38 Blacket Street, Downer ACT 2602, Australia
| Event | Date | Price | Price per m² |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sold | Oct 2016 | $890,000 | $614 |
| Sold | Jan 1998 | $131,000 | $90 |
Price per m² based on land size of 1449 m².
38 Blacket Street is a standalone house. It sits on a generous 1,449 m² block, providing ample outdoor space.
The Swinden Street Metro station is approximately 0.4 km away, and the Dickson Interchange, another Metro station, is also about 0.4 km from the house.
Within a short walk you’ll find the Dickson Centre and Dickson Library (both about 0.3 km), the Quality Hotel Dickson (0.4 km), and the National Hockey Centre (around 0.8 km). The area also includes a cafe and veterinary clinic in the refurbished Downer shopping centre.
Downer was originally an agricultural research facility for the CSIRO in the 1930s, and during World War II it grew opium poppy for medicinal use. Many of the large pine and gum trees were planted then as windbreaks, and some remain today after a refurbishment program.
The site sits on calcareous shales from the Canberra Formation, which are overlain by Quaternary alluvium – the limestone that gave Canberra its original name "Limestone Plains".
The property falls within the federal electorate of Canberra, represented by Alicia Payne of the Labor Party, and the ACT Legislative Assembly electorate of Kurrajong.
A bronze kangaroo sculpture was unveiled in May 2019 near the Downer shopping centre, replacing an earlier piece that had gone missing.
