Kilcoy Homestead, Heritage homestead in Winya, Somerset Region, Australia

Kilcoy Homestead is a single-storeyed brick residence built c.1857 for Louis Hope, with a hipped corrugated iron roof and an L-shaped plan. It stands at the end of a ridge north of Kilcoy overlooking Kilcoy Creek, approached from the southwest by a driveway along the ridge top. Verandahs with timber posts and unlined iron skillion roofs surround it, and the walls are English Bond brickwork.

Brothers Evan and Colin Mackenzie took up the Kilcoy run as a sheep station in 1841, erecting a slab hut that year. A brick dwelling with five rooms replaced it in 1844. The present brick homestead was built c.1857 for Louis Hope, who had acquired the run in 1853; the 1844 house was demolished after it was completed.

The name Kilcoy comes from the Mackenzies' home parish of Kilcoy in Scotland. William Butler, manager from 1871 for over fifty years, built good relations with local Aboriginal people; a Kilcoy street and a monument were named for him after his death. The Kennedy family has owned the homestead since 1924.

The homestead sits along Kilcoy-Murgon Road and is currently a private residence not open to casual visitors. Anyone hoping to look around or take photographs should contact the owners beforehand to ask permission.

The 1844 brick dwelling that preceded the present house had a kitchen standing about 40 yards behind it, possibly the original 1841 slab hut reused; it was demolished around 1928. The 1844 residence itself was white-ant ridden and is understood to have been pulled down once the c.1857 house was finished.