- 3 Bed Mid Terrace House with large Front Drive, good size accommodation & 43ft West facing Garden
- A much loved family home on the market for the first time in 40 years
- 19ft (nearly 6 m) Front-to-back Lounge with Fireplace and windows either end for maximum light
- 12ft Kitchen/Diner with understairs cupboard providing additional storage
- 15ft Utility Room offering an array of options: dining room/study/playroom/increase kitchen size/etc
- Spacious Landing which is light and airy too courtesy of a rear facing window
- 3 generous bedrooms (two doubles and a good size single)
- Bathroom and separate WC Room (which could be knocked into one larger bathroom)
- 4 min walk to open countryside, St Peters RC School & two great Pub/Restaurants
- Easy walk to South Green Infants & Junior Schools and local shopping parade
A much loved family home for over 40 years, this 3 Bedroom Mid Terrace House is on the market for the first time since.
Offering great value with so much potential, the large front Drive, sizeable living space and the 43ft West Facing Garden makes this a sensible first property.
Inside, the internal accommodation briefly comprises Hall, 19ft front-to-back Lounge, 12ft Kitchen/Diner, 15ft Utility Room (there's so many options for this room!), spacious Landing, the three bedrooms (two doubles and one good size single) and a Bathroom with a separate WC Room.
The property is also well located, with St Peters Roman Catholic School, open countryside, the ever popular Kings Head pub/restaurant and the recently refurbished Duke of York Pub/Restaurant all 4-5 minute strolls and the local shopping parade and South Green Infants & Primary within easy walking distance too.
Billericay High Street with its central Waitrose Store and the Mainline Railway Station (London Liverpool Street in 35 minutes) are just a few minutes' drive away and you can be whizzing along the London to Southend A127 in 5 minutes too.
THE ACCOMMODATION
UPVC front door with adjacent side light windows leading through to:
HALL
With the stairs ahead rising to the first floor accommodation, a door to the left leading through to the Lounge and a door ahead going into the Kitchen.
LOUNGE 19ft x 12ft (5.8m x 3.7m)
A particularly spacious room and nice and bright too, courtesy of the big windows at either end.
A gas fire sits in front of the original Fireplace
KITCHEN/DINER 12ft x 7ft 10' (3.7m x 2.4m)
This sunny rear facing Kitchen has a range of fitted units incorporating spaces for an Electric Cooker (there's also gas point behind and an Extractor Hood over the top), washing machine and undercounter fridge (The Owners keep a further fridge and the freezer in the utility room).
The understairs cupboard provides additional storage and plenty of light floods through the rear facing window and the part glazed UPVC back door
UTILITY ROOM 15ft 5' x 6ft (4.7m x 1.8m)
More than just a utility room, this versatile space offers oodles of potential.
Similar properties have opened it up with the kitchen, others have converted it into dining rooms/playrooms/study's, some as dual purpose rooms. The choice is yours!
A front facing window and the glazed second front door gives plenty of light too.
1st FLOOR LANDING
A notably nice side, light, and airy landing and well-lit by the rear facing window. The built-in airing cupboard, now minus the hot water tank due to a combination boiler, provides a super storage facility.
The loft hatch flips down to reveal access to the loft via a pull-down ladder
BEDROOM ONE 11ft 10' x 11ft (3.6m x 3.35m)
A good size double bedroom with two front facing windows for maximum light and a large built in cupboard going over the stairs.
BEDROOM TWO 11ft x 9ft (3.35m x 2.7m)
Another front facing double bedroom, this one with two large built-in cupboards
BEDROOM THREE 9ft x 7ft 8' (2.7m x 2.3m)
A rear facing good size single bedroom.
BATHROOM
Dated but clean and functional with a Triton electric shower over the Bath and a rear facing window for natural light.
SEPARATE WC ROOM
With a low-level WC and a rear facing window.
(There is the clear potential to knock through the existing Bathroom and adjacent WC to create a larger family bathroom)
FRONT DRIVE
The front drive provides parking for two cars with the potential for the extra strip of lawn down the side to be made into additional parking if desired.
43ft (13m) WEST FACING REAR GARDEN
A sunny, traditionally laid out Garden with a paved patio running on to the central Lawn, with flower borders and a path leading down to the shed in the top right hand corner and a greenhouse in the top left hand corner.
Council Tax
Basildon Council, Band C
Notice
Please note we have not tested any apparatus, fixtures, fittings, or services. Interested parties must undertake their own investigation into the working order of these items. All measurements are approximate and photographs provided for guidance only.
Great Burstead as a village dates back at least to AD500, when it was settled by Saxons, from Lower Saxony, nowadays better known as Germany. It was first recorded, about 975, as 'Burgestede' meaning 'stronghold-site'.
The adjacent village of South Green was first recorded as 'Southwood Greene' in 1593, becoming the more recognised South Green in 1777.
GREAT BURSTEAD
The centrepiece of Great Burstead is the Conservation area, centred around the Church of St. Mary Magdalene on Church Street and a trio of listed buildings, one of which I had the pleasure of selling about ten years ago - a beautiful16th-17th century timber framed house.
The Grade 1 listed Norman church dates back to the 12th century and was the original parish church for the whole of the area, in those days encompassing Billericay too.
Great Burstead has a great local pub on the corner of Mill Road and Southend Road, which serves great food.
The King's Head Pub dates back to 1750 when it was known as the White Horse and interestingly travellers to and from Rochford and Brentwood would stop here before passing through the toll-gate which I think stood adjacent.
The 'Outstanding' St Peter's Catholic Primary School on Coxes Farm Road is almost opposite the pub and at school run times you'll often see the Lollipop Man/Lady on duty, guiding the children across the road in front of the pub.
Along Kennel Lane are the popular small housing estates of Coopers Croft and Froden Brook. Pretty developments built in the early 1990's by Countryside Homes, on the site of the Balls Plastics factory.
The old brook itself is still there, running underground but surfaces as a culvert in the lower part of Church Street.
Opposite the developments, on the other side of Kennel Lane, is a 1.25 acre, 12ft plus deep (in places) reed fringed Fishing Lake with a good mix of different fish.
As a local agent, I associate the whole of Church Street, Mill Road, Kennel Lane and some of the roads off these as Great Burstead. A few other pockets fall into the area (part of Southend Road, Coxes Farm Road and Grange Road, etc), with the rest coming under South Green.
SOUTH GREEN
Towards the top of Bell Hill, Gatwick House, a Grade II listed building from 1767, now secluded from the road by trees, presides over the area which heads down towards the village green on the right.
A great parade of shops on Grange Road overlook the ancient 'Green' (originally much bigger) and together they form the heart of the area.
The shops include a Tesco Express Supermarket, Post Office, Chemist, Greengrocer and a pretty good fish and chip shop.
The local South Green Infants & Junior Schools both have 'Good' OFSTED Reports and the area falls within catchment for Billericay Secondary School, also benefiting from a 'Good' OFSTED rating.
Built in 1956 the local village hall serves the community well and on the opposite side of the road a bit further up, 'Main Road Garage' provides petrol and the usual garage services.
The bulk of the residential development has been London Borough estates, built in the 1950's and 1960's to cater for London overspill. That said, there is a number of old properties in the area, particularly around the Green, providing character appeal.
Finally, public transport. There are bus stops a-plenty in the area taking you to Billericay High Street and Mainline Railway Station in minutes and the surrounding towns in little more.
In 1997 legislation was passed resulting in the two parishes coming under the Billericay area of the Basildon District Council.
Tim Kirkman
