577.22ha or 1,426.3 acres

Otterbourne is located just 16 kms from the regional city of Armidale with bitumen road frontage via the Enmore Road. With school bus to Armidale from the front gate.

The property is highly arable, fenced into 34 main paddocks with outstanding water security. Otterbourne has absolute frontage to both Saumerez Creek and Salisbury Waters. Stock water is complemented with approximately 30 earthen dams.

The improvements on the property include a 3 bedroom home with an open plan kitchen and dining area, separate lounge room, combustion wood fire plus a detached 2 bay garage with a storage, woodshed and meat house.

The livestock handling infrastructure comprises a 2 stand electric woolshed with attached sheepyards and a set of cattleyards. A machinery / hay shed approx 16m x 13m, 3 x Leon Cook silo’s.

The property is a mix of trap rock, ironstone and basalt soils which have benefited from an ongoing fertiliser application program. There is an onsite agricultural airstrip. The pasture base is a mixture of native species and long standing introduced perennial grasses. The average annual rainfall for the area is approximately 30 inches per annum.

Otterbourne is a highly usable parcel of land with undulating terrain that is conducive to pasture improvement. The current owners have maintained a comprehensive weed management program, consequently Otterbourne has a very low noxious weed burden.

The property contains multiple titles within two separate council boundaries. There are approximately 401.4 ha in the Armidale Regional Council and 175.82 ha in the Uralla Shire Council.

Auction Friday 24th November 2017, 11.00 am, Armidale Ex-services club.