1 Nichols Street, Downer ACT 2602, Australia
The house is situated on a 940 m² parcel of land.
It is in the inner‑north suburb of Downer, which is bounded by Northbourne Avenue, Antill Street and Philip Avenue.
The Downer community centre and shops were built for the CSIRO in the 1930s, and the area was once an agricultural research facility that grew opium poppy during World War II.
Downer has a local oval surrounded by Frencham, Melba, Bonython and Bradfield Streets, and the Dickson District Playing Fields are about 0.9 km away.
The Swinden Street Canberra Metro station is roughly 1.3 km away, and the EPIC and Racecourse light‑rail station is about 1.4 km distant.
The Downer shopping centre was refurbished in the late 2010s and now includes a new café and veterinary clinic, and a bronze kangaroo sculpture was unveiled in May 2019.
The suburb sits on calcareous shales from the Canberra Formation, overlain by Quaternary alluvium, the limestone that gave Canberra its original name “Limestone Plains.”
