2 Gardiner Street, Downer ACT 2602, Australia
The property features two bedrooms.
The home sits on a 729 m² block of land.
Dickson District Playing Fields are just 0.3 km away, and the local oval bordered by Frencham, Melba, Bonython and Bradfield Streets is nearby. Dickson Wetland and Calvert Park are also within about 1 km.
The Downer shopping centre, recently refurbished with a cafe and veterinary clinic, is close by, and a bronze kangaroo sculpture was installed there in 2019. St. Margaret's Uniting Church is also about 0.5 km from the house.
The suburb sits on calcareous shales from the Canberra Formation, overlain by Quaternary alluvium – the limestone that gave Canberra its original name, "Limestone Plains".
Downer originated as a CSIRO agricultural research facility in the 1930s, even growing opium poppy during World II. Large pine and gum trees were planted as windbreaks, many of which were later replaced. The community centre and shops, built for CSIRO, were refurbished in the late 2010s and now host a cafe, vet clinic, and a bronze kangaroo sculpture unveiled in 2019.
