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A rare opportunity in the Amuri Basin of North Canterbury.

The Country
28 Aug, 2016 11:06 PM2 mins to read

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Deadline Private Treaty 14th September

Culverden
211 Mouse Point Road, Culverden
Land Size: 227.4 hectares (561.93 Acres)

This tremendous and often admired property has been in the same family for 107 years.

Parham Hill is 227ha of which 77ha is flat and currently is irrigated by border dyke irrigation and 150ha is easy downs of which 40ha is irrigated by long line sprinklers with new plans in place to replace the border dykes to a pivot system plus more sprinklers on the downs.

The farming practice for Parham Hill has traditionally been sheep breeding & finishing, a Corriedale sheep stud plus cattle finishing. More lately it has been run as a dairy support enterprise plus sheep and cattle finishing.

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The property is subdivided into 20 paddocks on the flat and 32 paddocks on the downs and sown in a mix of quality new and permanent pasture clover, prairie grass and chicory. Winter feed consists of fodder beet and rape. Throughout all the fencing is of a very high standard, with good laneways and tracks.

There is an extremely good array of support buildings, consisting of three-stand wool shed with a night pen of 400, four-bay tractor shed, machinery shed, grain and implement shed, new Total Span 6x6 shed, three-bay and four-bay hayshed, plus sheep and cattle yards.

Parham Hill has two dwellings. The main homestead is an architectural designed five-bedroom double-storey home. Set on an elevated site in and amongst mature specimen trees.

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Open plan kitchen and dining with doors opening onto a sheltered patio, formal dining/living plus two bathrooms. The second dwelling is a four year old, three-double bedroom home with open plan kitchen/dining/living plus office and boasts fantastic north facing views.

In summary the main attractions for Parham Hill are size, layout, infrastructure, soils, two homes, locality and reliable low-cost Amuri Irrigation Company water. What more could you desire. The opportunity is now yours to add to the history of Parham Hill.

Find out more about this property here.

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