537 O'Briens Creek Road

Big Springs NSW 2650

A dedicated wing of the home houses four bedrooms, the main with walk in wardrobe, ensuite and private courtyard. Your kitchen has an abundance of storage space, walk in pantry, granite benchtops and a handy breakfast bar. Every room has a relaxed rural view.
In addition to all this, there is also a fully self contained granny flat with a separate living space with galley style kitchen, bedroom with built in wardrobes and study nook, bathroom and laundry.
With too many features to list, an inspection of 'Rawlinna' is a must for anyone wanting their own piece of rural paradise.
Rawlinna It s Location
20 minutes from Wagga Base Hospital
Tar road to front gate
1.3 km driveway re-gravelled and graded
15 minutes from Forest Hill Airport Sydney and Melbourne services (Qantas Link and REX)
Rawlinna It s House and Garden
Built with commanding views down O Brien s Cr. Valley and across to Talbingo Mountain (east of Tumut)
Each room has a relaxed rural view
Extensive use of cedar floor to ceiling double-hung window units
Brass door furniture
Double brick (living area) and brick-veneer construction (bedrooms)
2.7m ceilings
4 x bedroom; main with en suite
Self-contained flat with bedroom, en suite, lounge and laundry
Lounge room
Large dining room
Large games room
Family room with parquetry flooring
Sun room
Kitchen with granite bench tops
New off-peak HWS (August 2013)
Rainwater tanks: 3 x 20,000L and 1 x 10,000L
3 Phase power to house
8,000 CFM evaporating cooler with new pads and motor
Garaging for 3 vehicles
Beautiful garden with mature trees and a windbreak of trees that has now been incorporated to form the garden s western boundary
Watering system - the house is encircled by a 2 ring main that supplies 13 sprinkler stations .
Fire protection ring main fills an 8,000L overhead tank at the back of the house. A new fire fighting pump (December 2011) is plumbed into this tank and is fitted with a 60m fire hose on a wind-up reel (system not reliant on electricity).
Swimming pool has a capacity of 80,000L and is filled from the large dam; pool fitted with a new chlorinator early January 2013; gazebo; 240V power outlet

Rawlinna It s Farming Details (31 December 2013)
Area: 125 ac. (51 ha)
3 paddocks
Stock watering - 3 dams, 1 x trough
Carrying capacity: 25 cows plus calves OR 46 x 350 kg store black-baldy vealers.
Have run 260 hoggets on lucerne (cattle yard paddock) for 4 months.
Cattle/sheep yards: all steel; will comfortably hold 40 vealers or 260 hoggets.
Paddock histories:
Front yard:
Share-farmed with neighbour for 5 years wheat x 3 years; oats x 1; triticale x 1 (1982 - 1986)
Limed in 1997 1 T/ac.
Sown down to phalaris/cocksfoot/rye/clover mix in 1998
Cattle yard Paddock:
April 2002 limed at 1 T/ac.
August 2003 Roundup CT and Glean.
May 2004 Roundup, Amicide, ester.
July 2004 Roundup CT, Striker.
7 October 2004 Sow lucerne (Genesis) at 8 kg/ha.
April 2010 Roundup Powermax, Surpass, Hammer.
May 2010 Ryegrass (Atomic, Tetila, Victorian) and clover (Balansa and Riverina) mix.
Large Dam Paddock:
January 2006 limed at 1 T/ac.
April 2006 Roundup, Powermax
April 2006 Oats (Yarren) and clover mix (Balansa, Persian, Riverina and Seaton Park).
Weed control: Maintenance program for Bathurst Bur, blackberries and Scotch Thistle.
Large Dam capacity: 10,500m3 hole, 7m deep.
Additional 1.5m depth when full have never calculated the additional capacity that backs up the creek, but have video footage of this creek in flood.
Dam s surface large enough to operate a power boat!
Pump: New Davey VM Series 2.2 kW multistage 3 ph pump (installed 23 December 2012). Set at 85 psi, will run 12 Rainbird Maxi Pore sprinklers .
Back-up pump: reconditioned Southern Cross 2.2 kW 3 ph pump.
Bore: Completed 6 February 2002: Licence No.: 40BL188531 issued 4 February 2002.
Standing water level: 51m.
Final depth: 91m.
Casing: Class 12 PVC; 125mm OD; 61.8m cased.
Yield: 0.8L/sec from 60m (2,880L/hr)