45 Blacket Street, Downer ACT 2602, Australia
The house sits on a 699 m² block, providing a spacious garden area for residents.
Swinden Street Metro station is about 0.4 km away, and the Dickson Interchange is also roughly 0.4 km from the house.
Dickson Centre and Dickson Library are each only 0.3 km away, while the Quality Hotel Dickson and a local café are about 0.4 km from the property.
A bronze kangaroo sculpture was unveiled in May 2019 near the Downer shopping centre, replacing an earlier missing piece.
The local oval bordered by Frencham, Melba, Bonython and Bradfield Streets is nearby, and the Dickson District Playing Fields are about 1.1 km away, offering sports and leisure spaces.
Downer originated as a CSIRO agricultural research facility in the 1930s, later used for opium poppy cultivation during World War II, and its historic buildings now form the community centre and shops.
The ground consists of calcareous shales from the Canberra Formation, overlain by Quaternary alluvium, reflecting the original limestone plains of the region.
