The Tellford family are offering up their long-held Leichhardt Hotel Motel in regional hub Cloncurry.
The town of Cloncurry is considered one of the icons of outback Queensland, and the Leichhardt Hotel Motel holds a generous 6,583sqm site in the town centre, easily accessible from both the Flinders and Barkly Highways.
It offers a public bar with Keno, gaming room and bar with 25 EGMs and TITO, bistro and drive-through bottleshop. It also counts 22 stand-alone air-conditioned motel units with secure parking, and a second (detached) bottleshop on main road Ramsay Street, about two blocks’ away.
Known locally as ‘Curry’, the town is 120km east of Mount Isa and home to around 3,200 regular residents. It was founded in 1867 by Ernest Henry, with the discovery of copper, and it remains a quintessential Aussie mining town. Core industries include copper and gold mining, grazing and transport services.
The Telford family took over the established business on Melbourne Cup Day 1967, and have spent half a century engraining themselves and the Leichhardt with a community that champions Aussie outback life.
Celebrating its origins and history, Cloncurry boasts a gallery, showground, large cattle sale yard in town, mineral display in the old post office, and the flying doctor museum. Cloncurry Shire Council is exercising an increased focus on planning for the long-term needs of the community.
“As the birthplace of the Royal Flying Doctor Service and the destination of the very first Qantas flight, few towns can claim to be as influential in shaping Australian life as Cloncurry,” offers Savills Australia’s Christian Tsalikis, who is marketing the Hotel for the Tellfords.
The freehold going concern of the Leichhardt Hotel Motel Cloncurry is for sale via Expression of Interest, closing Thursday, 30 September.
