Binnawee Homestead, Heritage-listed disused homestead in Mudgee, New South Wales, Australia
Binnawee Homestead is a two-storey Georgian homestead at 111 Lester's Lane, Mudgee, built between 1850 and 1900. It was initially called "LoisAlle" and is now disused. The house stands on land first granted to Henry Cox in 1834.
Henry Cox received the land grant in 1834. William Lewis, who bought the Cullenbone property including Binnawee in 1852, is believed to have built the two-storey Georgian homestead, first called "LoisAlle". After Lewis's insolvency in 1862 the Blackman brothers bought it; George Henry Cox absorbed it into Piambong in 1878, and from 1900 George Stewart lived there as "squire of Binnawee". It joined the State Heritage Register on 9 June 2009.
The name Binnawee appears in legal documents by 1898, when John Turner McRae, manager of the Piambong holding, was recorded "as of Binnawee"; the source does not say who chose it. The property was run as a sheep run with some cattle, and Charles and Bruce Lester also bred racehorses there.
Binnawee Homestead is a disused homestead on private land at 111 Lester's Lane, outside Mudgee; it is not a staffed visitor site, so access to the house and grounds depends on the landowner. The property is listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register, and its condition should be confirmed locally before any visit is planned.
The structure preserves its original Georgian-era window glazing, offering rare insight into how 19th-century craftspeople produced and fitted glass in Australia. These surviving elements provide a direct connection to period construction practices.
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