47 Atherton Street, Downer ACT 2602, Australia
The property features three bedrooms. All bedrooms are part of a single‑storey house.
47 Atherton Street is a house built on a 694 m² block of land. The lot provides ample space for a garden or outdoor area.
The nearest Canberra Metro station at Swinden Street is about 0.3 km away, and the Dickson Interchange, another Metro station, is roughly 0.7 km from the house.
Within 0.6 km you’ll find the Dickson Centre shopping precinct and the Dickson Library. The local oval and a refurbished community centre with a café and veterinary clinic are also within a kilometre.
Downer originated as a CSIRO agricultural research site in the 1930s, later used for opium poppy cultivation during World War II. Many of the large pine and gum trees surrounding the original shops were planted at that time.
The suburb sits on calcareous shales of the Canberra Formation, which are overlain by Quaternary alluvium. This geology reflects the original “Limestone Plains” that gave Canberra its early name.
