464 Milltown Mission Road, Heywood VIC 3304

Lot 2 - "Refriag of 194 Acres / 70.85HA (Lots 1 & 3 adjoining are listed separately)

*Rustic and character filled 4 bedroom timber home, sunlit lounge and separate family room, 2 bathrooms, set in a delightfully established garden surrounds.
*Attractive 10 Acre / 4.6HA wetlands located close to the home for recreational and stockwater purposes. Sundry machinery and hay shedding. Former dairy converted to cattleyards.
* Fertile undulating country with excellent subdivision of 17 paddocks.

Ideally suited as a productive standalone small cattle property with the home set in idyllic surrounds.

LISTING DETAILS AS A WHOLE OR IN 3 CONTINGENT SEPARATE LOTS:
AREA: 576 Acres / 233 HA (Multiple Titles)
LOCATION: 1171 Condah/Ettrick Road, Heywood. Heywood (pop. 1,000) is the closest service center 15km to the south-west which provides all day to day services including health, schooling, retail and agricultural. Notably the deep sea port of Portland (pop. 10,000) is 50km which provides fertilizer inbound and live cattle exports and grain outbound. Centrally situated to all major regional centers - Warrnambool (91km), Hamilton (50km) and Mt Gambier (102km).

SERVICES: School bus at gate for kindergarten, primary and secondary schools at Heywood but all Hamilton Private schools 4.6 km at Henty Highway. Garbage collection at gate, papers and mail 5 days per week. Grocery deliveries at gate.

TENURE: Unspecified amount of 99 year unused road lease

IMPROVEMENTS: Main home:
Elevated encapsulating magnificent views of the property is a spacious cement sheet construction family home which has been significantly renovated in recent times. Comprising of 4 double bedrooms all with BIR's accessed from central hallway (with large storage cupboards). Master bedroom with renovated large ensuite and centrally situated renovated family bathroom with bath and separate shower unit. North facing open plan large living room renovated with smart glass windows (as is most of the home) with new sliding doors opens onto an elevated timber wide deck (4m). Living room features outstanding north and easterly facing rural and farm views and slow combustion wood heater and new R/c Air conditioner (4 years old). Adjacent is an open plan kitchen renovated 3 years ago, again with delightful rural farm views with as new 3 yr old Smeg double self-cleaning SS wall oven and 4 burner ceramic cook tops. As new 3 yr old SS Bosch dishwasher, twin fridge cavity, twin sinks, island bench for food preparation purposes and breakfast bar to seat 4. Renovated laundry with under bench washer & drier. Easterly facing timber verandah leading to new garage with roller doors (electric). Home has been re-stumped (3years ago & new gutters) and newly insulated double bats in roof. Fully fenced/side yard which is dog proof. Extensive easy care low maintenance principally native garden with roses, vegie garden and small orchard. 2 poultry sheds. Second garage (single) and small workshop & garden shed (power & lights) is situated close by as is woodshed. 6 bay GI implement shed (7m x 28m open fronted (7 bays) including built in tack room and horse wash bay.

Farming Improvements
Fully equipped 23 A/S H/B dairy set up for one person operation, DeLaval milking plant and variable vacuum pump. 16,000L DeLaval Milk Vat. 380 cow yard. Collared cow herd (June 2022, Waikato brand Ned App Cow Collars) with auto draft with easy dairy computer system monitoring herd health and fertility ($189,000 investment 2022). 3 pond effluent system - Southern Cross pump on 3rd pond can irrigate via travelling irrigator assists with autumn break or supplements fodder crop. Undercover AI race/vet yard with 30 head capacity & 9 in AI race. New heavy duty vet crush. Large capacity automated feed system at dairy with variable speed feed heads comprising of 220 ton capacity on farm grain storage (3 silos), canola silo (30 ton) and feed silo with grain disc mill. Easy b double access to dairy and shedding for milk and hay deliveries. B double access to paddocks on Mission Road for feed purposes. As new “Action” (5 yrs old, 32m x 15m x 6m) steel fabricated open fronted hay and feed shed with 800 large square bale capacity. Substantial limestone hard stand area around shedding and dairy. Staff amenities include standalone single persons quarters, bedroom and bathroom. As new purpose built galvanized iron 10 bay calf shed 100 head capacity (6m x 40m open-fronted with earthen floor), troughs throughout and 20 ton pellet silo. The calf shed is strategically situated to 4 purpose built calf paddocks. (Bega Better Farm Practices). Substantial post and rail cattle yards with easy year round b double access.

WATER: Sub pump on bore near dairy with as new pump (2 yrs ago) supplies dairy water for plate cooler & wash down purposes and can supplement stock water if required via 40ml poly piping. This diameter piping runs in a loop throughout the property. Main stock water is sourced f