22 Flinders Street

Cooktown QLD 4895

The internal combined workshop and laundry, and separate garden tool/store room complete the picture at the rear of the house.

The property includes an extra terraced area at the side of and higher than the house suitable for outdoor entertaining and even more exceptional views.

Add a deck to the front of the house and relax in privacy.

Do something or do nothing, either way a great home to simply move in and enjoy, or rent out with potential rent return of up to $450 per week.

Some maintenance is required and owners will consider all reasonable offers.

Features include:

Large kitchen with gas stove and oven, plenty of storage and polished timber benchtops

Separate expansive lounge room with floor to ceiling windows

Spacious dining room

3 generous sized bedrooms one extra large

Home office or study

Combined workshop and internal laundry

Central internal store room

Extra room with shelving and doors to front yard

2nd tool room/store room off the workshop opening into back yard

Air conditioned lounge, bedrooms and office

Concrete driveway

Fully re-roofed in 2018

New modern septic system installed 2022

1,421m2 - larger than 1/4 acre

All town services connected

Property Code: 115

Contact Richard Rudd on 0418931096 to book your virtual or private inspection.

COOKTOWN:
Cooktown is justifiably famous as the site of the first white 'settlement' in Australia when Captain James Cook, having struck the Great Barrier Reef off the coast north of Cape Tribulation, struggled up the coast and beached the H.M. Barque Endeavour on the shores of the Endeavour River. Cook and his crew were to stay on the river's edge from 17 June to 4 August 1770. Today, with a sealed road from Port Douglas and Cairns, it has become a popular northern point for those not wanting to make the long, arduous and difficult journey to the top of Cape York. It is a charming town which wears its history - lots of statues of Captain Cook and several impressive buildings constructed during the gold mining boom at Palmer River in the 1880s - with ease. In recent times it has been driven by tourism and, particularly, fishing.

Location
Cooktown is located 328 km (by the inland road) and 244 km (by the coast road and the Bloomfield Track) from Cairns. It is 1,987 km north of Brisbane.
Origin of Name
Cooktown was the site where Captain James Cook (after whom the town is named) beached, and repaired, the H.M. Barque Endeavour on the shores of the Endeavour River after it had struck the Great Barrier Reef near Cape Tribulation. Cook and his crew stayed from 17 June to 4 August, 1770. The settlement was originally known as Cook's Town but on 1 June, 1874 it was officially renamed Cooktown.
Things to See and Do
Down Charlotte Street
The best way to start appreciating the richness of Cooktown is to take a long and leisurely walk down the main street (Charlotte Street). On one side are impressive historic buildings - a reminder of the wealth that once flowed through the town - and on the other side is parkland with a variety of memorials as well as unique attractions like the Musical Ship and the unusual sculpture celebrating the contribution of the Chinese to the community.
Cook Memorials
There are no fewer than six Cook monuments in the town. There is a cairn at the place where he beached the Endeavour, another smaller monument a few metres away, a Bicentennial statue of the Captain in a nearby park, and a huge civic monument on Charlotte Street which was designed by George St Paul Connolly in the office of the Queensland Colonial Architect and built in 1887.