Well here is a property that should attract attention for many reasons, the versatility or potential uses, its productivity, the value it represents, the facilities it has to offer, the potential for return on investment and lifestyle setting. For a number of years this property was part of a larger farming enterprise, and for that reason it has so much to offer. it has extensive facilities that many comparative sized properties may not have on offer. Until recently the property was part of a dairy goat milking operation which value added by having its own processing facilities and branding. The property is certainly capable of resuming operation with some servicing detail.
The property is approximately 74.347 acres of moderately undulating and highly productive slopes predominantly of improved pasture with the balance of approximately 12 acres of Native Bush. The farm features a circa 1940 Weatherboard country home with elevated ceilings, existing dairy suitable for goats or sheep milk production, processing rooms including temperature controlled rooms approved for commercial milk and cheese production, utility sheds for machinery, livestock husbandry and fodder.
The facilities of the property could be utilised for any number of commercial enterprises having been established to meet food handling standards, so would be suitable for dairy, meat or fruit industries.
The homestead is a comfortable three bedroom weatherboard home with open plan kitchen, dining and lounge room with ample area for a designated office. The kitchen and dining areas feature floating timber flooring while the lounge and bedrooms feature original polished timber floors. The kitchen appliances include Chef electric stove and Westinghouse dishwasher, the island bench has power available and gas conduit installed with a view to upgrading cooking facilities and rangehood in the future. The home is warmed in winter by the Heat Charm free standing wood heater and supplemented by recently installed ducted heat transfer system to warm throughout the house. The home has two bathrooms, one internal, and second from the laundry with shower and WC when coming in from working outdoors.
The dairy and processing plant are equipped with Wesfalia milking plant - 16 aside herringbone platform, two Milkwell vats of 2630 and 2700 litre capacity, wash down pump and 15 tonne silo and feed system. The Processing faciities include office, sensor induced sanitary auto hand wash units, solar hot water unit with 300L tank and 36 evacuated tubes, pasturising unit, coolroom processing area three dedicated cool rooms for milk, yoghurt and cheese production, storage and maturing. Some of the equipment requires servicing, all can be operational by settlement should a purchaser wish to revive the dairy operation.
The property is divided into approximately 33 permanent four wired electric fenced paddocks divided, and serviced by laneways with numerous circuit breakers for isolation of sections and not including forest or top meadow. The main pasture areas and boundaries have vermin proof fencing erected. Water supply for the residence, dairy, processing plant and reticulation and stock points is from a permanent bore rated at approximately 1360 litres per hour with stock water serviced from a 14,000 litre poly water tank with supply predominantly by gravity. There is a second bore on the property however is not in use currently. As part of the infrastructure of the property there is a pipeline easement providing for water access to the Leven River to allow for potential irrigation of the property (Further information upon request).
The property is currently being utilised to agist dairy heifers and for fodder production of hay and silage, and continues to run a small number of sheep. As mentioned the property is very fertile, Gunns Plains due to the topography has a a quite unique microclimate of its own with reliable rainfall of over 1300 mm per annum (records available) and weather patterns being in somewhat of an natural ampitheatre. With the slopes and aspect of the property elevated slightly above the river flats it would be ideally suited to growing berry crops and other traditional cool climate fruits.
As mentioned this is such a versatile property, it could encompass any number of uses. It features large number of shed facilities that could easily utilised for a number of business options, the main machinery shed 16 metres X 7.5 metres would be ideal for a craftsman or for a small scale engineering business, while the two additional sheds at 15 metres X 6 metres and 12 metres X 6 metres respectively are ideal for stock handling, machinery or fodder storage. Single and three phase power are installed at the property, although 3 phase is not presently commissioned for use.
Approximately 20 to 25 minutes from the heart of Ulverstone, 35 to 40 minutes from Devonport, and approximately an hour and a half from Launceston, the two main gateways, air and shipping accesses in and out of the state. Access to schools, shops and essential services are approximately twenty minutes to half an hour away, nothing to todays modern commuter.
Property Code: 487
