SUMMARY
Belvedere is a productive farming and grazing property of just over 1,000 acres situated in the popular and tightly held area between Gulgong and Dunedoo. Made up of mostly level, open country, it is well fenced, has good water and sound working improvements. The three bedroom house features a brand new kitchen and is surrounded by verandahs. It is currently running 150 breeding cows plus followers, and lends itself to further improvement as approximately half the property could be farmed.
Properties of this nature are hard to come by in this tightly held area, and Belvedere offers an opportunity not to be missed.
LOCATION
Located off the Castlereagh Highway 18km north west of Gulgong. 47km north west of Mudgee, and four hours drive from the centre of Sydney.
AREA
422.85 hectares or 1,045 acres.
TITLE PARTICULARS
The property comprises: Lot 2 of DP 1218571 and Lots 10 to 13, 81, 82, 89, 90, 92 & 93 of DP 750767.
RAINFALL
Average 700mm or 28 inches per annum.
RATES
Mid-Western Regional Council approximately $ 3,000 per annum.
SERVICES
240 volt rural power and STD phone available, as well as excellent mobile phone coverage. Mail is delivered three times a week. The school bus is at the highway, approximately 3km from the front gate, to primary and high schools in Gulgong
Weekly fat cattle sales are held at Mudgee, and fortnightly fat cattle and fat sheep and lamb sales are held in Dunedoo, approximately 65km north west.
SOILS, TIMBER AND TOPOGRAPHY
Belvedere is a mix of red loam and granite based brown loam soils. The property is all level to very gently undulating. It is principally cleared leaving ample shade and shelter trees. There are approximately 170 acres of timbered country that stock will feed through.
FENCING
The boundary is principally eight line hinged joint and in excellent condition, with the exception of one section of approximately 400 metres that needs replacing.
Internally the property is subdivided in to 12 main paddocks, with fencing mostly seven line hinged joint and in good condition.
PASTURE DEVELOPMENT
All the cleared country has had pasture broadcast over it up until 2016. Species include clovers and sub-clovers, Rhodes grass, Bluegrass, Premier Digit and Brome grass.
The property was fertilised with one hundredweight of superphosphate annually from 1980 until 1990, since then, on agronomic advice, it has received a tonne to the acre of Dolomite until 2016.
WATER
The property is watered by sixteen dams, eight of which are spring-fed. It has a 1.1km frontage to the seasonal Tallawang Creek, which regularly flows, but when it ceases it goes back to waterholes the current owner has never known to dry up.
HOME
The house is a weatherboard and iron building circa 1955, with verandahs on three sides. Fully insulated, it has three bedrooms, a large living area and a modern kitchen installed in 2018. It has an air conditioning unit and a slow combustion heater, and a four bay carport is attached. Rain water is provided by a 10,000 gallon concrete tank catching off the machinery shed, and a 25,000 gallon concrete tank catching off the house.
WORKING IMPROVEMENTS
There is a steel framed two stand woolshed with one stand equipped, which has a steel loading ramp and attached sheepyards.
There is a four bay steel framed machinery shed, and a silo.
There is a set of steel and timber cattle-yards with a crush and loading ramp
PRODUCTION
For many years Belvedere was running 3,000 sheep with approximately 50 dry cattle, although those trading cattle numbers increased in good years. Sheep were phased out, and from 2015 the vendor has been running 150 breeding cows plus followers.
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