Property Details: • Type: Rural Lifestyle

• Bedrooms: 4 • Bathrooms: 3

Description: This magnificent, architect designed, solar-passive home offers peace and absolute privacy with stunning views. The elevated, flood-free property has a balance of pasture and bushland along with approximately 900m of frontage to the beautiful Nymboida River. Just 15 minutes from Dorrigo, enter the property through the solar-powered, automatic gate from which the all-weather access driveway takes you to the homestead. The property is off-grid, powered by an 8 kw solar system with lithium battery bank and back-up generator (all new in late 2022). Solar hot water with automatic gas back-up and satellite NBN. The modern home offers 3 generous bedrooms, study, 2 bathrooms, 2 toilets and loads of open plan living area with the perfect northerly aspect. There's also a luxurious separate studio with kitchen, 1 bedroom and bathroom that enjoys the same stunning views. There is a newly constructed 9x6m garage with shelving and work space plus another shed made by utilising 2 shipping containers. The enclosed timber deck between the containers is currently used as a home gymnasium complete with views over the river. There is a 5 bay shed (3 open and 2 lock-up bays) with a 1300L overhead diesel tank for farm machinery. All structures are council DA approved. There's a beautiful wood-fired sauna, outdoor shower and for the kids, a treehouse and play equipment. Add landscaped gardens, enclosed vegetable garden with raised beds and fruit trees plus a chook house/yard. Water security is a feature of the property with 70,000L of tank storage, another 15,000L tank for garden use (with its own pressure pump) plus a 10,000L tank attached to the 5 bay farm shed which gravity feeds to a 5m concrete stock trough. A pipe from the river to the house tanks serves as a back-up supply measure. There are 2 dams on the property (1 spring-fed) and 2 creeks. A short stroll from the house takes you to the luxurious riverside gazebo and amazing swimming hole, complete with your own zip-line. The river's inhabitants include platypus, turtles, fish and crustaceans. Enjoy hours at this private riverside paradise, enjoying activities such as swimming, fishing, kayaking, stand-up paddle boarding, barbeques and open fire place. The property is well fenced into 7 paddocks, each with its stock water supply. The current owners run about 35 head of beef cattle year-round which provide extra income as well as their own home grown meat. There are steel cattle yards with loading ramp and crush. The area has some of the highest rainfall in NSW and a pleasant climate at approximately 700m above sea level. Native wildlife abounds on the property including koala, quolls, gliders, echidna, powerful owl, white-bellied sea eagle, wedge-tailed eagle, parrots and rosellas, wrens, platypus and eastern freshwater cod. Scientists have visited the property to study the numerous glossy black-cockatoos and the resident lyrebird often entertains from his repertoire. In recognising the high biodiversity value of the property's flora and fauna, a 7.6ha conservation area has been registered by the current owners as an in-perpetuity agreement with the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust. This riparian zone along the entirety of the property's Nymboida frontage is fenced from stock and has been the target of significant funded regeneration works. The current owners have also recently entered into an agreement with Local Land Services who will conduct further weed control and replanting of natives to improve koala habitat as part of the DPI/LLS Koala Project. Contact us for your own private inspection. Phone enquiry code for this property : 6905