Red Hill Cottage is the original property residence dating back to the early 1900s. Newly renovated, the cottage now boasts two separate bedrooms, a spacious timber decked verandah and a new fully equipped modern kitchen and open plan living area. This cottage has country charm and character whilst providing modern comforts. Enjoy your private escape set amongst the main homestead gardens; overlooking cattle grazing in paddocks on a working cattle farm. Only 45min from Armidale and 1 hour from Tamworth; both hosting airports, you'll be relaxing in the high county breathing clean mountain air and feel a million miles from your every day life. Note: Mobility challenged guests should contact host for more details on stairs within the property.

Walcha is located half way between Sydney and Brisbane on the crossroads of the Oxley Highway and Thunderbolts Way. Arriving via Thunderbolts Way through Gloucester from Sydney is only 410km and 496km via Tamworth on the New England Highway. Thunderbolts Way is a great alternative to the Pacific Highway and New England Highway offering beautiful scenery at every turn and is, without a doubt, the preferred route for locals. Surrounded by spectacular national parks threaded with wild rivers and tumbling waterfalls, Walcha is renowned for its natural beauty. The oldest colonial settlement in the New England region, the small town also has a rich history, vibrant arts community, and plenty of country charm. Walcha was the first area to be discovered in the New England region. It was on the route taken by the explorer John Oxley and reached on 8th September, 1818. He named the Apsley River after the Secretary of State for the colonies, Lord Apsley. The town boasts two points of national interest. The celebrated overland explorer Nat Buchanan is buried here. He opened up much land in Queensland, Northern Territory and Western Australia with his great cattle drives from 1859 to the 1890’s. In 1950 the first aerial spreading of superphosphate in Australia was done on ‘Mirani’, a property owned by AS Nivison, grandson of an 1840’s squatter. The Tiger Moth plane, used in this important innovation, is preserved in good condition by the local Historical Society.