November 14, 2025 • 4 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Cam. You remember a few weeks ago I went out
to the Yas Valley to the Music in the Meadows event,
which was a CSO performance. Kira and Moosa, local singer
was performing there too. Out at this spectacular gem of
a homestead that I didn't even know existed. My sister
lives in Dalton nearby, and she said she'd driven past
(00:20):
it ages ago when it was really before it had
this epic transformation, and it's gained all this attention since then.
And I went out to this event. I said, we've
got to find out more about it, find out how
it all came about, how this has all happened. And
Lee Pinda is the director at at High Claire Legal morning.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Good morning, Renee, how are you good?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Thank you so much for joining us. I'm so stoked
we get to chat to you more about this. Tell
us a little bit how this all came about the
original homestead and a little bit about the history of what.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
It used to be. Sure, okay, well, Edward, I moved
here or just over five years ago, from the Hunter
and Sydney. We landed first week of COVID and we
decided to renovate this beauty. Shees originally called Blackburn, now
called High Clear Farm. It was part of a sixty
acre sheep station and it's described as a boom time
(01:14):
Italianate homestead. But it's separated from its acres now. But
it was a prosperous sheep station for over one hundred years.
But then it's now on ninety six acres, so we
had to give it some love.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
And so, yeah, tell us when you sort of rolled
in and you drove into the driveway and jumped out
of the car, what did you see then?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
And what is it now? Sure? Well, at the end
of bushfires, so of course was completely dried out and desiccated.
We had the verandah was derelict and collapsing. All the
gardens were overgrown and fences were down, and BirdLife was everywhere.
Though I mean that the park parkland areas, and the
(01:55):
bush beyond and the lake there was a huge lake overgrown,
couldn't see it. But all those things just to us.
But the house, she was an item of beauty, just
as you said, Renee. You see the back of it
from the road, you don't see the front of it.
The tower is just phenomenal, Oh it is.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
It's absolutely a sight to see. That's for sure. Has
there been much interest in the restoration of the homestead?
I know you guys were on restoration Australia.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Yes, yeah, so look that's called Bango Boom Time f
so four of the current series and that recorded three
years of a five year journey. So we just finished
doing the restoration of the Verandah. But the interest has
been huge since then, so we launched fifteenth of March,
so we'd restored it over that period. So it's largely
(02:44):
it's a niner of squameter house and ten bedrooms, eight bathrooms.
It didn't have a bathroom working at all when we
were here, so what we really had to do was
refinish it and repair it. But it was built by
a guy called George witt and Will and his wife
Jeanette back in eighteen ninety five and he had come
from Scotland brought his adult family with him so built
(03:05):
the place with apartments. So in many ways it was
really modern because each of those four adult children had
a bed room in an on swite sorry a bedroom
and a living space and what they did is he
has had interconnecting doors, so it was perfect. We just
(03:25):
had to polish her.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Yeah, and you've done, You've polished her and then some
let me tell you that, Yeah exactly, Lee, And I
remember when I was at the music event a few
weeks ago, a couple of people there mentioned that you
guys picked up a bunch of HIA awards this year.
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
We certainly did so that was It was a busy
month for us. So just before that we had New
South Wales National Trust at and the night before that
we won HIA Country Home Heritage Renovation overall and Heritage
Renovation over one million. We cleared out all three.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah, so good. Yeah, which does not surprise me at
all from what I got to see. And I'd love
to have a close look at the inside one daily.
We could chat to you about this for so long
that we are we are going to have to leave
it there. But thank you so much for painting that
picture and sharing it with us. People definitely need to
go online and have a look and thank you so
much for your time.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Hi. You can find us on the socials and also website.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Yeah, people definitely should thank you so much. Lee Pinda,
who's the High Claire director there, Lucky said, just look
it up online. It is amazing,
Cam. You remember a few weeks ago I went out
to the Yas Valley to the Music in the Meadows event,
which was a CSO performance. Kira and Moosa, local singer
was performing there too. Out at this spectacular gem of
a homestead that I didn't even know existed. My sister
lives in Dalton nearby, and she said she'd driven past
(00:20):
it ages ago when it was really before it had
this epic transformation, and it's gained all this attention since then.
And I went out to this event. I said, we've
got to find out more about it, find out how
it all came about, how this has all happened. And
Lee Pinda is the director at at High Claire Legal morning.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Good morning, Renee, how are you good?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Thank you so much for joining us. I'm so stoked
we get to chat to you more about this. Tell
us a little bit how this all came about the
original homestead and a little bit about the history of what.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
It used to be. Sure, okay, well, Edward, I moved
here or just over five years ago, from the Hunter
and Sydney. We landed first week of COVID and we
decided to renovate this beauty. Shees originally called Blackburn, now
called High Clear Farm. It was part of a sixty
acre sheep station and it's described as a boom time
(01:14):
Italianate homestead. But it's separated from its acres now. But
it was a prosperous sheep station for over one hundred years.
But then it's now on ninety six acres, so we
had to give it some love.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
And so, yeah, tell us when you sort of rolled
in and you drove into the driveway and jumped out
of the car, what did you see then?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
And what is it now? Sure? Well, at the end
of bushfires, so of course was completely dried out and desiccated.
We had the verandah was derelict and collapsing. All the
gardens were overgrown and fences were down, and BirdLife was everywhere.
Though I mean that the park parkland areas, and the
(01:55):
bush beyond and the lake there was a huge lake overgrown,
couldn't see it. But all those things just to us.
But the house, she was an item of beauty, just
as you said, Renee. You see the back of it
from the road, you don't see the front of it.
The tower is just phenomenal, Oh it is.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
It's absolutely a sight to see. That's for sure. Has
there been much interest in the restoration of the homestead?
I know you guys were on restoration Australia.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Yes, yeah, so look that's called Bango Boom Time f
so four of the current series and that recorded three
years of a five year journey. So we just finished
doing the restoration of the Verandah. But the interest has
been huge since then, so we launched fifteenth of March,
so we'd restored it over that period. So it's largely
(02:44):
it's a niner of squameter house and ten bedrooms, eight bathrooms.
It didn't have a bathroom working at all when we
were here, so what we really had to do was
refinish it and repair it. But it was built by
a guy called George witt and Will and his wife
Jeanette back in eighteen ninety five and he had come
from Scotland brought his adult family with him so built
(03:05):
the place with apartments. So in many ways it was
really modern because each of those four adult children had
a bed room in an on swite sorry a bedroom
and a living space and what they did is he
has had interconnecting doors, so it was perfect. We just
(03:25):
had to polish her.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Yeah, and you've done, You've polished her and then some
let me tell you that, Yeah exactly, Lee, And I
remember when I was at the music event a few
weeks ago, a couple of people there mentioned that you
guys picked up a bunch of HIA awards this year.
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
We certainly did so that was It was a busy
month for us. So just before that we had New
South Wales National Trust at and the night before that
we won HIA Country Home Heritage Renovation overall and Heritage
Renovation over one million. We cleared out all three.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah, so good. Yeah, which does not surprise me at
all from what I got to see. And I'd love
to have a close look at the inside one daily.
We could chat to you about this for so long
that we are we are going to have to leave
it there. But thank you so much for painting that
picture and sharing it with us. People definitely need to
go online and have a look and thank you so
much for your time.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Hi. You can find us on the socials and also website.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Yeah, people definitely should thank you so much. Lee Pinda,
who's the High Claire director there, Lucky said, just look
it up online. It is amazing,
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