143 Starke Street, Holt ACT 2615, Australia
The property sits on a block of land measuring 803 m². This provides a sizable garden area for a typical house in Holt.
Kippax Fair Shopping Centre is about 0.5 km from 143 Starke Street, making it a short walk or a quick drive for groceries and services.
The home is adjacent to the Belconnen Magpies golf course and bordered by open farm and bushland. Holt also offers a neighbourhood oval, sporting fields, and easy access to the Molongolo River for outdoor activities.
Holt lies on Silurian age volcanic rocks, including purple‑pink rhyolite in the north‑east, purple and green tuff to the east, and purple rhyodacite in the north. The western and southern parts contain Walker Volcanics rhyodacite and limestone‑shale sedimentary exposures.
Holt is home to four churches: St John the Apostle Catholic Church on Blackham Street, St James' Anglican Church on Beaurepaire Street, Kippax Uniting Church on Hardwick Crescent and Luke Street, and St Therese of the Child Jesus (Society of Saint Pius X) on Beaurepaire Crescent.
For federal elections, Holt is in the Division of Fenner. For ACT Legislative Assembly elections, it is part of the Ginninderra electorate.
Holt was gazetted on 2 July 1970 and is named after Harold Holt, who served as Prime Minister of Australia from 1966 to 1967.
