It was a chicken coop with a tin roof that sold Felicity Wells on the idea of moving to the country.

The former advertising executive had filled her backyard on Sydney's upper north shore with 12 chickens, ducks and cattle dogs before she decided it might be time to move to a bona fide farm.

On their first visit to Carcoar, in central western NSW, Ms Wells and her husband were taken by a house on a hill with breathtaking views of the rolling landscape and the colonial-era village.

"I walked around the back of the property and there was a beautiful little chicken coop with a chicken run, almost more beautiful than the house in St Ives that I'd lived in for 15 years," Ms Wells told AAP.

"I said to my husband, 'Oh my goodness, could we put in an offer because this is where we're going to

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