Location:

“Burdekin View” is situated approximately 21 km East of Charters Towers, just off the Flinders Highway on the Townsville side of the Macrossan bridge. “Burdekin View is approximately 19 minutes’ drive by car to the Charters Towers city centre. Townsville is also only approximately 100 km away or a 1 hour’s drive to the outskirts of Townsville.

Area & Tenure:

Total – 26.02 ha or 64.29 acres approximately
Freehold

About the Property:

This property is 64 acres of freehold land on the banks of the Burdekin River. It has 724 metres of beautiful scenic river frontage with fertile soils, an irrigation license, 5-year lease of 450 acres of adjacent grazing land, with a beautiful extensively renovated three-bedroom house featuring 2 bathrooms, 2 large loungerooms, an inside bar, a beautiful large shaded entertainment area featuring a outside bar plus a large shed.

House:

• 3 Bedrooms
• 2 Modernly Renovated Bathrooms
• Fully Split System Air-conditioned
• Inside & Outside Drinking bars
• Two large lounge / Media rooms
• Large modern kitchen
• Separate Dining room
• Independent laundry
• Built in cupboards in all bedrooms except one
• Walk In robe in main bedroom
• 2 Toilets
• A Large entertainment area outside
• 2 Bars (1 inside, 1 Outside)

The house was originally a smaller Queenslander style home and over the last 30 years it has been professionally renovated by a licensed builder to make it into the quite large home it is today. The house is a good quality, solid, timber framed house which is a combination of stumps and slab on ground foundations. The house is cladded on the outside with a combination of weather boards, FC sheeting and colour bond custom orb iron. The inside of the house is lined with Gyprock sheeting plus feature walls of stone and corrugated Iron. The house features a beautiful outdoor entertaining area which has lower tiled section stepping up on to the expansive hardwood deck featuring a standalone Balinese style bar. From the deck on the southeastern side, stairs lead you down on to the luscious expansive green lawns and large shady treed backyard. Back inside the house the floor has a combination of quality ‘timber look’ vinyl floating planks and tiles. It is fully air conditioning throughout, with built in cupboards in all the bedrooms except one. A feature of this house is that it has two very large lounge rooms, one on each side of the house. One lounge room backs on to the inside bar, which then backs on to the outdoor entertaining area. This space is a entertainers delight and would be perfect for parties, watching / hosting big sporting events on TV, watching weekend sport while having a drink or just relaxing while watching a movie.  All up it has three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a kitchen, an independent dining area and an independent laundry. As well as all of that, it a has beautiful a view of the river right outside the back door and the river is only just a few minutes’ walk from the house. The house is located in a very quiet and private area and although close to the Flinders Highway the traffic noise is almost unnoticeable.

Shed & Cold room:

Off the Northern side of the house is a large shed. It is used as a workshop, for storage and for keeping cars, boats, trailers etc out of the weather. Also inside the shed is a large cold room (currently not working) which is approximately 6 metres long x 2.4 metres wide which was installed some years ago for storing table grapes that were grown on the property. Most of the shed is concreted providing clean out of weather storage and workshop space. The shed is a combination of several extensions throughout the years. All up it measures approximately 15 metres wide x 20 metres long x and approximately 3.5 / 4.5 metres high depending on the section of the shed. Electricity and water are connected.

Stables:

Burdekin View has a nice horse stable / tack shed and day yard just a short walk from the house. The stable is built out of quality steel RHS and lined with corrugated iron. Beside the stable is concreted undercover area used for storing horse tack and feed. The stable also backs on to a handy day yard which is made from steel posts and wire and has a steel pipe top rail making it an almost ‘cut free’ yard and very safe for horses.

Water & Water Allocation: 

Burdekin View has 724 metres of amazingly, beautiful river frontage land. The property sources its water directly from the river using an electric Onga pump. It pumps up to multiple storage tanks at the house. From the tanks it is then pumped into the house using pressure pumps.

The property also has a water allocation of 26.4 Mega Litres (ML) per water year. This allows the property owner to legally take this amount of water per year providing they follow the governing legislation surrounding this allocation. The main requirement, if the purchaser wanted to irrigate the land would be to install a certified water meter on the intake line before the pump. This water provides buyers with the opportunity to grow crops, fodder for livestock, hay etc it they desire or at the very least allows the owners to have a big, beautiful garden. (This water allocation is subject to meeting and following certain legislated rules governing the metering and harvesting of the water and buyers should do their own due diligence as to what is required).

The current owners have grown table grapes in the past. The grape trestles are still in place and in reasonable condition if someone has the inclination to grow them again.

Not far from the river is a large dam surrounded by beautiful gum trees. This dam could serve as a backup source of clean water during floods. This dam is also used for stock water and a recreational dam for enjoyment.

• Large dam
• 10,000 litre concrete water storage tank plus two smaller additional poly water tanks
• Electric Onga Pump with Venturi foot valve at the river
• Pressure pump at the house

Cattle Yards & Lease Block:

Burdekin View has a nice set of permanent steel cattle yards capable of handling approximately 30-50 head at a time. The yards have several large and small back yards, a square pound draft, a race with slide gates, a head bail and a loading ramp. These yards are capable of drafting, vaccinating, branding and loading cattle.

Lease Country:

The owners of ‘Burdekin View’ currently have the lease of approximately 321 acres of council land that backs right on to ‘Burdekin View’. It is a 5-year lease expiring in 2030 which is for grazing purposes only.

The lease block is mostly all gold fields type country which is a mixture of decomposed granites and red volcanic clay type soils plus some black soil in parts. Majority of the trees are Iron bark, Blood wood and Plumtrees. 

Fencing & Stock Water: 

The fencing at Burdekin View consists of mostly three & four barb wires and steel picket style construction, with the strainer posts being a combination of hardwood and steel assemblies. There is also a small paddock that is fully netting wire fenced. This fenced paddock is where table grapes were previously grown by the current owners. It was fenced with netting to prevent pigs and Roo’s from eating the fruit and wrecking the vines.

The property is fenced into 4 main paddocks not including the river frontage. The paddocks are watered using two dams and four stock troughs. The river can also be grazed seasonally adding an additional paddock, however due to flooding the fences would need to be pulled down prior to floods and put back up after floods otherwise they will get washed away completely or be very hard to untangle.

The lease paddock is watered by three small seasonal dams plus water back at the house yards. As the dams dry up later in the year the cattle are watered back at the house yards from a stock trough.

Country/ Land:

The property soil types consist of mostly highly fertile, rich river loam with only a small portion of the property on the higher ridges being decomposed granite type soils. It has a mixture of grasses such as Buffel, Urachloa, River Couch, Green panic, Black spear grass, Indian Couch and other native and non-native grasses. As well as these grasses there are also legumes such as Townsville Stylo, Verano and Butterfly Pea. It has a mixture of native gum trees such as, Moreton Bay Ash, Gum Topped Box, Ghost Gum, Poplar Box, Narrow leaf ironbark, Bloodwood, Plum trees and other native shrubs. Noxious weeds on the property consist of mostly Chinee Apple and Belly Ache bush but there are also other less noticeable seasonal weeds around.

Electricity:

The Property has two phase electricity connected to the house and sheds with an independent transformer providing good safe reliable electricity year-round. The pump in the river is supplied with underground mains electricity from the power board at the house. This makes it easy to turn the pump on and off whenever water is required.

Disclaimer: The above report has been prepared by Slaney & Co based on information supplied by the property owner and other credible sources. Every endeavor has been made to verify its accuracy. Whilst we trust the information to be correct, we make no warranties or guarantees, and prospective purchasers must rely on their own enquiries & research. © Copyright Slaney & Co