IT’S NOT OFTEN THAT you end up buying a home during a casual chat around sheep yards, but that’s exactly how Ainsley and James Sullivan came to be the owners of this late Victorian-era house in Millthorpe, New South Wales.
In 2017, James, 36, was moving sheep for the previous owner, who mentioned he was thinking about selling the 121-hectare property. “James basically said, ‘Well, if you’re serious, let’s have a proper chat,’” Ainsley says. “Our grand plan was always to have land, and it’s right next door to his parents’ property so James and his dad can share farm – it was the
