6 Duffield Place, Downer ACT 2602, Australia
| Event | Date | Price | Price per m² |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sold | Sep 2000 | $159,000 | $212 |
Price per m² based on land size of 748 m².
6 Duffield Place is a stand‑alone house featuring three bedrooms. It sits on a 748 m² land parcel, providing ample space for outdoor use.
The property includes 748 square metres of land. This size offers room for a garden, lawn or other outdoor amenities.
Within roughly 0.5 km you’ll find the Dickson District Playing Fields and St. Margaret's Uniting Church. A bit further (around 1 km) are Calvert Park, the Dickson Centre precinct, and the Exhibition Park in Canberra. The Swinden Street Metro station is also about 1.4 km away.
Downer originated as a CSIRO agricultural research site in the 1930s and was used for opium poppy cultivation during World War II. Many of the large pine and gum trees around the local shops were planted then as windbreaks, and the area’s community centre and shops were originally built for the CSIRO.
The suburb sits on calcareous shales of the Canberra Formation, which are overlain by Quaternary alluvium deposits. This underlying limestone relates to Canberra’s historic nickname, “Limestone Plains.”
Downer falls within the federal electorate of Canberra, represented by Alicia Payne of the Labor Party. In the ACT Legislative Assembly it is part of the Kurrajong electorate.
Yes, a bronze kangaroo sculpture was unveiled in May 2019 near the Downer shopping centre, replacing an earlier piece that had gone missing.
