Ballandean Homestead, Heritage-listed homestead in Ballandean, Queensland.

Ballandean Homestead is a heritage-listed pastoral station at Ballandean in the Southern Downs Region, Queensland. Its c. 1870 residence stands with a detached kitchen, creamery, killing shed, milking shed, yards, stables and remnants of a blacksmith's shed and forge. It was the third head station built on the Ballandean run, and timber for the dwelling was cut on the property, with limestone for the mortar quarried from a Ballandean paddock.

Ballandean run was established around 1840 in the New England district, before that area became part of Queensland; some reports claim occupation as early as 1839. Robert Ramsay Mackenzie held an interest by 1844, when his bankruptcy papers recorded 400 cattle on the run under manager Henry Hedger Nicol. Nicol received a depasturing licence in November 1845 and an official lease in 1851, and the property's success as a pastoral holding is attributed to him.

The name Ballandean comes from the pastoral run, and the homestead's fabric shows how the station worked: a c. 1870 residence, a detached kitchen, a creamery, a killing shed, a milking shed, yards and stables. Donald Gunn, visiting as a child around 1868, recalled it as one of the best houses in the district, crediting Nicol rather than Robertson with the improvements.

The homestead stands on the southern side of the surveyed road through Ballandean, with the woolshed a short distance south and the stockyards to the southwest. The buildings are scattered across open paddock country, so allow time to walk between the house, detached kitchen, creamery and sheds. The road gate Fletcher asked for lies on the east side of his paddock.

John William Luke, manager from about 1898 and owner from 1906, stocked Ballandean with merino sheep, and the run's wool clip once fetched a record price. Its reputation rested on the property being free of pests common in other pastures. Luke also ran ponies and Devon cattle, and later chaired the Stanthorpe Shire Council.