43 Fraser Lane, Glen Aplin, QLD 4381

Transform your life here - Views, Privacy, Tranquillity & Serenity - Original brick farm house perched peacefully on the elevated knoll of the rolling hill country with views out of every window, coupled with "farm ready" infrastructure connecting 9 fenced irrigated cultivations suitable for small cropping or livestock. Feel secure with permanent water from the big 40 Mega Litre Spring Fed Dam, surrounded by natural native bushland with natural rock features, creek and waterfall, a complete ecosystem supporting a wide range of native wildlife in your own back yard. Experience all 4 seasons including thick winter snow from time to time. This home, farm & natural environment really is the whole package.

Looking north-west across the Severnlea Valley to the ridges of Bapaume & Passchendaele, the uninterrupted views continue forever. The lights of Stanthorpe offer evening ambiance but pale in comparison to the thunder heads & storm clouds visible as far away as Toowoomba, the Gold Coast & the Northern Rivers.

- 3 very large bedrooms with built in wardrobes & ceiling fans

- Eat in kitchen with large pantry + heaps of cupboards & bench space

- Stainless gas cook top & range hood + stainless Bosch dishwasher

- Stainless wall oven & large pot drawers

- Air conditioned kitchen/dining

- Big cosy lounge room, slow combustion fire place and access to verandah

- Awesome long verandah in perfect position for summer & winter with views to Mt Marley in Stanthorpe capture beautiful sunsets & watch summer storms roll in

- Full ventilation system moves the cool & warm air around the whole house.

- Extra-large laundry / utility room suitable for sewing / study / computer room

- NBN Internet + Wi-Fi

- Puretec filtration and UV light on the domestic water system

- 3 Phase power to house and shed

Surrounding the house

- Fully fenced back yard suitable for pets, kids & grand kids

- 4 car garage with storage & workshop space.

- Irrigated house & veggie gardens

- Enjoy the colours of autumn with feature trees including Japanese Maple, Red Maple, Trident Maple, Sawtooth Oak, Manchurian Pear, Black Alder, numerous Jacarandas, numerous Silky Oaks, original 50 year old Wisteria

- Fire Pit - Elevated with lovely views & sunsets to appreciate + Camp oven cooking

Improvements & Infrastructure make this property "Lifestyle Farm Ready"

- Permanent Water? Large 40 Mega Litre spring fed dam with 18.5kw Southern Cross Irrigation Pump, VFD equipped, with automatic self-cleaning screen filter feeding the underground mains? PLUS 1kw Lowara multistage pump in pump shed that feeds the overhead tank near the house for toilet, garden & chook water

- Smaller spring fed dam that has never run dry in the drought (25,000 Litres per week minimum drought conditions) with 4in Aussie transfer pump with Honda petrol motor

- Stock & domestic dam in western block?

- 3 Separate Titles with power access to all 3 blocks

- 3 phase power to shed and irrigation pump shed

- 9 cultivation areas, all irrigated with 3, 4 and 6 inch PVC mainlines with hydrants/outlets at each separate cultivation area, historically used for sub surface irrigation

- All 9 cultivations have underground drainage (65/100mm slotted pipe topped with 20mm gravel)

- 145acres exclusion fenced area around all cultivations?approx. 3.5km of fencing completed with only minor work to fully finish and enclose?

- Main internal access roads constructed to a commercial standard, roads and tracks allow access to all areas of the property, PLUS, easy access to the feature locations

- Own supply of decomposed granite for roads and tracks on your land

- Over $500,000 in infrastructure improvements not including the 40ML Dam

Potential Farm & Land Uses Include

- Self-sufficient organic living and easy to set up "Off Grid" living..

- Perfect for setting up cabins and Air B & B or farm stay

- Well drained mountain volcanic soil? Mineral rich soil with a long history of sustainable stewardship (soil testing and amelioration records available)

- Small Cropping - Tomatoes, Capsicums, Chilli's, Cucumbers, Zucchini, Eggplant, Pumpkin, Leeks, Garlic, Truffles, and much more

- Grapes, Vineyard & Winery with Cellar Door

- Animal Husbandry - Cattle, Sheep, Goats, Free Range Chickens & Egg Production

Some of the awe inspiring, captivating & secret natural features

- Natural waterfall with gorge like features, callistemon groves lining the rocky creek with beautiful rock formations & outcrops

- Mother's Day Rock (Wait Till You See It)

- Wildlife includes Fallow deer, wallabies & kangaroos, koalas, possums, sugar gliders, spotted quolls just to name a few?

- Birds include pardalotes, honey eaters, blue wrens, finches, red robins, kookaburras, magpies, butcher birds, wedge tail eagles, tawny frog mouth owls, crimson rosellas, rainbow lorikeets, eastern rosellas, galahs, eastern koel, pheasant coucal, channel-billed cuckoo, yellow-tailed black-cockatoo plus many more

- Australian Grass Tree are prevalent throughout the property with some specimens over 1.2m high.

Area Features, Accessibility and Convenience

- 12 minutes to Stanthorpe

- Woolies, Aldi, IGA, wineries, restaurants, farm supplies, hardware

- Excellent doctors & hospital facilities in Stanthorpe

- All local needs in Stanthorpe

- Warwick 45min - Main regional town for all regional needs + private school

- 2 hours to Toowoomba with some of the best doctors & specialists you will find

- 4 min to Glen Aplin State School

- 20 min to Girraween & Sundown National Parks

There is only 1 property like this in the whole greater Stanthorpe district and it could be yours to create the sustainable, appreciative, natural lifestyle we all crave deep in our souls.

Call Tim Heffernan now to book a private inspection.