3 Nichols Street, Downer ACT 2602, Australia
| Event | Date | Price | Price per m² |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sold | Jun 1992 | $149,000 | $159 |
Price per m² based on land size of 932 m².
The house sits on a 932 m² block. This provides a spacious garden area for the Downer location.
The address is a detached house. It is the primary residence on the listed parcel of land.
Downer was originally an agricultural research facility for the CSIRO, even growing opium poppies during World II. Many of the large pine and gum trees around the local shops date from the 1930s, and a bronze kangaroo sculpture was added to the centre in 2019.
The site rests on calcareous shales from the Canberra Formation, which are overlain by Quaternary alluvium. This reflects the limestone plains that gave Canberra its early name.
Federally, Downer is part of the Canberra electorate represented by Alicia Payne (Labor). In the ACT Legislative Assembly it falls within the Kurrajong electorate.
The property is close to Dickson District Playing Fields (about 0.9 km) and Exhibition Park in Canberra (0.9 km). The Dickson Library is roughly 1.2 km away, and the Dickson Centre commercial precinct is about 1.4 km distant.
Swinden Street Metro station is approximately 1.3 km away, and the EPIC and Racecourse light‑rail station is about 1.4 km from the house.
