Phone enquiry code for this property: 2228

History
Chateau Nous is a heritage-listed villa that was built for dentist Dr. George Stewart and his wife Eileen in 1938. Chateau Nous was designed by architect DFW Roberts and was considered ultra-modern (ie unusual) for the time. The Functionalist exterior and Art Deco interior would surely have had tongues wagging in the conservative up-market suburb of Ascot.
Original inclusions were servants’ quarters and an electric dumb waiter to deliver food to an upstairs breakfast room. Later, a billiard room and a concrete air-raid shelter were added. A secret tunnel is located from the air-raid shelter to the original garage that runs underneath the house!
New owners in 1986 added a tennis court and swimming pool, as well as a new master bedroom and ensuite, and undertook considerable remodeling of the kitchen and family room. The house has only had three owners, the third owners buying the property in March 2004 whom also undertook renovations.

This two-storey rendered masonry house, sits on a level southeast corner site in Ascot. The building shows a strong Functionalist approach in its design, with architectural and decorative elements including brick banding, which is now painted over, curved corner walls and windows, glass bricks and contrasting vertical and horizontal elements.
The entrance is on the south, recessed below a flat concrete awning supported by large concrete brackets. Directly above is a projecting angled alcove, with windows to the first floor, which culminates at the parapet. The building has terracotta tiled roofdecks with solid upstands and metal tubular railings to the southeast and northwest. The north side of the building sits on a face brick base with a dining terrace on the northeast, below the main bedroom, which overlooks the lawn tennis court to the north. The entrance to the subfloor air-raid shelter is located on the east below a projecting rounded pediment.
The building has metal framed casement windows, some of which have geometric leadlight panels with some windows set in curved walls. French doors, of both metal and timber frames, open onto decks which are shaded by recent metal framed electric awnings. Awnings also shade windows to the west on the first floor. A recent timber framed carport with brick bases is attached to the western face, and trellises built in the same style are located at the south entry and at the north overlooking the tennis court and the pool pavilion.
Internally, walls are plastered with decorative plaster ceilings. An Art Deco influence is evident with a nautical design, consisting of three concentric circles with intersecting rippled or straight lines, which is used in the wrought iron stair railing and repeated in the leadlight French doors opening off the foyer, is outlined in brass strips in the main bathroom’s aggregate floor and is depicted on the chrome hood of the fireplace.
The foyer has a marble tiled floor which continues into the lounge and dining rooms. The entrance door has a sandblasted panel with the inscription CHATEAU NOUS.
The lounge has a corner brick fireplace with a chrome hood and mirrored panels above the mantelpiece. The south wall has twin rows of vertical glass bricks and the east wall is rounded. The original garage is used as a guest bedroom, but retains the timber and glass garage doors which have also been reproduced for the more recent garage located on the northwest.
The former servants quarters are used for an informal television room. The study extension is accessed from the family room, the junction of which has a lightwell which provides natural light and ventilation to the main bathroom above.
The projecting angled alcove above the entry is located in the first floor breakfast room where you will find the electric dumb waiter cabinet. The main bedroom extension has relocated the original bedroom window to the north wall and has a curved east wall with replica leadlight windows.
The first floor bedrooms facing southeast boast city views and during dusk the Gate Way Bridge is illuminated in its glory.

The grounds include:-
- In-ground concrete swimming pool to the southeast
- A pool pavilion with an outdoor kitchen and BBQ area including stainless steal dishwasher and outdoor shower
room.
- Lawn tennis court to the north
- A low rendered masonry garden wall runs along both street frontages with a higher masonry wall screening the
pool area.
- Beautiful Rose gardens and poinciana trees providing shade along the footpath

Phone enquiry code for this property: 2228