Australia’s colonial cottages are a challenge in the twenty-first century. They are rare, often charming traces of the settler history of our cities and towns. They are also places to reflect on the complications of colonial home building and making here. Then, there is their reality: small, compartmentalized rooms encased in solid masonry shells – no matter how soft and crumbling the bricks – not easy to move to around, nor to extend.
Harriet’s House is one of those cottages, located in central Launceston and home of Harriet Edquist, one of Australia’s most respected design historians and educators. Harriet worked with Liz Walsh and Alex
