29 Kerry Street, Athelstone SA 5076, Australia
The property is approximately 0.6 km from the Athelstone Recreation Reserve, making it a very short walk away.
Nearby green spaces include Aqueduct Plantation (1.3 km), Torrens Linear Park (1.3 km and again at 1.9 km), Wadmore Park (1.4 km), Black Hill Conservation Park (1.5 km), Foxfield Recreation Oval (2.0 km) and Thorndon Park Reserve (2.0 km).
The River Torrens borders Athelstone and serves as one of Adelaide’s major water supplies, flowing from Mount Pleasant to the sea. Its tributary, Fifth Creek, also passes through the suburb.
Gorge Road runs west–east through Athelstone, linking the area to the Adelaide Hills and the Kangaroo Creek Dam gorge.
The suburb features predominantly contemporary houses built from the 1970s onward, alongside earlier 20th‑century dwellings such as Californian bungalows with corrugated‑iron or stone exteriors.
Established in the 19th century and named after a house and mill built in the 1840s, Athelstone evolved from a village along the River Torrens into a leafy eastern suburb of Adelaide during the second half of the 20th century.
As of 2016, Athelstone had around 9,150 residents, predominantly middle‑class families with a balanced gender split; many households are multicultural, with notable Italian, Greek and Chinese language communities and a large share of residents aged 35‑74.
