Labertouche retreat at 18 McDonald Road ideal for mixed farming on market for $1,595,000

This private Gippsland retreat features a full renovated homestead, established gardens and a permanent creek.

18 McDonald Road Labertouche is for sale with an asking price of $1,595,000

LINKS with pioneering sawmillers and an Australian sporting icon add to the sparkles of interest around this private Gippsland retreat, 10 minutes from the southern edge of the sprawling Bunyip State Park.

Located at Labertouche, 14km from Drouin, the property offers a fully renovated homestead, established gardens, enviable soils and a permanent creek home to some intriguing aquatic life.

Mark and Marg Anderson have owned the block for six years after moving from Warragul.

“This place was originally cleared by the Tonkins, who operated a sawmill and used to send their logs into town on a narrow-gauge rail line that partly ran through here,” Mark said.

Labertouche supplied pics WT property

“This area, of course, is also known as Jackson’s Track, birthplace of Lionel Rose (world bantamweight champion in the late 1960s and the first Aboriginal to win a world boxing title).

“When we took it over, the place had been empty for six months, but still had all the right frameworks to become a really nice property again.

“The past six years have seen us totally renovate the house and develop the farmland – even opening up the creek to the extent that we now have crayfish and blackfish down there as well as a protected species of yabbies.

“We’ve put up new fencing, sprayed blackberries, drained a couple of paddocks and fertilised consistently over that time.

“This area is known as ‘the green belt of Gippsland’, with beautiful soil and plenty of rain – one eight-acre paddock yielded 82 bales of silage this season.

“We also manage a Limousin stud here called Riva Creek, currently running 30 cows, calves and heifers.”

LABERTOUCHE

18 McDONALD RD

Property: mixed farming, lifestyle

Size: 16ha

Sale: private

Price: $1,595,000

Agent: Alex Scott and Staff

Contact: John Patterson, 0413 565 408

Labertouche supplied pics WT property

Reached via a 100m driveway, the house provides four bedrooms, two bathrooms, modern kitchen with Caesar stone benchtops, open-plan dining area, family room with wood heater and second living area with study.

There’s ceramic tile flooring throughout, split-system airconditioning and patios on two sides, one including a covered entertaining area.

The gardens feature a fountain over an ornamental pond stocked with goldfish, mature exotic trees, a gazebo and busy vegetable patch.

Divided into six paddocks, the property has fenced shelter belts, a 30m-long workshop which includes a bar, two hay sheds and cattle yards with new crush.

Water comes from a spring-fed dam (stocked with perch), pumped to troughs and garden taps, and from Labertouche Creek, which meanders through the property.

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