182 Bentley Road Tullera NSW 2480

Located just over 6km from Lismore in the red soil hills above the town, perfect for multi family or group buying with a second dwelling permitted. This home is set in a private spot 300m back from the road and overlooking the beautiful Boorie Creek, a rocky bottomed creek with some lovely pools ideal for relaxing on a hot summer’s day.

The house focuses on sustainability, energy efficiency and living with the environment, whilst being modern and very comfortable.

Designed specifically for the site, to take maximum advantage of passive solar heating and the cooling breezes that drift up the valley of a summer evening, this Timbercrete home, with its high thermal insulation, polished concrete floors and low emissivity doors/windows offers seclusion, peace and quiet. Interrupted only by the myriad of birds Tullera is renowned for.

The home has 3 bedrooms, a large kitchen and loungeroom, and a verandah the length of the southern side of the house. The garage and carport accommodate 6 vehicles.

The sustainable credentials of the property are further enhanced by the solar system and solar hot water system.

The property, 10ha, is approximately 50% grassland and 50% rainforest in various stages of restoration with a mix of slopes and gently sloping land including an almost flat 5 acre paddock.

The garden houses 5 raised garden beds just outside the kitchen, with irrigation generally not needed, a sprinkler is applied in dry times and a large chicken pen.

The orchard is about 1/4 hectare and focuses mainly on trees suited to the sub-tropical climate. Trees include two large Pecans, planted primarily for shade but producing lots of nuts annually, Lychees, Persimmons, Loquats, Orange, Lemon, Limes, Mandarine, Cherry Guava, Jaboticaba, Figs, Pomegranate, Olives and Pine Nuts. There are Grapes, Passionfruit, Ginger, Tumeric as well as native fruiting plants scattered throughout. The orchard doesn’t require irrigation.

• 3 bedrooms
• 1 bathroom
• large carport that doubles as an entertaining space
• shed (49m2), parking for 2 cars plus all the farm bits and pieces
• 2 more parking spaces in another carport attached to shed
• 5 doors with metal frames on North side to allow maximum sun penetration onto the slab in winter, 5 doors on the south side to allow breezes to flow through in summer, 2mm metal mesh screens
• Glass – 6.38mm Comfortplus Neutral – low emissivety glass 1.38mm thicker than required by BASIX and Planning for Bushfire.
• Concrete slab is on two layers of waffle pods for max underfloor insulation
• Timbercrete walls – lightweight blocks.
• Low embodied energy – concrete and wood shavings/sawdust – no firing, sun dried like mud bricks. R = 1.02 @ 200mm thick. High fire resistance FRL 240/240/240
• Roof – Colourbond Deep Ocean
• Insulation – R4 Earthwool batts
• Internal walls : Gyprock in kitchen and halls
• Bathroom and laundry – water resistant lining
• Laminated plantation Hoop Pine elsewhere
• One supporting wall – between lounge and bedrooms – Timbercrete
• Internal doors – sliding hollow-filled pocket doors

Water supply
• 1 x 22,500L catchment tank below the house
• 1 x Honda firefighter pump – run approx once a month for 15mins
• 2 x 32,000L tanks at top of the hill for gravity fed water supply for house
• 1 x 22,500L metal tank near yards SWS with 65mm Storz fitting and stock water or back up water
• 1 x 18,000L next to carport near front gate. No particular purpose just there if needed.

Solar hot water – evacuated tube with 300L on ground storage tank

Solar power system – 7.04kW off grid – old system (20 years) replaced with new in 2024 – space to easily triple in size if needed. Panels – 16 x Trina solar vertex S + 440wp n-type. Batteries – 3 x Sungrow battery 3.2kWH. Inverter – 1 x Sungrow 5kW dual mppt single phase hybrid inverter

School bus passes the front gate and will stop for any children. Modanville Primary School is about 6km to the north.

Lismore has a large number and diversity of schools to suit all ages and requirements. Richmond River High is being rebuilt as a state of the art high school but will maintain a focus on agricultural studies. RRH (currently located next to Southern Cross University) is, with 2 other high schools, forms part of The Rivers College to offer the students of the combined schools a greater range of subject and experiences.