Rare find in Great Location

Location

 Located 40km West of Naracoorte and 8kms South West of Lucindale on the Konetta Road the property’s front title has bitumen road frontage, with the access to the homestead down Mundalena Road which is gravel.

 It is ideally situated centrally in the South East of South Australia close to the township of Lucindale which is a small close rural community, Naracoorte is the closest township with all the large town amenities including a Hospital, shopping centre and many other services.

Property Description

A rare find this close to Lucindale is this 295-acre lifestyle property. The undulating nature of the allotment allows for 360 degree views of the surrounding Lucindale plains.

The property held for 52yrs in a very tightly held district boasting excellent flats and arguably the best high ground in the district in a 600mm rainfall area with regular & generally recognised good & assured winter wet season.

The property has many features including:

• 3-bedroom Stone Home
• Ample Shedding
• Covered Orchard
• Open water reserve
• Excellent grazing flats
• Timber
• And much more.

The house garden has been let-go lately & the house itself though comfortable & practical, could do with a bit of help. House is a 3 BR / 1 Bathroom/ 2 Toilets. Double garage undercover parking.

The house is well situated in the middle of the 295ac with a pleasant outlook, along a well-made road with seclusion. Even locals are not aware of the house.

A good variety of birds are obvious & find refuge here with usually 6 var. of ducks breeding on the swamp & drainage reserve & others about the place, and the first sighting, this year of a spotted nightjar in the pine harvest residue.

This is an ideal hideaway where the present owners have lived & enjoyed the lifestyle presented with a lot of self-sufficiency, aware that it could be a more commercially run.

The Wet land has always been there as early maps show the area as a swamp before the drains went in in 1915 on the southern boundary.

There are 7 stranded coast-lines in the 100km between Naracoorte & the coast & as the land gets wet between those ridges, the water flowed west & then north to escape at Salt Creek in the Coorong. Drains intercepted those flows so swamps were drained & natural diversity suffered.

This reserve displays what was here before & is now a real treasure.

Title Particulars

Section 422, Hundred of Joyce, Area named Lucindale and contained on certificate of title Volume 5940 Folio 750, Consisting of 26.29 Hectares.

• Section48, Hundred of Joyce, Area named Lucindale and contained on certificate of title Volume 5956 Folio 863, Consisting of 93.1 hectares.

• 135 acres - excellent flats with feed. No stock since Nov 2016.
• 54 acres Blue Gum plantation - 20yr old.
• 50 acres Pine harvest residue
• 50 acres - excellent high-ground with feed.
• 5 acres - reserve with permanent wet-land

Improvements

A well-positioned stone home with open living & functional facilities in the middle of 300 acres.

The home features:

• 3 Bedrooms
• Main with walk in robe and bathroom access.
• Open plan lounge/dining
• Kitchen with timber cupboards and electric accessories.
• Double under roof garage
• Large carport area
• 2 x 20’x20’ rooms off carport

Other improvements include:

• Large Machinery Shed - Approx 56 ft x 50 ft Storage Shed
• Sundry small sheds
• Pump shed with pump infrastructure
• 1 x 28,000 Gallon Iron Tank & 1 x 10,000 Gallon Concrete Tank

Orchard

A covered orchard being some 35m x 20m is a true feature of the allotment with many loving hours put into the area.

Fruit trees are producing far more than the farm can use & includes tasty heirloom varieties.

Peach Varieties include Anzac, Elberta, Golden Queen O’Henry, Millicent, Salway, JH Hale, Flavourcrest, Wiggins, Pixie, Sommerset, Loring, Briggs-Red- May, plus others.

Grapes varieties include:- Italia, Ruby Seedless, Blk Muscat, Blk Prince, Sultans, Currant, Perlette, plus others.

Pear trees including :- Glou Morceau, Winter Nellis Josephine, Winter Cole, Fertility, Pound, Dutchess, Beurri Hardy, Beurri Bosc, Doyenne du Comice, Corrella, Packhams, Lemon Bergamont, plus others.

Loquat (grafted to Quince root-stock to prevent trees growing too big) includes: - Enormity, Besstle Brown & Nagisakiwase, all named varieties.

Quince varieties include two different collections bearing well.

Apricot include Blockcot, Divinity, Glengarry, Hunter, Moorpark, Moorpark-early & Trevatt.

Cherries are gone by New-year but as with all fruit, is best left on the tree until it ripens.

Nectarine is still Goldmine although Firebrite & others are there.

Plums include:- Jefferson, Damson, Coes Golden Drop, Coles Golden Gage, Reine-Claude, Angelina, D’Agen, Green Gage Magnum Bonum, President, Splendour, Sugar Plum, Black Amber, Elephant Heart, Formosa, Mariposa, Narrabeen, Ruby Blood, Santa Rosa, Satsuma, Wickson, Wilson plus collections.

Apples, apart from giving away, eating fresh, drying & cooking make a nice cider with 200l/yr the past few years. The mill & press can go with the property.

The 50 plus apple varieties include some eaters named as:- Gala, Pink Lady, Mutsu, Golden Delicious, Braeburn, Cox’s Orange pippin, Old Delicious, Granny Apple Varieties include : Smith, Gravenstein, Jonathon, Nick-a-Jack, Snow, Rome Beauty, Sundowner, Strawberry Pippin, Stone Pippin, Jersey Mac & Molly’s Delicious.

Cider varieties include Stayman Winesap, Cornish Aromatic, London Pippin, Northern Spy, King David, Crab, Golden Harvey, Foxwelp Improved, Brown’s, & Roxbury Russet.

Cookers include Cleopatra, Dunn’s Seedling plus a host of collections from old farms where they were grown in a time when self-sufficiency was a necessity.

Apples need cross pollination, so with such a collection, interesting new varieties could come to light!

Some of the unusual pears collected, (brought to Aust. before quarantine) could be used to make an interesting peri.

Outside the fruit cage is a collection of fig trees producing more & more each year which could be commercialised, as well as boysenberry & youngberry.

Plant Breeding rights.

But hold-on, there is more!

A property of this size allows one to do other things by not only playing around with fruit trees and studying nature & science up close & personal, but to also diversify into innovative & ‘out-of-left-field’ interests, like adapting through selection, an ancient medicinal plant & to be granted a Plant Breeders Right. It is now ready for serious commercialisation.

Withania Somnifera 2002/185

WINTER CHERRY 'Gibbons Australia'

The PBR is being offered with the property.

Information about the prospects of this plant regarding its medicinal usage & reputation can be found on Google.

Licences

Drainage Lease Occupation Licence               No183                                     $105 for 5yrs

Forest Water Licence                         No 240983 110.432ML           $465.04

Rates and Taxes

Sec 48 Hd Joyce         93ha/230ac     vol5956/863 Rates     $1530.00

Sec 422 Hd Joyce        26.25ha/65ac              vol5940/750 Rates     $314.15

ESL                              Sec 48                                                                         $23.50

ESL                              Sec 422                                                                       $ 64.60

Terms and Conditions

Settlement 1st of February 2018

10% Deposit after 2 clear business days from signing of form 1

Inclusions:                   All fixed furniture and chattels.

Other by negotiation.

Forestry Water Licence         

Exclusions :                 All vendors personal effects and chattels.