Garroorigang was built by Charles Thomas to serve as an Inn on the road to the southern gold fields at the height of Goulburn's emerging importance as Australia's first inland City.

The beautifully proportioned brick and stone building, with its unusual stable wing, remains virtually unchanged despite its 150 year history.

Its life as an Inn witnessed the Araluen gold rush, the depredations of Ben Hall's gang of bushrangers and the coming of the railway to Goulburn. This latter event and the petering out of the great alluvial goldfields led Thomas to close the Inn in 1868 and put it on the market.

Apart from the now disused cellar, and the large English hand - pump installed by Thomas on the courtyard well to water the teams, evidence of the Homestead's past as an Inn has faded over the years.