224 Camerons Road, Woolsthorpe VIC 3276

Billanbri - 625 Acres/253Ha - Woolsthorpe
Situated in a very secure, safely held and highly regarded farming district - 35km Warrnambool.
Versatile beef & sheep breeding and fattening country with high rainfall cropping and fodder opportunities.
Picturesque fertile gently undulating country with 100 acres of summer active strawberry clover flats. Well fenced into 16 main paddocks
with laneway. Watered by 3 mills on bores.
3Brm BV home - c1980 - plus original SS 3Brm W/B home - 2-stand woolshed, machinery shedding, cattleyards and 3 haysheds.
Family ownership over 60 years demonstrates the security and capabilities of this prosperous agricultural district.
FOR SALE by EXPRESSION OF INTEREST
Closing 16th June 2016

FULL LISTING DETAILS:

Billanbri

AREA: 625 Acres /253 Ha 1 Title

LOCATION: 224 Camerons Road, Woolsthorpe
7km Woolsthorpe, 12km Hawkesdale, 35km Warrnambool, 38km Port Fairy, 70km Hamilton.

SERVICES: Papers + mail 5 days a week at the front gate. P12 school at Hawkesdale, Primary school at Woolsthorpe. Access to all Warrnambool schools and Hamilton private schools.

TENURE: 1 Title all freehold. Rates $1175 x 4 = $4700pa
287 Acres currently leased at eastern end of property. Vacant possession available.
IMPROVEMENTS: The Homes:
3brm Owens C1980 BV north facing home. Kitchen with electric stove, dining area opens onto north facing lounge with slow combustion wood heater. All bedrooms have BIRs. Family bathroom with separate shower unit and bath. Separate toilet and walk in double garage. Second original 3brm SS home lived in until 5 years ago.
The homes are set in sheltered established garden surrounds including orchard (apples, pears, plums etc).

The Farm:
2 stand GI SS woolshed with shaft gear approx. 200 sheep U/C capacity skillion adjoining. SS 3-sided open fronted 4 bay machinery shed and large newer GI machinery shed to store modern farming equipment including tractors. Mesh and post & rail cattle yards with steel working area including as new Norton heavy duty vet crush stock water available - all weather loading. GI stables of 5 boxes (3 large 2 smaller with power connected). 3 haysheds strategically situated throughout the property. Sundry other shedding.

WATER: 3 windmills on bores strategically situated throughout property 1 at sheds with 5000G tank and 1000G high tank which supplies house & garden plus 5 troughs. Main mill situated in the middle of the property can push water east or west side of farm, equipped with 1000G & 5000G tanks, Far windmill equipped with 2 tanks (1,000 gallons). Seasonal Gypsy Creek divides property. 3 dams. Freshwater catchment 2 x 5000G tanks at 2nd home. 5000G tank at main home and 2 x 5000G tanks at sheds.

PADDOCKS: 16 main paddocks with 3 holding paddocks laneway on northern side of property accessing 7 main paddocks.

FENCING: A re-fencing program has commenced 2015 with heavy duty pine posts, 7 lines with electric offsets. Additionally eastern end of property fences have been ring locked for sheep purposes.

PASTURES: Excellent balance of pastures pastures with evergreen black Summer active strawberry clover flats (approximately 100 acres) rising onto perennial ryegrass and clover pastures. Well drained soil types on higher country ideally suited to lucerne and high rainfall cropping.

FERTILISER: 3 in 1 super/potash applied to western half (338 Acres) in 2015. 2014 complete property fertilized 160kg/ha of superphosphate + 8.8 tons of 3 in 1 super/potash on hay paddocks. 2015 leased country fertilized and again in Autumn 2016.
RAINFALL: 28 30/700ml 750ml rainfall country

SOIL TYPE: Varying and versatile soil types with black loam evergreeN
flats rising onto grey & chocolate loam soils over clay with some buckshot banks.
CONTOUR: Rolling gently undulating country with 100 Acres of black
loam creek flats.

STOCK: Traditionally has carried the equivalent of 250 cows & calves. Not stocked to capacity at time of listing 287 Acres leased to prime lamb producer and 70 grown. Simmental cattle plus calves.

COMMENTS: Billanbri has been held in the same family since 1953, formerly part of the well regarded Oblong estate. It is situated in a very secure, safely held and highly regarded farming district. Billanbri exhibits an outstanding run of country with the versatility to suit beef cattle and sheep breeding and fattening together with high rainfall cropping and fodder pursuits.