Area: 1,273ha (3,144ac). Plus 210.3ha (520ac) available to purchase.
Quality Basalt Grazing Country with high carrying capacity. Close to town.
To be offered as a whole or in 2 separate lots.
Approximate areas 1,273ha (3,144ac) “Rockleigh Station”
210.3ha (520ac) “Rockleigh North”
Situation: 25kms east of Inverell on Kings Plains Road, 50kms west of Glen Innes.
Altitude: 740m – 868m ASL 29degrees 42′S, 151degrees 20′E.
Services: 3 Phase Power. Phone. Broadband Internet. Mail 3 times per week. 1km to school bus with 3 Primary and 2 secondary schools at Inverell. Air services, Armidale or Moree – Sydney. Saleyards at Inverell, being the 6th largest selling centre in the state, weekly fat cattle & sheep sales, monthly store cattle sales. Export abattoir at Inverell. Inverell is one of the major shopping and service centres of northern NSW.
Country: Undulating with some timbered, approx. 255.06ha, (630ac) arable and contoured.
Good Black Basalt (some red) 65%, trap 15% and timbered 20%.
Pasture
Development: Whole property has been managed as cell grazing operation, good cover of
native pasture including Paspalum, Summer Grass, Wallaby, Danthonia, Kikuyu and Red grass.
Recently sown 101.2ha (250ac) Sardi 5 Lucerne.
Timber: Yellow Box, White Box, Apple, Gum on open country, some stringy timbered
country.
Water: Well watered by troughs, 35dams (8 large dams), springs and 3 creeks.
Large spring fed dam equipped with electric motor and mono pump, pumping
to 45,000ltr tank and reticulating to troughing.
Rainfall: 810mm (32″).
802mm av Inverell Research Weather Station 26kms west 664m altitude.
907mm av Mt Topper weather station 30kms south 870m altitude.
763mm av Inverell comparison weather station 24kms west 584m altitude.
Fencing: Boundary – Netting and Hingejoint, mostly good, some new.
Subdivision – 25 paddocks with hingejoint, barb wire and electrified plain wire,
mostly good, some new.
Improvements: “Rockleigh Station”
Homestead: 220m2, 4 B/R, W/B home, near new kitchen and bathroom,
freshly repainted, gardens, tennis court.
Sheds: 18.5m x 18.5m, half concrete workshop, half machinery.
9.2m x 6.1m chemical shed, 12.3m x 12.3m hay shed. 9.2m x 6.1m hay shed.
12.3m x 6.1m bulk grain shed, concrete floor (150tonne).
2 x 50tonne cone base silos.
Cattle Yards : Timber cattle yards, mesh and steel panel including stock and
calf crush, can hold 800 head.
Sheep Yards: Galvanised metal sheep yards, including bugle force yard, draft gates,
work race, 6 yards and force race up to wool shed.
Woolshed: 3 stand, good inside and under shed yards.
Carrying
Capacity: Approximately 8,000 dse or 540 breeders.