Description

Nurcoung - 50km Horsham "Mountview"

"Mountview" 916.92 Acres / 371.06 HA or thereabouts
Features north facing extended 3 bedroom family home in established garden with full suite of farming improvements including 2 stand woolshed, fully enclosed workshop, machinery and sundry shedding. Abundant high-quality bore water and 9 dams. Well subdivided and fenced into 11 paddocks. Versatile gently undulating, well-drained soil types - sandy loams over clay.

SOLD: Lot 2 "Meeks" 240 Acres / 97.12 HA or thereabouts
Comprising of 3 paddocks with road access on 2 sides opposite "Mountview". Variable, gently undulating soil types of heavy loams to responsive grey sand. Dam water.

Comments: The offering of "Mountview" & "Meeks" to the marketplace is the culmination of 134 years of safely held family ownership. Versatile cropping and/or livestock country conveniently situated between Natimuk (26km) and Goroke (29km).

“Mountview” and “Meeks” have been held in the Maybery family for generations, since 1889 (134 years). The Maybery name is synonymous to the Nurcoung district as they were very early landowners. No doubt the property's name is derived from the views of the Wimmera landmark, Mt Arapiles.

SERVICES
Mail delivery to house front gate three days per week. Daily School bus from front gate to Goroke P12. Daily School bus to Horsham from Mitre only.
Garbage collection is once per week.

TENURE
"Mountview" farm comprises of two titles and “Meeks”, one title. There is an unspecified amount of unused accessible road around (but not on) “Mountview”. Fire road access.

IMPROVEMENTS
Home
Conveniently situated yet set back from the Mitre Road with a circular vehicle front entrance is a 3 bedroom north facing vinyl clad (over weatherboard) home, circa 1950's and extended in the mid 1970's. As with most homes of this era the kitchen is the focal point which is in original condition with lino floor and original laminated benchtops and stainless steel splashbacks around the stove. Westinghouse SS electric oven with central meals area. North facing lounge room with aluminium windows adjacent to the front door via fixed swinging doors with slow combustion wood heater and brick mantle fire surrounds. Master bedroom features built in robes as does third bedroom which is also large in size. Family bathroom central to bedrooms one and two, includes bath and vanity. A shower room and separate toilet is conveniently situated closer to the backdoor off the mud room/cupboard way. The cupboard way provide abundant storage for cupboard space and whitegoods. Separate laundry inside back door. Surrounding the home is a well sheltered and fenced established garden with abundant bore water. Historically the property has been known for it's capacity to produce vegetables and as an established fruit bearing orchard including pears, apples, fig, apricot, peach, almond, olives. There is ample garden shedding surrounding the home. Original galvanised iron single garage with skillion within easy walking distance of the home.

Farming Improvements
All farming improvements are situated conveniently to the house with separate entrance off Mitre Road. Fully enclosed machinery shed/workshop (8m x 9m x 4.5m high) with concrete floor and single phase power connected featuring sliding door at front and rear. Note underground power between machinery shed and the house. Galvanised iron machinery shed (19m x 9m x 12m high). Third open fronted two sided hay shed/machinery shed. Wool Shed is galvanised iron 2-stand with insulated roof and capacity for 250 sheep undercover with additional baton space (lift up) in machinery skillion (sliding doors). Wool shed is plumbed. Sheepyards consist of conventional design with 2-way draft, single galvanised drenching race and plunge dip with established peppertree for shade and shelter. Additional sundry shedding.

WATER
Bore situated at rear of house and comprises of sub pump on 6 inch diameter bore producing 4,000 galls per hour and fills 4000 gallon concrete tank. Bore depth 60 ft deep with very good quality water. Adjacent to the orchard is a 2” water stand-pipe fed from the bore. Currently the water is only connected to two stock troughs but does fill house dam but has the capacity to run over the majority of the property and over the road as it is downhill gradient. Fresh water is supplied by electric pump which can fill three tanks: 5,000 gals, 3,000 gals, 5,000 gals = 13,000 gals total. Main Dam (below the house)
has approximately 15,000 to 20,000 gals fresh water catchment.
Less runoff water since the paddock has been cropped. All 9 farm dams on Mountview have been cleaned out in the last 5 years. Electric pump at shed provides extra pressure for spray tank purposes with bore water connected to house and toilets additional to fresh water. Woolshed catchment tanks is connected to the home.

PADDOCKS
“Mountview” is well subdivided into 11 main paddocks with 9 dams other than 2 stock troughs. “Meeks” is subdivided into 3 paddocks with 2 dams only. Total 11 dams over the property.

FENCING
Boundary and internal fencing appears to be in sound stock proof condition. Notably there is a as new kangaroo fence on “Mountview's” southern boundary comprising of 7 line cyclone with 2 barbs on top and iron posts.

FERTILISER
In recent times fertiliser in cropping paddocks only.

RAINFALL
Local rainfall recordings at Natimuk Mean ave 436mm / 17.45 inches and Goroke Mean ave 504.9mm / 17.99 inches

SOILS
“Mountview” has a gently undulating contour which provides for versatile soil types comprising of sandy loams on bank country running on to heavier black clay loams with isolated areas of sandy banks and some red gravel in isolated areas. “Mountview” drains to the south east via a tree lined seasonal creek (White gums and Mallee gums).
“Meeks” again has versatile soil types with heavy black ground on the southern end with loamy country in the middle and black sand on the northern 40 acre paddock.

STOCK
Currently running 300 Merino ewes, yet not stocked to capacity.