottage for his parents, Ernest Francis and Mary Davis, and later built ‘Tudor Cottage’ (a
large three bedroom cottage) for his own family.19 Both were on nearby subsections and were demolished by developers
in the 1980s.
After 1947 Grummette owned the land jointly with Beryl Watt, and lived alone in Alderly for two years after its completion
before selling the property to George Bernard Mason.




17
  A series of photographs taken in the late 1940s shortly after the construction of the cottage is held in the Noosa Shire Museum,
Pomona.
18
     Decima Davis, transcript of interview, Noosa Shire Museum, NSM2000; Item TS0001, p. 3.
19
     Decima Davis pers.comm., 2000.