"Green Hills Station" at Sharps Creek near Adelong is a renowned livestock production powerhouse of southern NSW. Consisting of 1705 acres of highly improved pastures with an annual rainfall of 890mm, "Green Hills Station" ensures consistent production.
The property is offered to the market on two separate titles and can be sold as a whole, known as "Green Hills Station" and consists of 1705 acres. Alternatively, the property can be sold in two portions "Green Hills Homestead" on 650 acres and "Woraren Era" consisting of 1055 acres.
Located 10km from Adelong, 28km from Tumut and 90km from Wagga Wagga "Green Hills Station" has excellent access to large regional centres and livestock markets via the Hume, Sturt and Snowy Mountains Highways.
Accommodation includes 2 substantial homes with The Green Hills Homestead - an 1840's triple brick home, recently renovated and featuring 4 bedrooms, with a fifth bedroom/guest accommodation or office.
With spacious living rooms and a large undercover verandah, ideal for outdoor living and entertaining is perfectly positioned facing north-east. The homestead overlooks a well-manicured, easy-care, park-like garden surrounded by established trees and an inground swimming pool.
"Green Hills Homestead" infrastructure consists of a range of working improvements including a network of green laneways feeding into a set of centrally located, all-steel, high-capacity cattle yards with vet crush and power. Further infrastructure includes:
• Machinery shed x 1 with 5-bays and power connected
• Hayshed x 1
• Workshop, lockup with concrete floor
• Woolshed 4 stand, (currently unused)
• Sheep yards, Prattley - all steel with 3-way draft
• Chemical shed
"Woraren Era" has a substantial 5-bedroom, red brick homestead, currently tenanted and is ideal as a manager's home. This home along with one hayshed rounds out the infrastructure on the 1055 acres of "Woraren Era".
Pastures - A long term pasture improvement program has been developed to ensure year-round production. All pastures are of improved species with phalaris, perennial and annual ryegrass dominating and sub clover the dominant legume, with some native grasses giving valuable summer feed.
Soils -The property is highly productive, comprising two soil types of granite and basalt, with a rigorous single super and lime program having been undertaken to improve pasture production and persistence across the farm.
Water is a feature of the property, with all paddocks having dams or creeks supplying excellent quality water year-round. Two creeks run through the property, the Nacki Creek and Sharps Creek; both are considered permanent creeks, effectively drought-proofing "Green Hills Homestead" and "Woraren Era". Many of the dams are spring fed with several troughs in holding paddocks having water reticulated from header tanks filled from Sharps Creek.
The homesteads have rainwater supplied from lined corrugated and poly tanks with Garden water for the homestead supplied from Sharps Creek.
Timber is lightly scattered across the property providing a park-like feel with timber species being predominantly Yellow and Red Box, Red Gum, with some Stringy Bark. Several European species have been planted over the years with Elm trees dominating areas of the landscape providing excellent shade over summer for livestock.
Fencing is excellent and generally of all steel construction consisting of steel strainers, stays and inline posts. Most fences consist of either 5 Iowa barb, 3 Iowa barb and plain wires or fabricated hinge joint and barb. Electric fencing is utilised across the majority of the property with 2 mains powered energiser units and several solar-powered units across watercourses.
The sale of "Green Hills Station" as a whole or in two separate parcels presents a rare opportunity to purchase proven high-performing grazing country in a highly reliable rainfall zone.
Inspections by appointment only
For more information, please contact selling agents Andrew Bell or Brian Liston at Nutrien Harcourts Albury Rural.
*All measurements are approximate.
