Property of the week: Gowan Hills provides grazing land

Located about 10 kilometres north west of Wirrabara on the Port Germein Road is Gowan Hills, an outstanding sheep grazing property originally part of Wirrabara Station.

There is easy access to the property with road on three sides and bitumen road frontage.

The property has undulating fertile brown loamy soils to hills with reefy outcrops and open grazing country with deep gullies.

Scattered belts of box and red gum trees provide ideal stock shelter.

There is about 81 hectares of arable land, which has mainly been sown for feed purposes. 

There is a high average rainfall of about 570mm.

Water options include two equipped bores, an equipped well at the home that pumps to various holding tanks and troughs, and numerous dams and natural springs.

There is an equipped bore at the Wongyarra block that pumps water to a holding tank at the home.

There are 12 main paddocks with excellent fencing, the majority being replaced in the past two years due to fire.

Fences consist of mainly six-line cyclone with barb at the bottom and plain wire at the top with steel posts and droppers.

There is a comfortable three-bedroom freestone home built around 1914.

There are numerous rainwater tanks connected to the house with about 94,635 litres of storage.

The property has various shedding including a fully enclosed steel frame machinery shed, a three-stand shearing shed with original stone construction, three new Heiniger electric shearing plant, and a holding capacity of 500 sheep, including a holding shed.

Steel frame sheep yards have a holding capacity of about 1500 sheep. 

This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to acquire a very productive grazing property in a tightly held area having been in the Curnow family for 100 years.