11 Bancroft Street, Dickson ACT 2602, Australia
The house sits on a 737 m² block, providing a spacious lot within the Dickson suburb.
The property is a detached house, typical of the leafy, single‑dwelling homes that characterise central Dickson.
It is approximately 0.8 km from the Dickson Centre, making the shopping precinct and its cafés, supermarkets and services easily reachable on foot.
Dickson Interchange is about 1 km away and provides several bus routes (including 18, 30, 31, 50, 51, 53 and R9) as well as access to the two light‑rail stops in the area.
Within a 1‑km radius there are Dickson Wetlands (≈0.6 km), Bill Pye Park (≈0.6 km), Keith Tournier Enclosed Oval (≈0.7 km) and the Dickson District Playing Fields (≈0.9 km) for walking, sports and outdoor activities.
Dickson sits on calcareous shales of the Silurian‑age Canberra Formation, a limestone‑rich rock that gave the region its historic nickname ‘Limestone Plains,’ with Quaternary alluvium covering the flatter parts.
Yes, Dickson was the site of Canberra’s original aerodrome between 1924 and 1926, and later hosted the Dickson Experiment Station, a wartime research farm that contributed to agricultural advances.
