241 Lake Barnes Road

Narrikup WA 6326

Excellent water supplies
Good and very adequate improvements
Good well managed pastures
Situated close to Mt Barker and the City of Albany
Close to numerous tourist attractions, National Parks and Pristine Beaches
Area:
64.75 hectares or 160 acres
Location:
The property is situated approximately 5 km West of Narrikup, 33 km's North of Albany and 27 km's South of Mt Barker on Lake Barnes Narrikup and some 390 kms South East of Perth in the Plantagenet Shire.
Services:
Albany is the main regional centre for the Great Southern Region of Western Australia, being situated some 409.00 kilometres to the south east of the Perth metropolitan area. The City of Albany has a population of approximately 35,000 people. Major industries include a deep water port and grain handling facility, along with fish, vegetable and wood chip processing works. The city is also a major tourist destination which receives approximately 500,000 tourist visitors per annum.
There are a number of industries within the City of Albany which provide major employment and these include the Fletchers Meat Works, to the north of Albany and the timber industry. The city is well serviced with shopping facilities including K-Mart and Target. A major redevelopment of the waterfront is now complete which includes a new concert hall, cultural centre and marina together with retail areas to be developed.
Mt Barker also has numerous services, good sporting facilities and requirements plus cattle sale yards.
Zoning:
Rural
Description:
Quality gentle undulating mixed country in a good strong productive region of Western Australia. Originally timbered with ti tree, sheoak, jarrah, redgum and paper bark.

Soil Types:
Good mixed soil types from sandy loams, sand over ironstone over clays with areas of peaty flats and sands. Estimated grazing at 50 to 55 plus hectares of pastures of mixed clovers, ryes and kikuyu grass plus firebreak country. Area of Lake Barnes could be a summer feed area for livestock.
Water:
The property has a good bore at the house for gardens and can also be a good stock supply if so required and also 3 to 4 good dams - soaks on the property to service stock. Excellent water on the property with potential to increase the supplies from a number of areas. Domestic water supplied from rainwater tanks with good adequate capacity.
Rainfall:
Average from 600 to 650 mm.
Rates: app $1,000
Fencing:
Fencing on the property is fenced into four main paddocks with some new fencing and a mix of plain wire and ringlock on steel & wood posts.
Improvements:
Improvements on the property are very adequate and include an old cottage as the shearing shed with sheep yards, an older GP shed as storage, fully enclosed machinery shed plus a meat room by the house and another GP shed at the house for storage and or small workshop. Adequate improvements on the property of this size.
Homestead:
An excellent colour bond and iron large three bedrooms with laundry, bathroom, toilet, and large open kitchen dining and lounge area with verandas on all sides, an enclosed colour bond two vehicle garage plus colour bond fenced yards and a mix of fruit trees.