NSW's Burrawang West Station has been listed with $10 million hopes
Burrawang West Station in the central west NSW has been listed with $10 million hopes.
The 4673 hectare farm has been listed through Inglis agents Sam Triggs and Jamie Inglis with offers due by mid-July.
Its been the farming enterprise retreat of the Graham Pickles and his wife, American-born banker turned marketing executive, Jana.
The Pickles' have run a 6000 white Dorper sheep stud enterprise. Dorpers first arrived in Australia in 1997 and moved into NSW in 1999.
There's fodder crops for harvest that will be included in the sale price.
The farm got its reputation however when it operated previously as a luxury private resort.
The facilities dated back to the early 1990s when the Japanese corporation Kajima Corporation used the farm as a retreat for its executives and favoured clients.
President Dr Schoichi Kajima set out to create an authentic Australian bush retreat.
Its rustic Denton Corker Marshall architecture reflected a contemporary interpretation of traditional Australian woolsheds coupled with a Zen-like sentiment.
There's the original 101-stand Big Burrawang shearing shed, which in its heyday employed more than 250 men and shore 270,000 sheep.
The Pickles acquired the property in 2000 when after 25 years of a very busy corporate life running trading conglomerates in South East Asia, Graham aspired to become a full time farmer.
He is now back on the Goodman Fielder board of directors.
It's main striking building is its quintessential Australian homestead with wrap-around verandahs, high ceilings and twin chimneys amid a rose garden.
There are four boutique lodges are known as The Barn, Woolshed, Jackaroo Cottage and Jillaroo Cottage.
There's also along with a 20-metre swimming pool, tennis courts, saunas and conference facilities.
The garden now comes with an attention-grabbing concept – Utes In The Paddock – some 12 colourfully painted utes.
The first ute – a 1971 Holden HQ series – by the Lightning Ridge artist John Murray.
The farm dates back to the days of Thomas Edols, the Bridgewater, England-born farmer who in 1873 bought the 227,000-hectare sheep station.
He oversaw the improvements – hiring a workforce of local Wiradjuri people and Chinese – that cleared more than 20,200 hectares of native vegetation, built the fences, sunk wells, built a canal from the Lachlan River, and installed its rabbit proof netted fences.
The Inglis agents advise there's a sale and leaseback available for any prospective passive investor for the property situated 25km east of Condobolin, 60km west of Parkes, 170km from Orange and 430km from Sydney.
This article was first published in the Sunday Telegraph.
