All that's missing is Hugh Jackman in a pair of RM Williams: Miner's cottage on the market for $220k

This antique miner’s cottage could be an Aussie movie set, and the buyer of the $220,000 property in Central West NSW is in for a plot twist.

The frozen-in-time shack, in Home Rule, couldn’t be in a more desirable area, just minutes from a cluster of the state’s best wineries.

The interior is a snapshot of 19th-century life on the backbone of the land. Cinematically staged, all that is missing is Hugh Jackman kicking off a pair of R. M. Williams.

$220,000

81 Stanley Street, Home Rule NSW 2850

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The armchair sits by a peeling fireplace, and a desk is dressed with a sprig of eucalyptus. Aged floors and ceiling beams are reminders of its history as a sturdy and cosy family home.

It also has a bohemian history. The vendor’s mother is an artist and lived at the property as a young woman, says listing agent Nicole Stearman Raine & Horne Gulgong.

Artists, glassmakers, musicians and poets – part of the counterculture – flocked here in the 1970s.

The buyer will acquire a block of 3687 square metres and access to some of the finest cellar doors in the Mudgee wine country.

The cottage will need to be retained and could be rejuvenated into an Airbnb for winery-hopping visitors.

“To maintain the dwelling entitlement with the block, you’ve got to keep the miner’s cottage,” Stearman says. “So it will suit someone who loves old, vintage buildings, who would love to do it up, and have a weekender in that area.

“Heading into Mudgee, you can stop off at any number of wineries on Henry Dawson Drive.

“Across the board, we do pretty well. A lot of people want to live here – it’s just a beautiful space and area to live in.”

The gold rush town of Home Rule sits between Gulgong and Mudgee, about 300 kilometres northwest of Sydney, and was once a thriving base for 20,000 miners.

Those workers slowly disappeared over the generations, but the vineyard population boomed.

Just south of Home Rule, in the towns of Eurundere and Mudgee, are Rosby Wines, Bunnamagoo Estate, Lowe Family Wine Co, 791 Estate, McIntosh Estate, Yeates Wines, Heslop Wines and ThumbPrint Wines, among many others.

There are too few sales to produce a median house price for Home Rule. However, Domain data shows the median house price in the Lithgow-Mudgree region is $630,000. Mudgee is about 30 kilometres south of Home Rule.

Stearman and her colleague Olivia Alexopoulos of Raine & Horne Gulgong are managing the private treaty campaign.

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