Situation & Services:
110km Northwest of Bourke, 42km from Fords Bridge.
Rural Power, Telephone, UHF Tower & Aerial, Mail twice weekly from Bourke.
Area:
8,727 Hectares (21,565 Acres)
Fixed Charges:
Bourke Shire Council Rates: $2190.05 per annum (Approx.)
Western Lands Rental: $795.00 per annum (Approx.)
Local Lands Services Rates: $749.00 per annum (Approx.)
Border Fence Rates: $495.00 per annum (Approx.)
Improvements:
The homestead is a 5-bedroom clad transportable home. The main bedroom includes an ensuite & walk-in robe, with all other bedrooms with built-in robes. The rest of the home includes an office, carpet throughout, gauzed verandah, wood fire, gas stove & electric hot water service. A ducted evaporative air conditioner cools the home and a reverse cycle unit is located in the 5th bedroom.
Outside the homestead there is a 6x4ft cool room, 5000G Manacon Tank meat house. The house yard is secured by a chain wire fence and has a large secure dog run.
18x10m Steel frame machinery shed and workshop with steel and timber benches, shelving & storage room. 60% with a concrete flood. Power and 5000G poly tank connected. Adjacent to the shed is a 20ft shipping container & steel racks.
4 Stand, steel framed woolshed is used for loading goats. Large set of sheep/goat yards lead into the woolshed.
Two hinged joint trap yards are located on "Strathern", one with goat drafting facilities.
Country:
Flat to gently undulating soft sandy loam & red soils with a gypsum base. Some small areas of rocky outcrops.
Moderate to thick timber and shrubs with good areas of semiopen and scattered Mulga, good areas of Box Flats, swamps & watercourses. Small areas of open flats.
Timber comprises of Mulga, Box Belah, Ironwood with some Rosewood, Beefwood, Bloodwood & Lemonwood.
Vegetation comprises of Wiregrass, Woolly butt, Silvergrass, Speargrass plus Spinach, seasonal herbages and Trefoil Clover in the watercourse country.
Fencing:
The entire boundary is all 8/90/30 steel hinged joint. There is a 800 acre holding paddock adjacent to the house and yards.
Water:
Artesian House Bore with electric pump that supplies water to the sheep/goat yards at the woolshed, two nearby troughs and the two trapped goat enclosures by poly pipe. There are five ground tanks and waterholes at the gypsum mine.
Carbon:
There is an Avoided Deforestation Carbon Project attached to "Strathern". Full details provided to qualified purchasers after signing an NDA.
Remarks:
"Strathern" is suited to run a goat and dorper operation rated at 1,818 D.S.E and the current has harvested between 750 and 1400 goats per annum. Adjoining "Old Ellavale" is being offered independently allowing a buyer to put together a total of 39,367 acres if they wish.
The size of Fords Bridge is approximately 3777.0 square kilometres. There are 3 parks within the area. The population of Fords Bridge in 2016 was 54 people. By 2021 the population was 30 showing a population decline of 44.4% in the area during that time. The predominant age group in Fords Bridge is 40-49 years. Households in Fords Bridge are primarily couples with children and are likely to be repaying $300 - $449 per month on mortgage repayments. In general, people in Fords Bridge work in a managers occupation.In 2021, 57.10% of the homes in Fords Bridge were owner-occupied compared with 59.10% in 2016.
Fords Bridge has 48 properties. Over the last 5 years, Houses in Fords Bridge have seen a -2.57% decrease in median value. As at 30 September 2026:
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