14 Standbridge Place, Spence ACT 2615, Australia
14 Standbridge Place is a detached house situated on a sizeable block of land measuring 818 m². The property offers the space and privacy typical of a suburban home.
The house is located in the suburb of Spence, which lies within the Belconnen district of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. Spence was gazetted in 1972 and its streets honour trade unionists.
Spence is directly adjacent to the suburbs of Fraser, Melba and Evatt. It is bounded to the south by Owen Dixon Drive and Kuringa Drive, and also touches Alpen Street and Copland Drive.
A local shopping centre within Spence provides a butcher, hairdresser, bakery, chemist, supermarket and a petrol station, with a coffee shop inside the supermarket. Another shopping precinct, known as the Spence/Evatt Shops, is on Copland Drive and sits next to the rebuilt Tongan Community Centre.
The suburb features a neighbourhood oval near Clarey Crescent, though it has been in disrepair since the early 2000s. A larger green area, George Simpson Park, lies roughly 2 km away, and the Mount Rogers water tower hill is about 0.6 km from the property.
Spence sits on Silurian‑age Hawkins Volcanics, including green‑grey dacite, quartz‑andesite and dacitic porphyry with white feldspar crystals. A shale lens from the same volcanic formation is also present in the south‑central part of the suburb.
The former Spence Primary School now hosts community organisations, including the Mount Rogers Community (Anglican) Church, which runs a donation‑only café called “Coffee Corner”. The nearby Tongan Community Centre also serves local residents with cultural and social events.
