7 Barney Street, Downer ACT 2602, Australia
| Event | Date | Price | Price per m² |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sold | Nov 2023 | $1,231,000 | $1,697 |
| Sold | Feb 1992 | $146,950 | $202 |
Price per m² based on land size of 725 m².
The property sits on a 725 m² land parcel.
The house features four bedrooms and one bathroom.
It is a stand‑alone house.
Swinden Street is about 0.1 km away and provides access to the Canberra Metro station, while the Dickson Interchange is approximately 0.6 km from the property.
Within a 0.6–0.8 km walk you can reach the Dickson Centre (shops, cafe and vet clinic), the National Hockey Centre, Quality Hotel Dickson, St Ninian's Church and the Old Canberra Inn.
Downer sits on calcareous shales from the Canberra Formation overlain by Quaternary alluvium, the limestone that gave Canberra its original name “Limestone Plains.”
The suburb originated as a CSIRO agricultural research facility; between 1939 and 1945 it operated as an opium poppy plantation to supply medication during wartime, and many of the large pine and gum trees were planted then as windbreaks.
