385 Stager Road

Mirriwinni QLD 4871

Tucked away on approx. 2.91 hectares (approx. 7 acres) with an unnamed creek winding along the boundary, this Queenslander is the kind of property that lets you shut the gate on the outside world. Mornings here start with birdsong and the sound of water rather than traffic, and the sense of space is immediate, from the sweeping under-roof area with room for approximately four vehicles beneath the house, to the further two-car shed set among the grounds. Three bedrooms and one bathroom complete a home built for a slower, more grounded way of living.

There is real romance in this land's story. The Queenslander itself once stood at the Edmonton Sugar Mill, before being relocated to this site in the early 1980s, and the property sits on ground once touched by North Queensland's first coffee plantation. A private swimming hole along the creek offers a place to cool off on a summer afternoon, while the partly cleared grounds leave room to imagine what comes next, whether that is a cabin among the trees, a vegetable garden, or simply a paddock for horses.

The land's history reaches back to 1897, when the estate, then known as Hillville, was established by the Hon. E. and R. de Moleyn as one of North Queensland's pioneering coffee plantations, set on a scenic bend of the creek between Mount Bellenden Ker and Mount Bartle Frere. Under later owners De Moleyn & Butter, Hillville Estate Coffee grew into one of Queensland's most awarded brands, taking first prize at the Brisbane, Toowoomba and Townsville shows and earning appointment as official purveyor to the Governor-General and Government House, Melbourne. By 1902, Hillville was reported as the largest coffee plantation in Australia, spanning some 80 acres of coffee alongside sugar cane, cocoa and vanilla, serviced by its own dedicated coffee mill. The original homestead and mill were lost to fire in 1911, closing out the estate's plantation era, but this seven-acre parcel is the original homestead block, and the home offered for sale today sits on those same original footings, a direct physical link to Hillville's remarkable nineteenth-century origins.

Property Highlights:

3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom

Queenslander on approx 7 acres

Unnamed creek forms part of the boundary

Private creek frontage with a swimming hole

Remnants of a water race dating to the 1800s, linked to North Queensland's first coffee plantation

Large area under roof, with approx. 4 cars accommodated underneath the house