Historic Butmaroo Station	Bungendore NSW
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Butmaroo Station is undoubtedly one of the outstanding rural holdings in the Bungendore/Canberra district of southern New South Wales.

Purchased in 2001, the property has been expanded and now includes 2,381 acres (963 ha) of mainly well developed, pastured country, straddling the Great Dividing Range.

Over the past decade management has focussed on increasing the performance of the Station with emphasis on pasture development, water, fencing and improving operating facilities.

Key features of Butmaroo Station include:-

• Excellent situation in the popular and picturesque Bungendore district, 15kms from the historical village of Bungendore, 85kms Goulburn, 48kms Canberra and approx. 40 mins to Canberra International Airport, and 285kms from Sydney via the Hume Highway.  The coast is 90kms (Batemans Bay) and the ski fields 240kms (Thredbo).
• Located in its own valley – well sheltered valley country ranging from alluvial creeks to soft granite slopes country.
• Straddles the Great Divide with approx. 450 acres eastern fall and the balance well protected westerly country. Naturally protected by the Tallaganda National Park on the southern boundary.
• Approx. 90% sown to high performance pastures – cocksfoot, phalaris, rye, fescue, sub and white clovers.
• Heavily top dressed with both lime and single super.
• Outstanding water - permanent double frontage to Butmaroo Creek, large dams in most paddocks (some ornamental), and an equipped bore near the homestead.
• Excellent rainfall, 30 inches per annum – located 800m to 830m above sea level.
• Well fenced, subdivided into approx. 36 main paddocks. Efficient livestock laneway feeding livestock to the centrally located cattle and sheep yards.
• Butmaroo Homestead (circa 1900), architecturally extended and renovated in 1988 in to a 5 bedroom contemporary home with open plan design, in-slab heating, easy care gardens and tennis court.
• Two excellent staff cottages
• Complete operating improvements - including 4 stand wool shed with steel sheep yards attached, 2 hay sheds, silos, large steel and timber rail cattle yards with bugle feed and undercover vet crush, and fully updated shearer’s quarters, which also are utilised as guest accommodation.
• Excellent livestock country, suitable for breeding and fattening, rated to carry approx. 9,000 – 10,000 DSE’s of either sheep or cattle.
• Subdivision potential – with its closeness to both Bungendore and Canberra.
• Equipped with agricultural airstrip.

Professional management program – the property has been run as a sustainable and profitable farming/grazing unit, with continued attention to capital improvements and increased production efficiencies. Butmaroo Station is now a well developed livestock breeding and fattening property with an excellent balance between lifestyle and a sound profit-making rural investment.

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