1445 Eastern Dorrigo Way, Lowanna, NSW 2450 - More Details
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This charming home was built in the mid-1920s at Brooklana, 14 km away, and moved to its current location in 2015. Originally, Robert Durie owned the land and struck a deal with a milling company: if they built him a fine house using the best grade of hoop pine from the property, they could mill the remaining timber.
The house features a hardwood frame and is fully lined inside with hoop pine. This beautiful 3-bedroom home remains mostly original, offering the opportunity to restore it to its former glory with some cosmetic touches. Updates include new footings, a corrugated roof, kitchen, and bathroom. High hoop-pine ceilings create excellent airflow and a wonderful sense of space.
After 20 years living here, it’s easy to see why families love Eastern Dorrigo. Summers are mild, averaging around 26°C with cool nights and no need for air-conditioning. Winters are crisp with frosty July mornings and days around 18°C. A wood-burning Esse stove warms the home and includes an oven and hot plates for cooking roasts, soups, and stews. Autumn and spring are simply perfect.
The property backs onto a large State Forest and Bindarri Conservation Area, bringing abundant wildlife to the yard. Birdlife includes wrens, finches, willy wagtails, bowerbirds, and honeyeaters. Pademelon wallabies often visit the paddock. You can walk along the river to private swimming holes with pristine clear water, palms, river stones, freshwater crayfish, and plenty of frogs—meaning virtually no mosquitoes.
The established English garden, over 40 years old, features large oaks, pines, camellias, gardenias, daffodils, jonquils, hippeastrums, roses, wisteria, tree ferns, and azaleas. The oak tree provides cool summer shade and a sunny winter yard after its leaves fall.
Eastern Dorrigo River frontage supplies reliable water and has never run dry in 20 years. A two-year-old pump on the riverbank fills the house tank, and underground pipes supply troughs in two paddocks.
Verandahs on three sides (east, north, and west) offer sun and shade year-round for outdoor living. A second dwelling can serve as a teenager’s retreat, art studio, or guest accommodation and includes a new gas stove, gas heating, slow-combustion fireplace, bathroom, kitchen, double carport, shaded rear veranda, and north-facing veranda.
Large back sheds provide extensive storage. The main shed has underground power, lighting on a timer, and a large water tank with trough and tap for garden use. There are multiple chook pens, sheds for tractors and farm equipment, a tack room, and a lockable garden shed near the house.
Two additional watercourses run through the western paddocks. The property offers complete privacy—you can’t see or hear the neighbours.
The tar-sealed road frontage leads to Coffs Harbour’s main street in just 30 minutes. The scenic 13 km mountain drive passes magnificent hardwood trees and rainforest palms, with small waterfalls after rain and noticeably cooler, fresher air than the coast.
Nearby towns include Ulong, with its services club, post office/general store, hot food, parks, BMX track, and friendly community feel, and Lowanna, offering a general store, Bottle-O, takeaway food, a new park, and river swimming.
The property also features heritage apple trees plus lemon, lime, and orange trees. Community transport is available for the elderly and handicapped, and there are two welcoming country primary schools where children enjoy outdoor freedom.
Enjoy scenic drives to historic Dorrigo for shops, a pub lunch, or the Skywalk. Visit Ebor for winter snow, Bellingen or Thora for river swims, or canoe and picnic at Platypus Falls or Cod Hole—right in your backyard, with no traffic or crowds.
If you’re seeking a beautiful country home with river frontage, a mild climate year-round, pasture for animals, and room for horses, dogs, sheep, chooks, or children to roam, this rare property—with its charming historic home and second dwelling—is a must to inspect.
Disclaimer: All information contained herein is obtained from property owners or third-party sources, which we believe are reliable. We have no reason to doubt its accuracy; however, we cannot guarantee it. All interested person/s should rely on their own enquiries.
- Type
- Lifestyle
- Bedrooms
- 3
- Bathrooms
- 1
- Parkings
- 2
- Area
- 12.35 ha
