Location: 'FLORISTAN' 86 Luck Road, Hodgson Vale - provides bitumen frontage to Luck Road & New England Highway.
Services: 3 phase mains power, mail service at front gate, school bus services to Toowoomba private schools & interchange. Vale View Primary school is approx. 2kms.
RPD: Lot 1 on RP151924 = 89.301ha
Lot 31 on RP20933 = 57.645ha
Lot 32 on RP20934 = 51.524ha
Land Area: 198.47 hectares (490 acres)
*To be auctioned separately after Lot 1, 31 & 32:
RPD: Lot 655 on SP200757 = 36.9854ha (91.3 acres)
Total Land Area: 4 titles - 235.4554 ha (581.5 acres approx.)
Rates: Approx. $4,278.70 nett per half year
Country: "FLORISTAN" runs from gently basalt country into more elevated ridges. 129.5ha (320 acres*) is currently contoured farming country with black clay to chocolate basalt soils. The balance is gullies, waterways and elevated undulating grazing country with shaded ironbark.
Water - "Floristan" has a 72ML irrigation licence main range volcanic. The bore is drilled to 110 metres and is equipped with a Mono pump with diesel motor. The bore was pumping 5000gph. This bore is currently used for stock water supply, 1 x 22,500 litre poly tank & 1 trough.
Bore (at house): approx. 114 metres equipped electric submersible, set at 800 gph used for stock & domestic. Reticulates to 1 x 91,000 litre concrete tank and 22,500 litre poly tank & 4 troughs plus 2 houses. There are also 3 other stock bores not in use.
Fencing: The property is fenced for cattle and is mainly wood posts 4 barb and the newer internal fencing is mainly steel posts, 3 barb and electric plain.
The cultivation is divided into approximately 17 paddocks, mainly fenced along contours. The property has a total of 21 paddocks.
Cattle Yards: Includes a mix of steel and timber and is divided into 5 main yards and forcing yard leading to crush plus forcing pen to loading race. Includes 1 trough.
Improvements -
Homestead: The "Floristan" homestead is a well-known landmark circa 1900. It consists of 4 bedrooms, eat-in kitchen with electric stove and 2 x walk-in pantries, central dining room/lounge with double sided fireplace, renovated bathroom with walk-in shower & vanity plus toilet. Features include leadlight front doors, transom windows above doorways and the lounge has bay windows. There are enclosed verandas and a separate laundry. Outside there are 2 x rainwater tanks with 2 x pressure pumps plus a double garage.
Managers Residence: Lowset 3-bedroom, 1 bathroom timber home circa 1964 "Gordon Bourke Home" with eat-in kitchen that features gas hot plates, separate gas oven, dishwasher & built in cupboards, separate lounge, 3rd bedroom has built-ins and the bathroom was renovated in 2020. It has a shower, vanity and toilet. Downstairs there is a toilet and laundry. Outside there is a 1 x 2000-gallon tank (drinking) plus covered outdoor area, double garage and cubby house.
Truck Shed: 9.4m x 6.3m - Timber uprights & frame, enclosed, corrugated iron and lockable.
Barn: 6.4m x 9.5m -Timber floored barn on concrete foundations, sheeted with corrugated iron and lockable.
Machinery Shed: 13.5m x 18.5m - Metal frame, timber purlins, enclosed with corrugated iron and lockable.
Cattle yards & old diary: 12.8m x 4m (dairy) - Mix of timber, steel posts & remodelled with some portable panels with loading race and Leicht's vet cattle crush.
Remarks: "Floristan" is a landmark 4th generation property on the doorstep of Toowoomba, overlooking the farming valley and residential developments of Hodgson Vale of which it adjoins. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for farmers, retirees, developers, land bankers or people wanting to live on the edge of Toowoomba. With the New England Highway frontage to The Garden City, or to the south and western corridor of the inner Darling Downs with Wellcamp airport and the Toowoomba City By-Pass within close commute. Don't miss out!
* = approximately
AUCTION DETAILS:
12th September 2025 from 11.00am
Burke & Wills - Karl Langer West Room
554 Ruthven Street, Toowoomba City
Can't attend in person? Watch the auction online!
https://raywhitetoowoomba.com/watch-our-auctions-live
Agents:
Matt Cleary 0428 987 340
Myles Cosgrove 0419 271 247
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