48 Discovery Street, Red Hill ACT 2603, Australia
The property is a house with three bedrooms and one bathroom, situated on a generous 879 m² block. The sizable lot provides ample outdoor space for gardening or recreation.
It is within walking distance of several parks: Navigators Park is about 0.2 km away, Voyager Park 0.5 km, and Rocky Knob Park roughly 0.9 km. The larger Red Hill Nature Park surrounds the suburb, offering bushwalking and wildlife.
The suburb's centerpiece is the Red Hill ridge, managed as part of the Canberra Nature Park. It provides bushwalking trails and habitats for kangaroos, birds and a variety of native flora.
The historic Calthorpes' House at 24 Mugga Way, a 1927 Spanish‑Mission style home, lies nearby, as does the former Boxford garden, once listed on the ACT Heritage Register. Both reflect the area's early 20th‑century architecture and garden design.
Primary routes include Hindmarsh Drive connecting to Mugga Way and Dalrymple Street, with internal streets such as La Perouse Street, Flinders Way and Monaro Crescent traversing the suburb. These routes link the area to the wider Canberra road network.
The suburb sits on the Yarralumla Formation with deep red terra rossa soils, giving the area its characteristic coloration. Beneath the soils lies a Silurian tonalite intrusion, known as the Federal Golf Course Tonalite, dated to about 417 million years ago.
Red Hill was gazetted as a suburb in 1928 and originally formed part of the Narrabundah lease, which transitioned from sheep to cattle grazing. Its streetscapes reflect 1920s garden‑city planning and the area now features several heritage‑listed buildings.
