Farm/Ranch for Sale in Duncan, British Columbia, CDN

Description:
State of the art Equestrian Facility


Somenos Riding Center & Arabian Stud – 6824 Somenos Road, Duncan,

Vancouver Island, B.C. V9L 5Z5.



$ 749,000 Cad. OBO ($600,000 U.S. 18/04/05)





The Property :



This truly scenic and tranquil 5.81 acre parcel has been extremely well set up for any of the following Equestrian Operations :



· An equestrian center for horse breeders, riding instruction, summer camps for children, shows, horse training, clinics and workshops or trail riding.



· A well-appointed Boarding facility offering 13 Stalls (11 x 11 average), 3 with stallion turn-out attached & an additional 12 large paddocks, all with shelters and underground piped municipal water.



· Access to beautiful trails through Mount Prevost Provincial Park.



Located at the top of the property is a 2 acre fenced grass field easement to which access is allowed for haying or additional horse grazing year round.



The property is well drained with the vast majority of the 5.81 acres being utilized for the equestrian business. There is a straight “pit run‿ road access running West between all the field paddocks, situated North and South of the road.



The main entrance to the property comprises a tarmac entry double driveway with circular trailer turning exit.



The layout of the property has had a great deal of planning in terms of the ease of maintenance in the shortest time frame.



The barn has the shavings shed at it’s North end & the manure dumping point for 6 units at its South end, no long walks to either. Plenty of piped water connections to all barn stalls & paddocks for auto or hose waterer’s. The shavings shed holds 4 Units and has a winch raised roof for ease of truck delivery.



The paddocks & property are cross-fenced with all paddock posts being 5‿-6‿ diameter treated hemlock and cedar, the cross fencing is primarily treated wood 2‿x 6‿ planking. The gates are alloy/steel galvanized on all paddocks.



There are two seasonal streams and a pond on the property with apple trees & blackberry hedgerows.





The Location :



The subject property is located 10 minutes from the City of Duncan in the beautiful Cowichan Valley (From the native Coast Salish word “Khowutzun‿ meaning “ land warmed by the sun.‿)



This valley is the warmest part of Canada by seasonal average.



The property is a 40 minute drive from Victoria just off the Cowichan Lake Highway and can be reached from the Trans Canada Highway within 3 minutes.

The scenic Mount Prevost overlooks the property, this Mountain has great significance to the seven Cowichan Tribes as it is their ‘point of Creation’ where their first forefathers fell from the sky. the South face of Mt. Prevost has the natural profile of a reclining woman considered a native princess by the tribes.

The property is visited by elk, bald eagles and deer.

The Home :

The 2700 square foot home offers four bedrooms and three bathrooms. Of the three bathrooms all have showers, sinks & WC’s and two have baths, one which is oversize, the other is a Whirlpool tub.

The home has vinyl siding, durroid roof and vinyl windows, there is a full walk-out finished basement family room below with wet bar and red oak hardwood flooring throughout the upper lounge and formal dining room.

The fitted kitchen has fridge, cooker, dishwasher and a maple woodblock central island. Adjacent to the kitchen is the laundry room with washer and dryer. Heating is provided by a Pacific Energy woodstove in the lounge plus baseboard heating on both levels and an oil, forced air Airco furnace with underfloor ductwork throughout.

There are two large crawl space storage areas with interior and exterior access. The home has Municipal (city) water supply and a large septic field installed late 2000. There is a fitted vacuum system with hose point connections in most rooms. There are patios at the North and South faces of the front of the residence for BBQ’s or socials.

There is a wall secured safe installed on the property. All of the external entry doors to the home are steel plate fronted.

The Workshop/Office/Suite/Tack room :

This is a substantial shop with 16’ ceiling, 2 electric overhead remote garage doors and a 3rd over-height, manual, overhead garage door. This building also has vinyl siding, durroid roof and vinyl windows.

The shop building is approximately 39’X 41’ with an 11’X33’ Tack Room attached to it’s West side. Within the shop on the ground level is a carpeted, well lit class room. All of the external entry doors to the workshop are steel plate fronted.

The shop has a large ceiling mounted propane heater, on the main floor are fitted cupboards, workbenches with vice, shop sink, 220v outlets for welding and an office/laboratory with en-suite bathroom/shower.

Upstairs is a fully fitted office suite of 680 square feet with the best views of the property. The suite has a three- piece bathroom and fitted kitchen with fridge and electric cooking range plus lounge area and spare room. Baseboard heaters provide heating. The location of this suite is ideal for horse and tack room security.

The Barn :

The barn offers a heated feed room and bathroom . There are 13 stalls averaging 10’X10’, two stalls can be converted to foaling stalls.

The walkways are concrete the stall floors are 4‿x4’’ wood beams over big ‘o’ pipe and gravel for horse waste drainage. There are 3 sets of cross ties complete with 3 large rubber mats. All stalls have piped water supply to hose or waterer. The barn is well lit with overhead fluorescent lights throughout the walkways.

The barn measures 42’ x 62’, the hay loft is large with a holding capacity of 750 bales of local hay or 650 bales of timothy. There are hay slots from the hayloft over each horse crib for ease of feeding.

Three of the stalls on the West side of the barn have connected stallion turnouts. There is a shavings storage shed at the barns north end holding 4 units with a winch-elevating roof for ease of delivery by truck. There is a manure dumping bay with a cement dock for wheelbarrow tipping at the South end of the barn.

The covered Loafing shed :

This steel structure is open sided with 4 floodlights mounted in the roof for night use. The footing is sand/wood shavings and the arena is cross fenced measuring 77’x53’ with 3 steel access gates.

The roof comprises heavy duty steel sheets with a full length plastic central skylight and aluminium eaves troughs/gutters and downspouts to underground pvc drainpipes.

The arena is 100% observable from the main residence kitchen and is bordered by a wood beam enclosed flowerbed and the driveway on its South and East sides. Truck access to the shaving shed is through this arena.

The outdoor main riding arena :

This riding arena measures 200’x100’ is drained and has been built on a foundation of up to 4’ in depth of 3‿ pit run rock with underground drainage pipe running down both sides.

There is a 2 degree pitch on the arena for run off. The surface packing over the pit run is a mix of driveway mulch (Packing gravel/sand) and hog fuel. This arena can be chain harrowed or floated with an ATV & some logging chains.

The arena is cross fenced with 5‿-6‿ diameter treated posts & 2‿-6‿ treated wood planks. There is a single wide entry steel gate access to the arena.

The Round Pen :

The round pen measures 60’ in diameter and is also built over pit run foundations with a hog fuel sand surface mix. The walls are ¾‿ treated plywood sheets screwed onto 2‿x6‿ treated planks with 2‿ gaps between up to a height of 5 and a half feet. The posts are again 5‿-6‿ diameter treated hemlock with 4’ centers making this a solid and durable training pen.



The mini barn :

This new wood structure is 20’x30’ and is divided internally to enable one side to act as a horse shelter for 2 to 3 horses and the other side to act as a large bale hay storage area for ease of paddock horse feeding and one ton bale storage.

There is a steel gate access through the paddock to the hay storage area to allow truck or tractor delivery and offloading of 1 ton square bales, round bales or standard hay bales.

The horse paddocks :

The horse paddocks are large by Vancouver Island standards, on average they measure 120’x80’. There are 12 paddocks with shelters and underground piped water to hose points accessing all paddocks. The horse shelters measure 10’x12’. There is an additional paddock at the front of the property with water supply but without a shelter although there are several trees in this paddock.

Miscellaneous :

Other buildings not mentioned include a well made 9’x20’ firewood storage shed divided into 2 rooms with steel door access & lighting. There is a 10’x7’ chicken house/paint/tool storage shed behind the wood shavings shed. There is an 11’ diameter white painted cedar wood gazebo on the lawn overlooking the mountain.

The landscaped lawns on the property have an automatic, programmable sprinkler system, some sprinklers need replacing or repair.

There are automatic sensor security lights fitted to the barn, workshop, tack room & feed room.
Price: $600,000

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