PRIDE OF THE NORTH EAST - 'AIRLIE AT THOONA'' - 1,936 HECTARES (4,783 ACRES) OF HIGHLY PRODUCTIVE CROPPING & GRAZING - TWO HOURS NORTH OF MELBOURNE, HELD BY THREE GENERATIONS OF FAMILY OWNERSHIP SINCE 1930 - AS A WHOLE OR IN THREE LOTS
One of the largest and highly developed farm holdings at Thoona in Victoria's north east and within thirty minutes reach of the major rural destinations of Benalla, Wangaratta and Yarrawonga is being offered to the market for sale by Expressions of Interest by Elders Real Estate in Wangaratta.
Held in twenty one titles and farmed in over thirty main paddocks Airlie has a long double frontage of over five kilometres to the bitumen Goorambat to Thoona Road with multiple frontages to other Council maintained roads and a network of formed paddock accessways.
Effectively three separate holdings expanded by acquisitions over the last ninety odd years all of which adjoin including a holding abutting the Thoona village at its northern end.
There is school bus access to quality schools and colleges in both Benalla and Wangaratta.
There are two substantial homes on Airlie with the principal brick family home of four bedrooms that was originally built about 1960.
It has been progressively and substantially refurbished and extended to present as a practical and quality lived experience with high quality appliances, building services and finishes.
It has an area under roof of fifty squares and is set in an established garden with a synthetic grass tennis court and in ground swimming pool and includes a large solar energy system.
An original brick double car garage has been repurposed as a self-contained children's retreat and could easily serve as a farm office.
It is supported by over 300,000 litres of rainwater storage and is adjoined by a substantial farm infrastructure compound that includes three large machinery sheds, a large hayshed with adjoining chemical store, and two workshop structures.
There is also an operational three stand shearing shed of over 400 sqm with a large working set of steel sheep yards although the Sinclair's have not run sheep on Airlie since 2018
There is also substantial grain storage within this compound including a sixteen by sixteen metre secure gain shed, another with a capacity of 160 tonnes, two silos of 567 tonne capacity, a further two Cyclone silos totalling another 640 tonnes of storage with ten Kotzur steel silos each able to store a further forty tonnes of grain and 2 x 55m3 fertiliser silos. The vendors assess the total on farm grain storage at 2,300 tonnes.
The current cropping program on Airlie sees 1,060 acres planted to Canola, 1,490 acres under Wheat. 120 acres to Oats or Barley and 100 acres to pasture grown for hay or silage.
The second home on the Airlie holding is a four bedroom sandstock brick home in Art Deco style that is in sound structural and practical condition and recently repainted.
Spread thought Airlie are four sets of effective self-contained working cattle yards and three sets of sheep yards.
Airlie is currently running 450 breeding cows and their calves, one hundred heifers and number of opportunity trading stock of either Hereford or Angus steers.
'All the physical improvements of boundary and paddock fencing, internal roads, some fifty paddock dams and other infrastructure are in optimum condition so no immediate capital investment will be needed by the purchaser.
'There are over fifty catchment stock dams plus there is an 8o mm in ground pvc pipeline over about four kilometres that conveys a five megalitre stock and domestic water right cross Airlie from a community pipeline that forms part of the Broken River system.
'The property also holds double frontages to three seasonal creeks the Boosey, Bungeet and Katamatite Creeks which also add valuable stock water supplies.
''The vendors preference is to sell Airlie as an intact 1,936 ha (or 4,783 acres) or as an alternative will consider offers as three sections known as Airlie of 774 hectares, (or 1,913 acres), as the Avalon part of 405 (or 1,000 acres), or as the Lenid portion of 756 ha (or 1,869 acres).
Each lot has multiple titles, extensive main bitumen road frontages. There is also a 900 metres airstrip on the property.
A comprehensive Information Memorandum on Airlie at Thoona is available now and on request to Elders Real Estate Wangaratta.
