Great Britain Road Southern Cross QLD 4820

Location-
Great Britain road is located on the northwestern side of Charters Towers approximately 10km from town, about a 6-minute drive by car.

Services -
Situated about 10km from Charters Towers town centre the property accesses all the services of a regional town with a population of approximately 9000 people. Schooling, both primary and secondary, are a feature of the Charters Towers community with the town boasting three Private Schools, the State High School and three State Primary Schools. Charters Towers is an historic city established in the gold rush of the 1880’s and still services the large Gold Mining and Grazing Industries of the Charters Towers shire. For cattleman, the weekly liveweight selling centre in Charters Towers, Live Export ex Townsville (110klm) and Townsville meatworks are all major attractions for this location. Townsville is a vibrant city of approximately people 200,000 with diverse industry and opportunity for employment, business, and higher education. 

Area & Tenure-

Land Area- 23.88 ha or 59 acres of Freehold Land over 2 titles

Primary Land Use – Dwelling Large House site

Secondary Land Use- Farming

Shed–
The property has a well-built Masonry block / steel truss constructed shed on the property. It is a nice solid building which could possibly be built into a shed house if desired. The shed has a dirt floor.

Country-
The country consists of mostly black and brown self-mulching soils and some decomposing granite type soils. The trees consist of Bauhinia, Narrow leaf Iron bark, Black butt Gums, Brigalow and other native gum trees and scrubs. The grasses mostly consist of Urachloa, Couch and a legume called Wyn Cassia. The property is virtually weed free, but it needs a spell/ reseed to replenish the grasses.
The property has two seasonal creeks running through the middle of the place. Scrubby and Sandy creek both meet up at an anabranch on the place. The shed where the current owner has been for the last 20 years has never had flood water in the shed where he lives.
59 Acres of freehold, surrounded by unfenced road reserves equating to about 100 acres of usable land.

Yards-
The property has approximately 60 steel portable panels included in the sale, currently being used for horse yards. These vary in size and shape and quality.

Power-
There is currently no electricity on this property and the closest source is approximately 600 metres away from the Shed or approximately 50 metres away from the boundary on the eastern boundary. It may be possible to install solar panels on the roof of the shed and go off grid. This may be a cheaper option.

 Water -
The property has three PVC cased Bores. One is equipped with a good quality, solar powered TU Horse submersible pump. The current owner has drunk this water for the last 20 years. As well as the bore there are two smaller dams. One which is topped up with the solar bore.

Bore Information-
Bore 1 – Depth 64 Foot Flow - 900 Gallons per hour

Bore 2 – Depth 65 Foot 1200 Gallons per hour

Bore 3 – Depth 85 Feet Flow unknown, Water unknown to current owner.

 Chook yards-
There is two chook yards on the property. One large well-built shed and another smaller yard. The sale will include the chooks and roosters in the cages.

Horses-
Included in the sale of the property are a number of horses (approximately 24 head). These mostly consist of paint horses and some ASH bloodlines including some abbey blood. All horses were bred to work cattle once upon a time by the owner. The majority of these horses are brood mares and 2-year-olds, plus two stallions. The breakup is included in attachments. These horses are to be sold with the property as is where is. They are unbroken, unridden and not halter broken, either. There is no loading ramp to load horses on to trucks. One of the stallion’s, is registered with paperwork. He is a paint horse and nice type at around 14.2 hands at a guess. Mostly all of these horses have nice quiet temperaments. Mostly all horses are under 14.3 hands.

Some of the Included items-

AgriSon Tractor
Silvan Spray Unit, Tractor Bucket, Small Green Slasher
3 x Four-Wheeler Motor bikes (Yamaha Grizzly 350, Suzuki Ozark Quad runner 250, Suzuki Ozark Quad runner with spray Unit on the back)
60 odd Portable Panels
Caravan (Old not registered)
Small Nissan Pulsar Car (running)- Needs battery, needs front shock absorbers, Rego will be cancelled before sale.
Solar panels & Submersible TU Horse pump
24 Horses (Mixed bred Paint horses, Stock horse Crosses
2 Stallions, Approximately- 18 odd Mares & Fillies, Approximately- 4 x Colt’s/Geldings/ Foals
8 Shed Trusses & 12 Gates
Sale includes Hens & Roosters in Chook Yards.

 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