191 Thunderbolts Way, Walcha, NSW 2354

An outstanding New England rural estate.

Situated in the renowned Walcha district, Round Hill comprises 51.47 ha (127.18 acres) of beautifully pastured private land, bounded on 3 sides by a double strip of mature trees providing absolute privacy, with a sealed 825m avenue from the front ramp to the homestead bounded by mature Aspen trees on both sides. 

Located about 1km from the central part of the Walcha township, with its coffee shops, hotels, retail and commercial services, Round Hill abounds the town boundary with the thriving regional Walcha Jockey Club racecourse on its western boundary. The property was originally the site of the Walcha Golf Club until 1936.

Hidden in the middle of the property is an extremely comfortable 5 bedroom brick homestead (circa 1991) with 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms and sits in 5 acres of one of the outstanding gardens in rural northern NSW with magnificent Hans Model designed and constructed stone walls and terraces, and featuring an array of mature English trees, ponds and interspersed irrigated shrubs and gardens.

With regular daily air services from both Sydney and Brisbane to both Armidale and Tamworth Round Hill is the perfect rural retreat for a city dweller wishing to have an established country farm, or a rural person wishing to downsize and enjoy a spacious homestead in beautiful surroundings which today are totally private, developed and there to enjoy.

The scenic and well-developed high performance pastured farm which can fatten anywhere from 50 to 100 cattle, includes over 5,000 established planted trees and features:

*  A fully developed and serviced 50.4 ha (124.6 acres) – town water, bore water, mains power, and solar power.
*  Excellent farm improvements with garden/machinery shed, a separate farm shed, all steel cattle yards.
*  A park like coverage of shade and shelter timber, with the farm divided into 11 main paddocks, all sown to improved high performance pastures and regularly top dressed.
*  Excellent water - paddocks and homestead garden water supplied from electric bore with water reticulated direct to homestead and troughs in all paddocks. Also connected to town water supply.
*  A working farm – normally carrying 40 to 50 backgrounding steers with up to 100 in peak seasons.
*  Absolute privacy – nearly 3km - over 5,000 trees have been planted, around the boundary in particular. Species include Leylandii Pines, Catoniastas, Poplars, Pin oaks, wattles, bottle brushes and eucalyptus.