61 Blacket Street, Downer ACT 2602, Australia
61 Blacket Street is a stand‑alone house situated on a 585 m² block. The generous lot provides ample space for a garden or outdoor living area.
Downer lies in Canberra’s inner north, bounded by Northbourne Avenue, Antill Street and Philip Avenue. It is part of the city’s central residential belt.
The area was originally a CSIRO agricultural research facility in the 1930s, later used for opium poppy cultivation during World War II. Many of the large pine and gum trees around the former centre were planted then as windbreaks.
The site sits on calcareous shales from the Canberra Formation, which are overlain by Quaternary alluvium. These limestone‑rich rocks gave Canberra its early name, “Limestone Plains.”
Within a short walk you’ll find Dickson Library (≈0.1 km) and the Dickson Centre (≈0.3 km) with shops and cafés, as well as a refurbished community centre that now hosts a café, veterinary clinic and a bronze kangaroo sculpture. Natural spots such as Dickson Wetland and the District Playing Fields are also within a kilometre.
The Dickson Interchange metro station is about 0.6 km away, providing easy access to Canberra’s light‑rail network. The Swinden Street station is also nearby, roughly 0.7 km from the house.
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, which elects two Labor, one Green, one Liberal and one Independent member.
