16 Swinden Street, Downer ACT 2602, Australia
16 Swinden Street is a stand‑alone house. It sits on a generous 688 m² block of land.
The Canberra Metro station on Swinden Street is approximately 0.3 km away, and the Dickson Interchange, another Metro station, is about 0.7 km from the home.
Within around 0.6 km you’ll find the Dickson Library and the Dickson Centre precinct. The National Hockey Centre (0.8 km) and Quality Hotel Dickson (0.7 km) are also within easy walking distance.
Swinden Street was originally the driveway for a 1930s CSIRO research building, and large gum trees were planted along it at that time. Many of those historic trees were removed in the 1980s and are being replaced with newer local varieties.
The land is built on calcareous shales from the Canberra Formation, which are overlain by Quaternary alluvium – the limestone base that gave Canberra its early nickname, “Limestone Plains.”
Federally, 16 Swinden Street is in the Canberra electorate, represented by Alicia Payne of the Labor Party. In the ACT Legislative Assembly it falls within the Kurrajong electorate.
A bronze kangaroo sculpture was unveiled in May 2019 near the Downer shopping centre, replacing a previous sculpture that had gone missing.
