QLD Cattle Property For Sale For First Time In 150 Years!

1,148.3 Hectare Cattle Property For Sale Five Minutes From Beach

They don’t come much rarer than this: 1,148.3 hectares (2,837 acres) of prime freehold cattle country located less than five minutes from the beach, offered for sale for the first time in more than 150 years!

This remarkable cattle property for sale, ‘Leighstone’, was originally part of the larger ‘Muralambeen Homestead’, first developed by pioneering pastoralist Christopher Allingham in 1875.

Cattle Property For Sale Queensland

This cattle property for sale QLD offers 1,148.3 hectares of prime grazing country located less than five minutes from the beach

The holding was handed down through the generations before being divided in the mid-1980s among the Allingham brothers – Gordon, Gerald and Robert. Current owner Patricia Fuller inherited the property from her father Gerald.

Located less than five minutes’ drive from Forrest Beach near Ingham, the property boasts a long history of successful cattle breeding.

Cattle Property For Sale Queensland

This cattle property for sale QLD is largely flat with ample high land for cattle to graze and plenty of timbered country for shade

The large land holding is predominantly flat and features black loam soil with clay and sandy ridges. There is ample high land for cattle to graze in wet weather and some 280 hectares of timbered country offering plenty of shade.

Pasture improved grasses cover about 80 per cent of the property, including pangola, brachiaria, humidicola, and setaria in addition to native species including swamp couch and paragrass.

Cattle Property For Sale Queensland

This cattle property for sale QLD boasts town water plus several creeks, numerous bores and swamp land

Secure water is a key asset of the property, with town water supplemented by several creeks, around 12 bores and natural swamp land that has water most of the year round. One bore has a windmill and two are equipped with solar pumps.

What’s more, ‘Leighstone’ benefits from first-class infrastructure improvements.

Cattle Property For Sale Queensland

This cattle property for sale QLD includes cattle yards with new double-decker loading ramp and newly constructed calf-branding facility

The property is boundary fenced with 10 paddocks created from internal fencing. All fences are in good condition. The five paddocks which face Forrest Beach Road are supplied with town water.

A laneway extends from the Pump Station Paddock along Forrest Beach Road towards the timber and steel cattle yards which feature a new double-decker loading ramp and newly constructed calf-branding facility. Accessed via an all-weather gravel road, the yard has an estimated capacity of 300 head.

Cattle Property For Sale Queensland

This cattle property for sale QLD features a laneway system that extends from the Pump Station Paddock towards the cattle yards

‘Leighstone’ currently runs around 1,400 head of cattle all year round. Some 430 Brahman cross cows with 180 calves at foot and 10 Brahman bulls are included in the sale.

Opportunities like this don’t come up often! Click on the following link for more information on this unique cattle property for sale Queensland at Forrest Beach Road, Forrest Beach.

 

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