109 acres just over 2 hours from Sydney with a new loft house

This is an advance notice as we’ll be listing the property soon with a Singleton real estate agent.

But I thought some of you ALS folk may be interested in the property. My husband and I bought the 109 acres in 2007 and built a 1 bedroom loft house (the loft can probably be split into two further bedrooms if required)

The property is in Howes Valley which is just over an hour out of Windsor and about 40 minutes from Singleton and is considered to be in the south western corner of the Hunter Valley. There is actually a vineyard ‘across’ the road.

We haven’t done much clearing and it’s really just around the house which has been cleared for hazard reduction.

It’s off grid and uses solar power for electricity, LPG gas for hot water and cooking (stove only), there is a Nectre’s bakers oven for cooking and heating in winter (or whenever you can cope with the heat!). The black and grey water goes into a worm farm waste water system and it takes any organic matter as well.

We love the place but just haven’t managed to break away from the rat race to make it a full time thing so it’s time for us to let someone else enjoy it. I always had visions of it becoming a permaculture type place where we would have worm wicking beds, a fruit orchard and be relatively self sustainable.

EDIT: we’re looking for something less than $390k and are getting guidance from a real estate agent now so offers will be considered if you are interested

Some pics

I love the Nectre Bakers Oven and cook roasts, cakes, bread and pizza! On top I almost always have a kettle on

the house is council approved and the cladding was chosen due to the bush fire zone rating

we built the two paths out of rock from around the property

view from the south side of the property

interior shot of lounge area

We just put this firepit in which is great for get togethers