Description
For Sale Self sufficient lifestyle hobby farm 12kms from Dorrigo.
Your dreams can come true. First time offer of this hand built family home.
32 years chemical free land with large colonial style 2 storey Australian hardwood timber house built in 1982.
Sited on 4.5 hectare or 11 acres of undulating rich basalt soil property. The house has 4 bedrooms and large utility room upstairs, bathroom, septic toilet, laundry, kitchen with Rayburn wood stove with wet back hot water and gas stove, dining and lounge room with open wood fire downstairs. The house was built by owner builder craftsman with locally sourced tallow wood with mixed hardwood flooring and Negro head beech weather boards as cladding no longer available on the Dorrigo Plateau. A 3m timber verandah surrounds the house with a rolled zinc alum roof. This building is built to last a life time and has no white ants.
Water is supplied from a gravity feed rainforest spring and one boundary is a permanent fresh water creek (possible hydro power) and rain water tank. There is a chook house with run and large area for vegy patch at back door.
A large 7 bay machinery shed, many orchard trees including old variety apples and peaches, fenced and watered paddocks with small set of yards and loading ramp. Ideal for a few sheep, goats, cows, horses or your choice. 12 minutes from Dorrigo town and 1 hour from the beautiful clean beaches and rivers around Urunga/Coffs Harbour and many World Heritage National Parks.
The property was run using Biodynamic principles for 19 years 1982 to 2001 then chemically free from 2001 till 2015 and has a Paramagnetic column to enhance biological activity in the soil.
This property would suit a large family or downsize for a back to nature organic lifestyle change. A very quiet location nestled in a tree lined valley surrounded by an abundance of flora and fauna. Close to bus runs to Coffs Harbour, Armidale, Dorrigo, Public and Catholic school and Chrysalis Steiner School at Thora.
Your dreams can come true. First time offer of this hand built family home.
32 years chemical free land with large colonial style 2 storey Australian hardwood timber house built in 1982.
Sited on 4.5 hectare or 11 acres of undulating rich basalt soil property. The house has 4 bedrooms and large utility room upstairs, bathroom, septic toilet, laundry, kitchen with Rayburn wood stove with wet back hot water and gas stove, dining and lounge room with open wood fire downstairs. The house was built by owner builder craftsman with locally sourced tallow wood with mixed hardwood flooring and Negro head beech weather boards as cladding no longer available on the Dorrigo Plateau. A 3m timber verandah surrounds the house with a rolled zinc alum roof. This building is built to last a life time and has no white ants.
Water is supplied from a gravity feed rainforest spring and one boundary is a permanent fresh water creek (possible hydro power) and rain water tank. There is a chook house with run and large area for vegy patch at back door.
A large 7 bay machinery shed, many orchard trees including old variety apples and peaches, fenced and watered paddocks with small set of yards and loading ramp. Ideal for a few sheep, goats, cows, horses or your choice. 12 minutes from Dorrigo town and 1 hour from the beautiful clean beaches and rivers around Urunga/Coffs Harbour and many World Heritage National Parks.
The property was run using Biodynamic principles for 19 years 1982 to 2001 then chemically free from 2001 till 2015 and has a Paramagnetic column to enhance biological activity in the soil.
This property would suit a large family or downsize for a back to nature organic lifestyle change. A very quiet location nestled in a tree lined valley surrounded by an abundance of flora and fauna. Close to bus runs to Coffs Harbour, Armidale, Dorrigo, Public and Catholic school and Chrysalis Steiner School at Thora.