Highly Improved Grazing + Cropping Property For Sale NSW

Historic NSW Rural Property For Sale Home To Early Colonial Architecture

‘Digilah Station’ is an historic, highly improved grazing and dryland cropping property for sale situated within the renowned Central West region of New South Wales.

Established in 1854 by Robert Moore Richardson for sheep grazing across 39,500 hectares (16,000 acres), the station is home to remarkable examples of early colonial architecture, including the woolshed with its ironbark posts, Dutch gables and hand-crafted timber fittings, as well as the historic stables and hay barn believed to date back to the Richardson era, which have been meticulously maintained by the vendors, Fay and Bob Callow.

This rural property for sale NSW is an historic, highly improved grazing and dryland cropping operation

Now spanning approximately 1,210.3 hectares (2,990.7 acres), the property offers operational scale with an estimated carrying capacity of up to 10,000 Dry Sheep Equivalents (DSE), historically supporting 500 Angus cows and calves plus 1,200 Merino ewes and lambs.

Flexibility is a key feature of ‘Digilah Station’, providing the best of livestock grazing in addition to dryland cropping opportunities with multiple enterprises such as cattle breeding and fattening, sheep breeding and store lamb production, being equally suited to any combination.

This rural property for sale NSW provides the best of livestock grazing in addition to dryland cropping opportunities

Ranging from creek flats to undulating hills, approximately 120.9 hectares is currently sown to barley while around 757 hectares is planted to improved pastures including Digit Grass, Biserrula, Sub Clover, Phalaris, Lucerne, Rhodes Grass and Medic – underpinned by a mix of alluvial river flats, red-brown earths, grey, brown and red clays, and red basalt hills.

Established perennial native grass and clover pasture is prominent, with scattered pockets of timber across 260.4 hectares and the remainder comprising 50.3 hectares of remnant vegetation.

This rural property for sale NSW benefits from multiple water sources including creek, bores, dams, tanks and troughs

The property has proven ability to be self-sufficient in supplementary feed production as evidenced by the 280 large square bales of oaten and lucerne silage that are included in the sale.

Secure water is provided on ‘Digilah Station’ by multiple sources including an equipped well and four equipped bores supplying approximately 32 tanks and 18 concrete water troughs, supported by around 25 earth dams, the Merrygoen Creek which traverses the property for approximately 3.8km, and three additional unequipped bores.

This rural property for sale NSW includes cattle and sheep yards, shearing shed, machinery and hay sheds, and grain silos

Fit-for-purpose infrastructure includes 200-head steel cattle yards with loading ramp, crush and pound draft, 1,000-head steel sheep yards with loading ramp and drafting race, timber-framed shearing shed with undercover capacity of 1,000 head, two hay sheds, workshop, office, silage pit, grain storage, barn and multiple concrete floor storage sheds.

In addition, the property is securely fenced into approximately 30 main paddocks and several smaller holding paddocks and laneways, with fences in excellent condition ranging in construction from western electric fencing to steel posts with hinge-joint and barb wire.

This rural property for sale NSW features a modern two-bedroom, one-bathroom owner’s residence, constructed circa 2012

There’s also a modern two-bedroom, one-bathroom owner’s residence, constructed circa 2012, with large lounge room, open-plan kitchen and dining area, inground pool and tennis court set amongst sweeping lawns and gardens; a four-bedroom, two-bathroom manager’s residence with large open-plan living and kitchen area, additional dining room and pool; and a three-bedroom workers’ residence.

‘Digilah Station’ is conveniently located only 18km from Dunedoo, 107km from Dubbo and 307km from Newcastle. Key infrastructure is located close by, including include grain receival sites at Dunedoo, Coolah, Mendooran, Dubbo and Merriwa; livestock markets at Dunedoo, Dubbo, Mudgee, Gunnedah and Tamworth, as well as abattoirs at Dubbo, Cowra and Tamworth.