West Coraki NSW 2471

This hidden gem is a home, a small farm, a serene sanctum from city noise and distraction, a hive for your industry or creative arts, or a place for refreshing and renewing, adaptive to your needs.

Enjoy views from the wide full length verandah of the expansive front yard reflecting colours from sun and skies, mists and moonlight. Listen to bird song, frogs, cicadas, crickets, and occasional koala calls from the bush. Be visited by wallabies, kangaroos, lace monitor lizards, butterflies, dragonflies, a small herd of cows and 2 friendly horses. Walk or drive the bush tracks and clearings and enjoy the trees, native flowers and ferns.

The property has 20 hectares of bush and 20 hectares of pasture that is fully fenced into 3 paddocks with 3 dams and wooden stockyards. A solid rock road leads from the gate to the house and a bush road runs from behind the house around the perimeter of the property a separate entrance. The land is mostly flat, with a gentle rise at the northern end. The comfortable modern 2018 council certified home is built on the rise.

2 cabins, located privately from the house, provide the basis for secondary accommodation. The property is zoned rural/farming and has an option to build a second permanent dwelling.

Three tanks hold 69,000 litres of rain water. The home is powered by a 4kw stand-alone solar power system with a concrete block power-house for solar equipment. There also is a greenhouse, small shed and caravan for storage.

The home and cabins are well above major flood lines. A seasonal well-draining flood plain brings a wealth of water birds. The home is protected from fire by its cleared surrounding area and steel firefighting water tank.

Screened windows and doors allow airflow throughout the house, that together with full insulation, curtains, blinds, fans and a portable air conditioner keep the house cool. A wood fire keeps it cosily warm on winter nights.

The gardens are organic with no artificial chemical fertilisers, pesticides or herbicides used. Upkeep on the property is manageable, thinning saplings in pasture areas, clearing odd fallen branches, maintaining control of invasive weeds, checking fences and tracks. Cows and horses keep the grass down in pasture areas.

Council rates are low, house insurance is affordable and power and water are free.

It is located in the south of the Northern Rivers area, 10 minutes’ drive from the river town of Coraki, 25 minutes from Evans Head beaches and river. Driving distances are approximately 30 minutes to Casino, 40 minutes to Lismore and Ballina and less than 2 hours to the Gold Coast. The property sits on the northern edge of the Bungawalbyn sub-tropical and wet sclerophyll State Forest.