40 Crosses Road Indigo Valley VIC 3688

Area:
39.59 ha -98 acres

Location:
Situated in the popular Indigo Valley/ Barnawartha area of the North East of Victoria just 20 kms to Albury Wodonga, 300 km Melbourne and 20 km Albury Airport. This property has easy access to Hume Freeway, Rutherglen Wine district, Yackandandah, Beechworth and the Victorian Alps.

Residence:
Built in 1978, “Macquarie Lodge” was created with all the quality features of the era and remains in pristine original condition. The homestead style residence is of brick veneer construction with a terracotta tiles roof. Verandas front and back of the home. The grand entrance to the home has attractive double doors and leads to a wide hallway. From this hallway the home offers a study/sitting room and a spacious formal lounge /dining room with bay windows overlooking the front garden.
Flow is the key to this home and the formal living flows into a family room and informal meals area with a slow combustion wood heater which then flows to a separate family/ rumpus room for extra living, timber feature wall, sliding door to rear veranda and a split system. Perfect for a large family or entertainment.
The “country ‘style kitchen is in original condition with abundant bench space and storage cupboards, electric double oven, electric cooktop, dishwasher double sink and a huge walk-in pantry with ample storage. We designed to create a butler’s pantry.
The home offers three (3) double bedrooms all with built in robes and overhead fans. The spacious master bedroom has an overhead fan built in robes and a full dressing room with attached ensuite with mirrored feature wall vanity, toilet and shower,
The large family bathroom has a large bath, shower, double vanity. All tiles and tap fittings are reminiscent of this opulent era. The well-appointed laundry has an abundance of storage and doubles as a mudroom, including its own separate toilet and separate shower room.
A truly beautiful home in absolute “mint condition”.

Garden/ Surrounds:
The grounds around the home are fully fenced and offer established trees, spacious lawns and low maintenance garden beds. Features of the garden area separate “washhouse” with toilet and hand basin, an outdoor entertainment area with built in BBQ, and a four (4) car garage that is currently in the early stages of extra bedrooms. The timber frames can be finalised or taken out according to any new purchasers wishes.
Adjoining the home allotment is a fenced area for riding or training, with a three (3) bay colorbond shed with roller doors and rear area workshop. A pergola/ undercover entertainment area overlooks this area.
The Indigo Creek offers extra outdoors entertainment with large grassed area, majestic river gums and an older style hut. Ideal for picnics, walks or rides.

Water:
Water is reliable on this property with rain water to kitchen and outside “wash house” Rain water to the dairy. Two (2) bores to the property. The original bore with new pump and a second new bore (80 m) with new tank and new pump. All the paddocks have access to water with troughs. The property has double frontage to the Indigo creek.

Working Improvements:
The working /shed area on “Macquarie Lodge” has separate access to the home and offers a complex for any equine, cattle, stud or commercial venture. The shedding includes, a disused dairy in excellent condition with power, large hayshed, lock up machinery shed, huge lock up work shop, mare and foal stable, two (2) stables within fully horse fenced yards. Other miscellaneous shedding.
Excellent steel cattle yards with loading race, undercover crush and vet area.

Agents Remarks:
A rare opportunity to purchase a quality property in an outstanding area. The property with three road frontage, separate crown allotments, dual frontage to the Indigo Creek and its close proximity to the Hume freeway and our north east Victorian townships and Albury Wodonga is a rare opportunity or future expansion. Whether it be land bank or establish a commercial venture or just live and enjoy this property should not be missed.

Property Features

• Workshop
• Water Tank
• Shed
• Rumpus Room
• Outdoor Entertaining Area
• Dishwasher
• Built In Wardrobes