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160 Quarry Lane
Ewingsdale NSW 2481
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The Last of Its Kind on Byron's Doorstep
The Phone Code for this property is: 42458. Please quote this number when phoning or texting.
19 flat, usable acres (7.698ha) at the end of a private country lane - beside nature reserve that can never be built out. 11 minutes to Main Beach, 6 minutes to the highway.
Here is the problem with buying around Byron Bay: every property makes you choose. The blocks in town and on the beach give you position, but they're compact, packed close, and watched by a procession of the passing world. The ridge-line properties give you views and privacy, but the views come from steepness - the land falls away beneath you, and the usable ground shrinks to a house pad and a driveway. The flat country close to town is mostly claimed by wetland - low, wet and constrained - or sits beside busy through roads. And the genuine acreage lies deeper in the hinterland, a long drive from town. Proximity, privacy, views, and flat usable land: around Byron you can usually have two. Sometimes three. Almost never all four.
This property is the exception, and it's why nothing else on the market is a genuine comparison. Nineteen acres of predominantly level, elevated red-soil farmland at the very end of a tightly held lane - the closest expanse of elevated, flood-free farmland to Byron Bay itself. To the north and east lie thousands of acres of permanent nature reserve. That outlook is not "unlikely to change." It is legally incapable of being built out, ever.
On still mornings, you can hear the waves breaking at Byron Bay, two kilometres away.
And from a rooftop deck at the permitted 9-metre height, you look over unbroken forest canopy to the ocean and the Byron headland - because here, the view comes from position beside permanent reserve, not from a ridge you can't use. You are not buying acreage by the acre. You are buying a position that has effectively ceased to exist around Byron Bay - and when this one trades, there is no next one.
A world of your own, minutes from everything
The lane tells the story. You turn off Ewingsdale Road and within moments the traffic, the noise and the tourist churn are gone. A quiet single-lane country road, fewer than a dozen houses along its length, held by a handful of long-term owners across large adjoining holdings - some running to hundreds of acres - and it ends at your gate. No through traffic. No one overlooking you.
And here is something almost no other premium position around Byron can offer: you can actually walk here. Locals walk their dogs down the lane at sunset; wedding photographers seek it out; at the lane's elevated entrance, the hinterland view stops travellers in their tracks - while your end sits beyond it all, private even from the admirers. This is the Byron people came here for thirty years ago, the version everyone says no longer exists. Try that on the ridge roads: fast through-traffic running right behind the houses. Here, the evening walk is out your gate - in time along the rail trail through the forest, or simply a full lap of your own flat nineteen acres, something a steep block can never give you.
And yet:
- 11 minutes to Main Beach, Byron Bay
- 6 minutes to the highway - north to Gold Coast Airport or Brisbane without touching Byron's traffic
- 4 minutes to the Byron Arts & Industry Estate - IGA, Santos organic grocer, the organic butcher, gyms, childcare: the local, everyday Byron
- Minutes to the Cavanbah Centre - the shire's sports hub and the private school bus pick-up
Standing on the land, it's hard to believe Byron is out there at all. Then you drive to Main Beach and you're parking in eleven minutes - or you slip onto the highway heading north and you're gone in six, past the procession queuing out of town. These aren't marketing minutes; they're the ones you'll live every day. This is the distance at which the beach becomes a daily habit instead of a weekend outing.
The rail trail changes everything.
The approved Byron rail trail will run past this property - a flat 5.5 km ride to Main Beach through the forest, on a traffic-free corridor. On an e-bike, roughly ten minutes, door to sand. Virtually no other landholding in the shire will combine end-of-road privacy with a traffic-free corridor straight into town. For lifestyle, extraordinary. For future agritourism or trail-adjacent ventures (STCA), an asset class of its own.
For the strategic buyer
One geographic fact worth sitting with: this is the first turn off the highway into Byron Bay - before the congestion between the highway and the beach, not in it. The approved rail trail runs past the property: a flat, traffic-free 5.5 km to Main Beach. And this is the closest expanse of elevated, level, flood-free land off the highway. Cars arrive here easily, before the congestion. Bikes reach the beach from here easily, on the flat. What sits between those two facts, on land this flat and this large, is for a buyer to consider (STCA).
The land
- Approx. 19 acres of predominantly level, gently elevated farmland - around 8 metres above the surrounding land, naturally well-drained and flood-free
- Deep red volcanic krasnozem soil, among the most productive in the region - a landscaper's dream canvas
- Surface rock removed and stockpiled for landscaping; paddocks professionally filled and levelled
- Magnificent mature fig trees anchoring the landscape
- A secluded southern valley forming a natural amphitheatre
- 11 acres certified Organic In Conversion (Southern Cross); soils tested, chemical-free
- Ideal for horses and arena, subtropical orchards, or agritourism (STCA)
Water, power and infrastructure
- High-yield bore, approx. 700 gallons per hour from fractured basalt
- Lorentz solar pump to a 22,000-litre tank on the high point - gravity-fed across the property
- Town water available. Mains power available.
- Newly planted Bambusa textilis 'Gracilis' screen along the southern and road boundaries - within a couple of seasons, complete
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