187 Antill Street, Downer ACT 2602, Australia
| Event | Date | Price | Price per m² |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sold | Nov 2006 | $456,000 | $619 |
| Sold | Feb 1994 | $75,000 | $101 |
Price per m² based on land size of 736 m².
187 Antill Street is a house situated on a 736 m² block. The property offers a standalone residence with a generous land size for the inner‑north of Canberra.
Downer is bounded by Northbourne Avenue, Antill Street and Philip Avenue, and 187 Antill Street sits directly on Antill Street within those boundaries. It is therefore centrally located in the suburb’s inner‑north area.
The property is close to several amenities: St Margaret's Uniting Church (≈0.2 km), Dickson District Playing Fields (≈0.4 km), Dickson Wetland (≈0.6 km), Calvert Park and Bill Pye Park (≈0.8‑1.2 km), the Dickson Library (≈1.2 km) and the Dickson Centre precinct with shops and a café (≈1.4 km). A bus shelter at Officer Crescent is also about 1.1 km away.
The neighbourhood grew around a 1930s CSIRO research facility that produced opium poppy during World War II, and large pine and gum trees were planted as windbreaks. In recent years the former CSIRO shops have been refurbished with a new café and veterinary clinic, and a bronze kangaroo sculpture was unveiled in May 2019.
The site sits on calcareous shales from the Canberra Formation, which are overlain by Quaternary alluvium. These rocks form part of the limestone plains that gave Canberra its original name, "Limestone Plains".
Downer falls within the federal electorate of Canberra, represented by Alicia Payne of the Labor Party. At the ACT Legislative Assembly level, it is part of the Kurrajong electorate, which elects two Labor, one Green, one Liberal and one Independent member.
