European House #IL10, the Davies House, Cheung Chau [????-????]

[Updated 20/11/25]

A large, attractive and unusual looking house, built of locally quarried granite, flat roofed with a short verandah at the front, and a small cottage (for domestics?) at the rear. The owners preferred to turn their backs on the views of Kwun Yam Wan and the house faced south to the sun, with views over the island.

This was a Canton Villages Mission house, referred to as 'the Davies House'; thought to belong to Rev Herbert and Margaret Davies, who served the CVM in Canton in the 20s and 30s.

Like other CVM houses #9 and #10, the house suffered during the war as it was stripped of all wood by the locals for fuel and bombed by the Japanese as being western-owned.

Now it is the telephone exchange.