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This magnificent mudbrick and timber home set on approx 31 acres (12.4 ha) is just 5 kms from the heart of Bellingen & yet in a beautifully private world of its own with virtually no neighbors at all. Facing north with amazing views of mountains, timbered hills, fertile flats and the Kalang River it offers 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, & a large open plan living areas featuring 5m timber ridge ceilings. There’s excellent swimming & fishing holes, an Olympic size sand dressage arena, irrigation, rare rainforest species & plenty of playful platypus together with shedding, stables, yards, cattle crush and more.

As you arrive at this property the view is breathtaking & you are naturally drawn to look north at the panoramic surrounds. The mudbrick and timber home is solar passive, open plan and architect designed with rare Chinese green slate tiles throughout the living areas and carpet in all the bedrooms. The 5 m timber ridge ceilings with louvered northern lights, runs almost the full length of the house and provides luxurious head height, warm sun in winter and cool breezes in summer.

The timber kitchen is spacious with plenty of cupboards and drawers, plus pantry and central island bench. There’s an electric cooktop oven in the island bench, a wall mounted electric oven, a large double sink and lots and lots of space! The large (6 x 6m) dining room adjoins the kitchen and bedrooms 3 & 4 are close by, together with the laundry, separate toilet and main bathroom which offers separate bath and shower together with a large timber vanity.

At the centre of this holistic home is the wide entry hall/foyer (3 x 4m) with delightful views through the floor to ceiling glass and the covered outside dining area to those magnificent mountains. The spacious living/family area (10 x 5m) adjoins, also enjoying those verdant views & leading to bedroom 2 and the master bedroom (7 x 4.5m) with large walk in robe and recently renovated ensuite bathroom offering separate bath and shower, dual flush toilet and large timber vanity. While lying in bed you can look to the north east past the majestic red cedar tree to the views beyond and lap up that ‘how lucky am I’ feeling.

The roof is fully insulated, the home was fully re-painted both inside and out in 2008, there’s a 20, 000 gallon, in ground concrete tank and while, from its beautifully elevated position this home enjoys lots of cool summer breezes it is well protected from southerlies.

The privacy factor provided by this property is hard to overstate – just 5 km from the heart of Bellingen on a sealed road with school bus to the front gate, this north facing farm is bound by the river and the road with no neighbors at all! There’s excellent fire protection for this house with plenty of cleared space around it as it enjoys sumptuous views of the rich alluvial river flats, the Kalang River, timbered hills and the mountains beyond.

The pastures here are some of the most fertile you will find having been regularly fertilized and limed and recording close to neutral ph. The property is essentially weed free and is meticulously maintained and can provide a much higher than average carrying capacity. The property is fully fenced, with additional electric wire and for the horses there’s an Olympic size (20 x 60m) sand dressage arena, 2 stall stable and tack room, while for the cattle there’s steel cattle yards with vet crush, shade trees and water and a multipurpose timber shelter in the entrance paddock, as well as a colourbond shed with additional 3000 gallon rainwater tank.

The river frontage here is rare – wrapping around the farm in a delightful curve and providing excellent swimming and fishing holes in a nice deep section of the river with an automatic submersion pump providing beautiful permanent water to the house and cattle/horse troughs via an underground irrigation system. Playful platypus can be often sighted in this very special stretch of river which is a resource that will only get more and more valuable as time goes by.

The trees on this property are another thing again - starting with the very mature, majestic red cedar adjacent to the house and continuing with many other younger red cedars scattered around the farm and along the road frontage. The current owners have undertaken extensive tree planting of over 3000 native North Queensland rare rainforest species and the landscape here includes a Bunya Pine forest, Queensland Kauri Pine forest and lined fence lines, NSW & QLD bush tucker trees, White Beech, QLD Maple, Silky Oak and rare QLD proteacea family trees together with a huge number of assorted highly ornamental trees and palms, a tropical fruit tree orchard and finally a fantastic natural rainforest gulley with advanced River Oaks and Flooded Gums along the river banks.

So, quite a property, unlike any other property in the Bellingen area with a magnificent mudbrick and timber family home, fertile flats, mountains and timbered hill views, unique river frontage, Olympic dressage arena, stables, cattle crush and yards as well as rare rainforest species just 5 km from Bellingen on a fully sealed road.

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