3022 North West Coastal Highway, Howatharra, WA, 6532

For Sale

3022 North West Coastal Highway, Howatharra, WA, 6532

Suit Buyers Mid $550,000 region

0 m²

1.04 ha.

AcreageSemiRural

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What's around 3022 North West Coastal Highway

NOW SELLING - UNPARRELED RURAL LIFESTYLE OPPORTUNITY

NOW SELLING There are places that announce themselves quietly, and then there are places that arrive all at once in the lift of a sea breeze, the long gold of late afternoon light across paddock grass, and the sudden knowledge that the horizon has opened. 3022 North West Coastal Highway, Howatharra, is one of those rare arrivals. On 1.04 hectares of Mid West earth, framed by the highway yet held in a pocket of rural stillness, this property does not merely occupy land. It occupies a way of living. Stand on the block and the country reveals itself in layers. Red earth and native trees give way to fenced pasture and the distant lift of hills. Beyond them, almost always, is the rumour of the Indian Ocean. The North West Coastal Highway threads past the frontage, a practical artery rather than an intrusion, carrying you south toward Geraldton's amenities or north toward the quieter coastal towns. Here, space is not an abstraction. It is the first and last impression. THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW Howatharra itself has always been a place of springs and sidings, of agricultural opening and unhurried settlement. It sits in that generous belt of country between Geraldton and Northampton, close enough to town for convenience, far enough for the sky to remain the dominant architecture. The property inherits that character: useful, unpretentious, and quietly spectacular when the light is right. The homestead gathers around a simple, honest plan. A covered outdoor living area, shaded and practical, opens toward the garden and the workshop precinct. Chairs and a barbecue wait in the shade of corrugated iron, the kind of everyday theatre that makes a house feel lived in rather than staged. From here the eye travels across lawn, palms, and the red roofed lean of older structures toward the larger sheds that give the place its working soul. Inside, the kitchen and living rooms share a single, generous volume. White cabinetry, a subway tiled splash back, and a timber post rising through the center of the room create a space that is both functional and unexpectedly warm. Wicker chairs gather around a round wooden table. A grey sofa occupies one wall. Light enters high and sideways. It is not a designer interior. It is better than that: it is a room that already knows how people actually live. The bedroom continue the same unforced logic. There is no pretence of grandeur, only the dignity of a room that does its their job well and then get out of the way for your days to unfold. The predominant bathroom is compact and recently finished, with a curved shower screen, marble look tiling and the clean geometry of new fittings. Step back outside and the garden asserts itself. A rectangle of green lawn, a rotary clothesline, geraniums in full colour, palms and agaves against white fencing. It is a small, deliberate oasis in a larger, drier landscape, proof that water, when stored and used with care, can still make a Mid West block bloom. The sheds are the property's other major feature. Older in style, generous in volume, they stand ready for machinery, vehicles, projects and the long accumulation of rural life. One is an open sided workshop where tools, benches and the comfortable clutter of making things already live. Another offers enclosed space and the kind of height that invites boats, caravans or the next serious undertaking. These buildings do not apologise for their age. They offer exactly what country properties are supposed to offer: room to work. Water is not an afterthought here. With some 50,000 litres of rainwater storage in a battery of large tanks, the property has given itself a measure of independence that city buyers rarely understand until they need it. In a region where rainfall is seasonal and precious, that capacity is not a footnote. It is infrastructure for living. Beyond the homestead precinct the land opens into grassed paddock and scattered trees. A simple animal shelter stands among wildflowers. There is room here for a few horses, for sheep, for a more ambitious garden, or simply for the pleasure of walking one's own ground at dusk. The fencing is practical. The trees are already doing their work of shade and belonging. What makes the address sing is the proximity of two worlds. Geraldton lies a comfortable drive south, with shops, schools, hospital, airport, the working port and the social life of a regional city. A little further, or a different turn, and the coast asserts itself: Horrocks Beach with its reef protected lagoon, turquoise shallows, fishing boats at rest, and the particular Mid West light that turns water into glass. The photographs of that shoreline are not decoration. They are the other half of the daily possibility. This is not a polished lifestyle estate. It is something rarer: a working 1.04 hectare holding with older sheds that still have years of usefulness in them, a house that has been made comfortable without losing its character, and a water system that respects the climate. It is the kind of property that rewards people who know what they want from land: space, storage, self reliance, and a horizon that does not stop at the neighbour's fence. Come at the right hour and the whole place arranges itself into a single sentence: highway in front, hills behind, ocean somewhere in the light, tanks full, sheds waiting, lawn green against red earth. 3022 North West Coastal Highway, Howatharra, is not asking to be imagined. It is already doing the work of a life well placed. INTERESTED? Please contact Joel Winkley or Dave Rawlingson from The Agency to book all viewings and to make all offers on this amazing lifestyle proposition. Email joelw@theagency.com or daverawlingson@theagency.com.au. Disclaimer: This information is provided for general information purposes only and is based on information provided by the Seller and may be subject to change. No warranty or representation is made as to its accuracy and interested parties should place no reliance on it and should make their own independent enquiries.