23 Padbury Place, Downer ACT 2602, Australia
| Event | Date | Price | Price per m² |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sold | Feb 2011 | $610,000 | $823 |
| Sold | May 2001 | $269,000 | $363 |
Price per m² based on land size of 741 m².
The home offers three bedrooms and two bathrooms within a single‑storey house. It sits on a 741 m² block and includes two parking spaces.
The property sits on a 741 m² parcel of land, providing ample space for a garden or outdoor entertaining area.
Swinden Street Metro station is about 0.3 km away, and the Dickson Interchange, another Metro station, is roughly 0.6 km from the house.
The Downer shopping centre, recently refurbished, houses a café and a veterinary clinic. A local oval is situated between Frencham, Melba, Bonython and Bradfield Streets, and a bronze kangaroo sculpture was added in 2019.
The suburb lies on calcareous shales from the Canberra Formation, which are 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, later used for opium poppy cultivation during World War II. Large pine and gum trees were planted as windbreaks, some of which have been replaced with new gum species since the 1980s.
The National Hockey Centre is about 0.8 km away, and the Dickson District Playing Fields are roughly 1.1 km from the property. The nearby Dickson Wetland offers natural walking and bird‑watching opportunities.
