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Set on 67 acres with over 650m of absolute saltwater Richmond River frontage on Byron Bay's Doorstep is this spectacular and entirely unique property located only a 19 minutes drive from Byron Bay Gateway Airport and a 34-minute drive from the heart of Byron Bay.
Built by renowned architect John Eggins and designed and built for the riverfront position, the home is spacious, sprawling and encompasses two storeys. Offering unparalleled water views from the main living areas and many of its rooms and long covered decks on both levels.
Every room is generously sized and beautifully finished, with air-con and ceiling fans throughout for comfort; there are 5 bedrooms plus a 6th bedroom or large office with river views, a well-equipped kitchen, living rooms on both levels, four full bathrooms, and an extra-large double garage.
Your own private jetty is just outside your door and adjacent to Pimlico Island. You can cruise or fish up or down the Richmond River or head for the coastline about 11km up the river to the headlands at Ballina.
Just 4.4km as the crow flies to the coastline, you can feel the beautiful sea breezes which make this a wonderful place to live.
An additional 4 bedroom timber residence plus sunroom farmhouse is currently rented at $350 per week ('currently mates rates').
A stand-out of this property is the 550m grass airstrip (north/south direction) with a 18x24x5m aircraft hanger.
This aircraft training complex previously had an Air Operator's Certificate from the Civil Aviation Safety Authority for commercial operations and is now being used for private flight training operations. The hanger provides plenty of room for aircraft storage as well as 2 lecture rooms, a 2 bedroom student accommodation, full guest kitchen, bathroom, storerooms and mezzanine storage area.
In addition, there's a fully lockable 5-bay steel shed (15x8m) with roller doors and cement floor, plus a 4-bay machinery shed (3.2m high) with two open bays, one lockable bay with cement floor and a workshop bay with power and roller door.
The laser-levelled, frost and flood free property currently has approximately 6000 macadamia trees, including 4000 of Variety 344, 1500 of Variety 849, and 1000 of MCT to be planted this month. The entire farm is serviced by solar and feeds credit back to the grid. The property has wireless NBN, and good mobile phone coverage.
Water is plentiful with a 5 meg stock and domestic bore license (bore with electric submersible pump) with 160,000L storage tank, and an additional approx 250,000L of rainwater storage; water can be transferred to all dwellings either way. Property has never run out of rainwater even in the most severe of drought.
This rare offering is just 19km to Byron Airport (flight to Sydney approximately 1 hr 15 minutes), 15km drive to Ballina, and just 4.7km to Wardell shops.
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