Property Details

Willow Springs - Attractive Mudbrick family home on your very own farmlet of 86 acres, set amongst a Garden of Eden. Ideal for self sufficiency

As you make your way down the long driveway and take in the lush paddocks and the healthy livestock, you can’t help but feel like you’re looking at the finer things in life. Then round the bend and down a way, lies the valley cradling a welcoming mudbrick. One is pleasantly affronted with that nostalgic sense of returning home.

The comfy Mudbrick residence with 3 sided verandah is practical and unique. The main part of the house comprises of two good-sized bedrooms with BIR, with a possible third bedroom by utilising a sitting room. A large living area and functional kitchen is the hub of the house. There is a laundry and a bathroom with tub to put up your feet and soak in. Perfect for the large family or the extended family, separated by a study and with its own exterior entrance is a further master bedroom with ensuite and spacious BIR outfitted with its own Tasmanian Oak kitchen, living room and storage room. Double-glazed windows in this continuation of the house add to the eco-friendly features A quality combustion wood stove with water jacket at one end and a wood fire heater at the other heats the house. Being a mudbrick in construction, the home pleasantly holds the heat in winter and holds the cool in summer. Panoramic windows in each room reveal the Garden of Eden that lies beyond.

The garden, an artistic combination of native, ornamentals and edibles is a rainbow of colours, textures and aromas. A productive orchard and veggie garden provide home grown produce for the family to enjoy. Orchard includes such delicious delicacies as blueberries, kiwi fruit, pears, apples, peaches, walnuts and oranges. Keep your tools, cars, machinery and implements in the 5 bay workshop/machinery shed, garden shed and two woodsheds.

A short walk from the house is a further fully functional self-contained bungalow, with two bedrooms, kitchen, bathroom and living room, warmed and cooled by a reverse-cycle air conditioner.

The 86 acres is divided into five main paddocks for livestock, provided with water via dams and gravity fed troughs. This is accompanied by sheep yards and quality cattle yards with crush. About a third of the land is natural bush, including a plantation of blue gums, a seasonal creek and springs, providing the perfect retreat after a hard day’s work and a never ending supply of wood to keep the fire burning on those colder days and nights. Water is not an issue supplied by 4 tanks and spring fed dams.

All of which is set in the ideal location of Marraweeney, perfectly positioned half way between Strathbogie and Violet Town. A twenty-minute drive will take you to Euroa, a quaint, but fully serviceable town with doctors, primary and secondary school. Located just off the Hume Highway, a 2 hour drive away from Melbourne. Come make Willow Springs your own.