Location:
The property at is situated approximately 6km out of town on the Northwestern side of Charters Towers, off Johnson Road.
Services:
Situated about 6km from Charters Towers the property accesses all the services of a regional town with a population of approximately 9000 people.
Schooling, both primary and secondary, are a feature of the Charters Towers community with the town boasting three Private Schools, the State High School and three State Primary Schools. Charters Towers is an historic city established in the gold rush of the 1880's and still services the large Gold Mining and Grazing Industries of Charters Towers Region. For cattleman, the weekly liveweight selling centre in Charters Towers, Live Export ex Townsville (110klm) and Townsville meatworks are all major attractions for this location. Townsville is a vibrant city of approximately people 200,000 with diverse industry and opportunity for employment, business, and higher education.
Area & Tenure:
Total 11.37 ha (28 acres) in one freehold title.
Zoning Rural and Rural Activity
House:
The property has an older cottage style house on the property. It has two bedrooms, a kitchen, lounge, shower, and toilet. The house is quite basic, old and in need of repairs.
Sheds :
The property has three sheds. There is a medium sized hay storage style shed, the second shed is a carport style shed with power and the third is a small lawn locker style shed. These sheds need some repairs. Hay shed - 12 metres x 8 metres x 3.9 metres high.
Garden & Chook Yard & Pig Pen :
The property is surrounded by some lovely shade trees and scrubs. There is also a Chook Yard that hasn't been used for the last few years, but it could be used once again for chooks. Also, there is a pig pen that needs repairs but could also be used to fatten a pig or two.
Country:
This property is located on some of the richest soil types in Charters Towers. The whole property is self-mulching black and chocolate soils. This highly fertile land could be seasonally farmed or improved with quality grasses and legumes such as Buffel, forage sorghum and progrades-desmanthus. Currently the pastures consist of mostly native grasses with some small patches of Buffel grass and silk sorghum. The trees consist of grey box gums, bauhinia, Brigalow, Iron bark and other native gum trees.
Water, Power & Rubbish Collection :
The property has filtered town water to the house. There are several cased bore holes, but the owner has no knowledge of the depths and quality (The current owner has never used them). It is connected to town, 240 volts mains power. As well as the town water, there is a very large quality dam that is approximately 70 x 100 metres in diameter. It has a large catchment area, and it holds water all year round.
Yards:
There are no cattle yards or horse yards on the property.
Fencing :
The property is boundary fenced using 3 barbed wire construction. Some fences are brand new.
Inclusions :
The owner is selling the property with a few valuable items such as-
A Red 885 International 85 Hp CASE Tractor + Slasher & Rippers.
A 200 Litre 12-volt Silvan Spray Unit (Which can inter changed to either boom spray or manually spray using a spray gun).
Unregistered White Holden Jackeroo Wagon V6 Petrol & Gas. (Not going needs a new fuel pump). Is approximately a 1993 model.
Poly Water Trough
Electric Cement Mixer
Disclaimer: The above report has been prepared by Slaney & Co based on information supplied by the property owner and other credible sources. Every endeavour has been made to verify its accuracy. Whilst we trust the information to be correct, we make no warranties nor guarantees, and prospective purchasers must rely on their own enquiries & research. © Copyright Slaney & Co
