39A Legge Street, Downer ACT 2602, Australia
The property features four bedrooms and two bathrooms, offering ample space for a family or shared living.
The house sits on a 1,134 m² block, providing a generous yard area within the suburb.
Within about 0.6 km you’ll find the Dickson Library, and at roughly 0.7 km are the Swinden Street Metro station and the Dickson Centre precinct. The Quality Hotel Dickson and Dickson District Playing Fields are also nearby, each about 0.8 km away.
Downer was originally an agricultural research facility for the CSIRO, with the buildings constructed in the 1930s. During World II the site grew opium poppy for medical supplies, and many of the large pine and gum trees were planted as windbreaks at that time.
The land is built on calcareous shales from the Canberra Formation, which are overlain by Quaternary alluvium, reflecting the region’s original “Limestone Plains” character.
Downer lies within the federal electorate of Canberra, represented by Alicia Payne (Labor). In the ACT Legislative Assembly it is part of the Kurrajong electorate.
A bronze kangaroo sculpture was unveiled in May 2019 near the local shopping centre, replacing an earlier piece that had gone missing.
