59 Mundalena Road

Lucindale SA 5272

Property Description

A rare find this close to Lucindale is this 295-acre lifestyle property. The undulating nature of the allotment allows for 360 degree views of the surrounding Lucindale plains.

The property held for 52yrs in a very tightly held district boasting excellent flats and arguably the best high ground in the district in a 600mm rainfall area with regular & generally recognised good & assured winter wet season.

The property has many features including:

- 3-bedroom Stone Home

- Ample Shedding

- Covered Orchard

- Open water reserve

- Excellent grazing flats

- Timber

- And much more.

The house garden has been let-go lately & the house itself though comfortable & practical, could do with a bit of help. House is a 3 BR / 1 Bathroom/ 2 Toilets. Double garage undercover parking.

The house is well situated in the middle of the 295ac with a pleasant outlook, along a well-made road with seclusion. Even locals are not aware of the house.

A good variety of birds are obvious & find refuge here with usually 6 var. of ducks breeding on the swamp & drainage reserve & others about the place, and the first sighting, this year of a spotted nightjar in the pine harvest residue.

This is an ideal hideaway where the present owners have lived & enjoyed the lifestyle presented with a lot of self-sufficiency, aware that it could be a more commercially run.

The Wet land has always been there as early maps show the area as a swamp before the drains went in in 1915 on the southern boundary.

There are 7 stranded coast-lines in the 100km between Naracoorte & the coast & as the land gets wet between those ridges, the water flowed west & then north to escape at Salt Creek in the Coorong. Drains intercepted those flows so swamps were drained & natural diversity suffered.

This reserve displays what was here before & is now a real treasure.

Title Particulars

Section 422, Hundred of Joyce, Area named Lucindale and contained on certificate of title Volume 5940 Folio 750, Consisting of 26.29 Hectares.

- Section48, Hundred of Joyce, Area named Lucindale and contained on certificate of title Volume 5956 Folio 863, Consisting of 93.1 hectares.

- 135 acres - excellent flats with feed. No stock since Nov 2016.

- 54 acres Blue Gum plantation - 20yr old.

- 50 acres Pine harvest residue

- 50 acres - excellent high-ground with feed.

- 5 acres - reserve with permanent wet-land

Improvements

A well-positioned stone home with open living & functional facilities in the middle of 300 acres.

The home features:

- 3 Bedrooms

- Main with walk in robe and bathroom access.

- Open plan lounge/dining

- Kitchen with timber cupboards and electric accessories.

- Double under roof garage

- Large carport area

- 2 x 20x20 rooms off carport

Other improvements include:

- Large Machinery Shed - Approx 56 ft x 50 ft Storage Shed

- Sundry small sheds

- Pump shed with pump infrastructure

- 1 x 28,000 Gallon Iron Tank & 1 x 10,000 Gallon Concrete Tank

Orchard

A covered orchard being some 35m x 20m is a true feature of the allotment with many loving hours put into the area.

Fruit trees are producing far more than the farm can use & includes tasty heirloom varieties.

Peach Varieties include Anzac, Elberta, Golden Queen OHenry, Millicent, Salway, JH Hale, Flavourcrest, Wiggins, Pixie, Sommerset, Loring, Briggs-Red- May, plus others.

Grapes varieties include:- Italia, Ruby Seedless, Blk Muscat, Blk Prince, Sultans, Currant, Perlette, plus others.

Pear trees including :- Glou Morceau, Winter Nellis Josephine, Winter Cole, Fertility, Pound, Dutchess, Beurri Hardy, Beurri Bosc, Doyenne du Comice, Corrella, Packhams, Lemon Bergamont, plus others.

Loquat (grafted to Quince root-stock to prevent trees growing too big) includes: - Enormity, Besstle Brown & Nagisakiwase, all named varieties.

Quince varieties include two different collections bearing well.

Apricot include Blockcot, Divinity, Glengarry, Hunter, Moorpark, Moorpark-early & Trevatt.

Cherries are gone by New-year but as with all fruit, is best left on the tree until it ripens.

Nectarine is still Goldmine although Firebrite & others are there.

Plums include:- Jefferson, Damson, Coes Golden Drop, Coles Golden Gage, Reine-Claude, Angelina, DAgen, Green Gage Magnum Bonum, President, Splendour, Sugar Plum, Black Amber, Elephant Heart, Formosa, Mariposa, Narrabeen, Ruby Blood, Santa Rosa, Satsuma, Wickson, Wilson plus collections.

Apples, apart from giving away, eating fresh, drying & cooking make a nice cider with 200l/yr the past few years. The mill & press can go with the property.

The 50 plus apple varieties include some eaters named as:- Gala, Pink Lady, Mutsu, Golden Delicious, Braeburn, Coxs Orange pippin, Old Delicious, Granny Apple Varieties include : Smith, Gravenstein, Jonathon, Nick-a-Jack, Snow, Rome Beauty, Sundowner, Strawberry Pippin, Stone Pippin, Jersey Mac & Mollys Delicious.

Cider varieties include Stayman Winesap, Cornish Aromatic, London Pippin, Northern Spy, King David, Crab, Golden Harvey, Foxwelp Improved, Browns, & Roxbury Russet.

Cookers include Cleopatra, Dunns Seedling plus a host of collections from old farms where they were grown in a time when self-sufficiency was a necessity.

Apples need cross pollination, so with such a collect