A SECTION of one of the original pastoral stations in Wagga is for sale.
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Gumly Gumly, a 43-acre block eight kilomtres north of Wagga city, is an eight-bedroom and four-bathroom residence, comprising a homestead and two flats built in 1874.
Wagga City Council (WWCC) deputy mayor Andrew Negline and wife Jacqueline privately listed the property they've owned since 2005 for sale earlier this month to downsize.
Gumly Gumly was originally a 66,000-acre block, with 75km of Murrumbidgee River frontage, owned by John Donnelly.
It's believed the block was divided up in the 1920s and then run as a boys home under the Presbyterian church between the 1950s and '70s, before Fred and Betty Bannantyne bought it in the early 1980s.
Councillor Negline, who was first elected to the position in 2012, explained the listing was bittersweet.
"We've got a bigger farm east of Wagga," he said.
"I've been working seven days a week because of the two farms.
"We're just looking to downsize.
"Gumly Gumly has been great, it's just the workload between the farms.
"I'm just looking forward to a smaller block."
The Italianate architecture of the main homestead boasts 14ft ceilings and original open fire place, while one of the two back flats includes a below-ground cellar in the original servant's quarters.
"The interest we've had so far is people wanting to buy an original homestead in Wagga," Cr Negline said.
"You don't see the architecture in Wagga as much as you do in other towns.
"We weren't a mining town...so there wasn't much wealth around."
The Neglines graze mostly lucerne on the property that includes five larger and four smaller paddocks, a machinery shed, a silo and a hay shed, while the old dairy and deer yards double as a nursery or horse stables.