41 Atherton Street, Downer ACT 2602, Australia
The house sits on a 587 m² land parcel. This provides a modest-sized block within the inner‑north of Canberra.
The listing describes the property as a house. It is situated in the suburb of Downer, which is part of Canberra’s inner north.
The nearest Metro station is on Swinden Street, approximately 0.3 km away. A second station, Dickson Interchange, is about 0.9 km from the house.
Within a kilometre you’ll find Dickson Library, the Dickson Centre precinct, the National Hockey Centre, and the Quality Hotel Dickson. The local oval and shopping centre are also nearby.
Downer was originally an agricultural research facility for CSIRO, operating as a poppy plantation during World War II. Many of the large pine and gum trees in the neighbourhood were planted in the 1930s as windbreaks for those facilities.
The site is built on calcareous shales from the Canberra Formation, which are overlain by Quaternary alluvium. This reflects the limestone origins of the region, historically known as the “Limestone Plains.”
Downer lies within the federal electorate of Canberra. It is represented in the Australian Parliament by Alicia Payne of the Labor Party.
