82 Atherton Street, Downer ACT 2602, Australia
It is a house situated on a 790 m² block, providing a standalone family dwelling.
The property occupies 790 m² of land, offering a generous lot size for outdoor space and landscaping.
The nearest Canberra Metro station is on Swinden Street, about 0.5 km away, and the Dickson Interchange, another Metro hub, is roughly 1.1 km from the house.
Within about 1 km you’ll find the Canberra Racecourse, the National Hockey Centre, and the Dickson District Playing Fields, offering options for horse racing, field hockey and general sports.
The Dickson Centre precinct and the refurbished Downer shopping centre are around 1 km away, while the Old Canberra Inn and Quality Hotel Dickson are within 1.2 km, providing cafés, restaurants and accommodation.
Downer began as a CSIRO agricultural research site in the 1930s, served as an opium poppy plantation during World War II, and still features large pine and gum trees planted as windbreaks at that time.
The site sits on calcareous shales from the Canberra Formation, overlain by Quaternary alluvium, reflecting the limestone plains that gave Canberra its original name.
