Benacre, Heritage house in Glen Osmond, Adelaide, Australia

Benacre is a house at 6 Benacre Place in Glen Osmond, South Australia. G.F. Shipster built it in 1844 as a single-storeyed house; in the mid-1870s Thomas Graves added rooms, a cellar and a top storey. The property includes stables and a coach house built by William Bickford after 1846, now registered on the Australian Register of the National Estate.

G.F. Shipster built the house in 1844, but Thomas Graves expanded it in the 1870s with additional rooms and a cellar. Politician John Lewis later acquired the property and left his mark during his ownership from 1906 to 1923.

Henry Scott, mayor of Adelaide, and his wife Emily Gooch bought the property in the mid-1870s and named it after Benacre Hall in Benacre, Suffolk, her ancestral home. The childless couple lived here for some 30 years and were known as generous hosts who held many social events at the house.

The house is not freely accessible, and visitors must obtain permission from the current property owners to enter the grounds. Historical information and heritage listing details can be found through the South Australian Heritage Register.

Thomas Graves planted an arboretum at Benacre with Moreton Bay figs, pines, cedars and cypresses from Norway, India, Lebanon, Japan and Norfolk Island; the 1905 History of Glen Osmond called it second only to the Adelaide Botanic Garden. The 1970 auction notice also mentions a two-storeyed stone mews.