207 Upper Sturt Road, Upper Sturt, SA 5156

This solidly constructed 1970's home offers a very affordable opportunity to enjoy the hills lifestyle only a short distance to Stirling or Blackwood shopping.

The versatile floorplan comprises open plan kitchen, living and dining rooms with glass sliding doors leading outside, slate flooring and combustion heating.

The modern kitchen has a breakfast bar and overlooks the dining and living rooms.

There are up to 4 double bedrooms plus study and separate living room.

The bathroom and laundry have been updated and there is a separate toilet.

Large picture windows bring the outside in and there is a garden view from all aspects.

Outside features include a modern double garage with power and recently re-fitted bore with holding tank, providing unlimited water to the property all year round.

There is a fire pump and roof sprinkler system.

Featuring numerous fruit trees and rare plants the property is a haven for birdlife and wildlife.

A fantastic opportunity to escape the 'rat race' and create your own piece of paradise.


Features of the property:

Shed/garage: 9.2m x 6.2m

Water tank: Capacity 30,000 litres

The house is protected by:
- Petrol Fire Pump
- Roof sprinkler system
- Fire Hose
- (The roof sprinklers and the fire hose deliver a reasonable amount of water by gravity feed from the tank alone.)

Bore: A water Bore on the tank platform supplies unlimited water to the property all year. This good quality water is pumped from an aquifer 125m below ground.
A new Grundfos SP8A-29, 240 volt pump with new cabling and the replacement of the lowest 5 x 40mm pipes was completed on August 21, 2014. The cost of this renewal was $7,250.35.
The pump is operated from a simple Control Box in the Shed.
The bore can be pumped either automatically by a timer or manually until turned off when the tank begins to overflow.
During the summer and bush-fire period when additional water may be needed for watering garden areas or fire prevention, the tank should be kept full by regular checking and pumping when required. This may be as often as once each week.
Currently, the new pump takes only about 8 hours to pump the tank to overflow from almost no water in the tank.

Across the road from the top end of Belair National Park

Close to both Blackwood and Stirling for easy shopping

Deli only 700m up the road

Lots of animal contacts (especially in spring and summer)
- Koalas (all year round and very frequent visitors)
- Kangaroos sometimes on driveway and usually eating the green grasses around the house
- Echidnas (occasionally, especially in spring)

Huge array of birds including:
- Blue wrens
- Rainbow lorikeets
- Adelaide rosellas
- Kookaburras
- Eastern spinebills
- Crested honey-eaters
- Golden whistlers
- Yellow tailed black cockatoos
- Tree creepers
- Pardalotes (spring, summer)
- Various Thornbills
- Soaring Wedge-tailed eagles in summer

Useful, unusual and rare plants in the garden:
Fruit trees
- 2 x Jonathon apples
- 1 Golden Delicious apple
- 2 Weeping Mulberry

Herbs
- Lemon verbena
- Several species of Wormwood
- Borage

Unusual
- Crab apple (Malus ioensis) beautiful soft pink rose-like flowers
- Lobelia laxiflora red and yellow tubular flowers almost all year
- Prunus trees Mount Fuji, New Red (actually pink)
- Dwarf and variegated varieties of Agapanthus
- Wide range of colours and forms of Alstromeria
- Clivea miniata and Clivea longiflora
- Helichrysum petiolaris, and Helichrysum petiolaris Limelight

Rare
- Chinese quince (Psuedocydonia) brilliant autumn colour
- "Mexican Tree Daisy
- Witches Broom flowers in the middle of the leaves