Breddan QLD 4820

About Charters Towers:

Situated about 10 km from Charters Towers the property accesses all the services of a regional town with a population of approximately 10,000 people. Charters Towers experiences a tropical semi-arid climate, with a short-wet season and a long dry season. For most of the year it has cooler nights and lower humidity. The average rainfall is 650 millimetres of rain per year.

Schooling, both primary and secondary, are a feature of the Charters Towers community with the town having three Private Schools, a State High School and three State Primary Schools. Charters Towers is an historic city established in the gold rush of the 1880’s and today still services a large Gold Mining industry as well as the large Grazing Industry of Charters Towers region. For cattleman, the weekly liveweight selling centre in Charters Towers, Live Export and the Townsville meatworks are all considerations of this location. Just down the road (120km) is the vibrant city of Townsville which has a population of approximately 200,000 people. Townsville has a diverse manufacturing industry, a major hospital, a university and other additional opportunities for employment, business, and higher education.

Location:

The property is approximately 10 km from Charters Towers city centre on the eastern side of town heading towards Townsville. It is located in a quiet location surrounded by other small acreage properties.

Area & Tenure:

Tenure - Freehold Land

Total Area - 15.61 Hectares or approximately 38.57 Acres

House:

The house is comfortable multi-level, single storey, partially renovated miner’s cottage on stumps. It is lined on the outside with hardwood and FC cladding and sheeted on the inside with a combination of fibro, hardwood tongue and groove planking and VJ sheeting. The flooring is combination of polished timber floorboards, vinyl and tiles with concrete flooring in the laundry and bathroom. The house has a total of four bedrooms, all of which are fully split system air conditioned. The house features a large lounge, living and dining room space providing a nice inside living area. There is a veranda out the front and a porch out the side of the house. Beside the house out off the porch is a very large shaded concrete pad, which has shade sails overhead. The roof on the house has a been recently replaced with colour bond roofing iron, flashings and guttering approximately the last 5-6 years and is good condition.

4 Bedrooms
Large Kitchen Area
Walk in Pantry
Laundry
Bathroom
Lounge room
Dinning room
Front Veranda & Porch

Bar / Bedroom:

Beside the house is an independent masonry block building which is currently being used as an inside bar. This building is airconditioned with a box air conditioner and could be used as a 5th independent bedroom if desired.

Sheds:

The property has a several small sheds. The main shed is beside the house, has three open bays at the front with additional storage/ workshop space in the back and it has electricity connected. This shed is suitable for cars, motor bikes, buggies, horse floats etc.

On the small block where the water well is located is a 5 bay open sided carport shed. Its currently being used for storage of rural supplies and as a secondary carport.

Garden:

The property has nice shady trees and green lawns around the house. It features native shrubs, frangipanis and other large shade trees.

Country:

The property is slightly undulating with small slopes and valleys throughout. The soils consist of mostly decomposed granite soils with additional softer creek loams in pockets. The trees predominately consist of Iron bark and Bloodwood as well as other native gums and tea trees. The grasses consist of mostly Couch, Buffel, native blue grasses and green panic in the creek frontage. The property also has a healthy abundance of Seca stylo’s. Weeds on the property are in small and very manageable levels which consist of mostly Neem trees, Currant bush and a handful of Chinee apple trees.

Water/ Dam:

The property pumps its water from a water well on the edge of a nearby creek just down from the house. The well is equipped with an electric centrifugal pump which is connected to an underground poly pipeline. Water is pumped from the well to the house tanks and is then pressurised by another pump into the house and surrounding taps etc. There are also two rainwater tanks catching and providing good quality drinking water.

The property has a nice dam just down from the house. This dam provides water for stock most of the year, depending on the wet season rainfall.

Fencing:

The property has three and four barb stock fencing throughout with mostly good quality steel pipe strainer assemblies. In total there are three paddocks, two smaller paddocks and another slightly larger paddock. Stock access their water from the dam and from pods around the house yard filled up using hoses.

Disclaimer: The above report has been prepared by Slaney & Co based on information supplied by the property owner and other credible sources. Every endeavour has been made to verify its accuracy. Whilst we trust the information to be correct, we make no warranties nor guarantees, and prospective purchasers must rely on their own enquiries & research. © Copyright Slaney & Co