37 Padbury Street, Downer ACT 2602, Australia
| Event | Date | Price | Price per m² |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sold | Mar 2002 | $285,000 | $300 |
| Sold | Jun 1998 | $136,000 | $143 |
| Sold | Feb 1991 | $112,500 | $118 |
Price per m² based on land size of 950 m².
The property is a stand‑alone house offering three bedrooms and one bathroom. It is set within a generous block that provides ample outdoor space.
The land area measures 950 m². This size allows for a sizable garden or potential extensions while maintaining a comfortable yard.
The closest Canberra Metro station is on Swinden Street, roughly 0.4 km away. An additional Metro interchange at Dickson is about 0.7 km from the house.
Within about 0.5 km you can reach the Dickson Library and the Dickson Centre, which includes a refurbished shopping centre with a new café and a veterinary clinic. The local oval is also nearby, providing recreational space.
A bronze kangaroo sculpture was unveiled in May 2019 near the local oval, adding a distinctive public artwork to the area. The surrounding large pine and gum trees date back to the 1930s CSIRO era and are part of the suburb’s historic landscape.
Downer sits on calcareous shales of the Canberra Formation, which are overlain by Quaternary alluvium. This reflects the limestone foundations that gave Canberra its original name, "Limestone Plains".
Downer was gazetted in 1960 and named after Sir John Downer, a former Premier of South Australia and early Australian Senator. The suburb’s core buildings were originally a CSIRO agricultural research facility built in the 1930s, later used for opium poppy cultivation during World War II.
