Albion Court, Billericay

Offers Over £275,000 - New Instruction


  • Prime location near Billericay High Street and Waitrose
  • One-bedroom ground-floor apartment with patio door access to gardens
  • Spacious lounge with separate dining area and kitchen
  • Refitted shower room with modern low-profile shower
  • Bedroom with built-in wardrobe and westerly aspect windows
  • Residents' lounge for social events and guest suite available
  • Communal gardens, laundry room, and lift to all floors
  • 24-hour care call system for emergency assistance
  • Resident parking with consistent availability
  • Lease has 90 years remaining

Positioned just off Billericay High Street, in a prime town centre setting, Albion Court, with its beautifully tended grounds, remains a popular choice for those looking for a retirement flat close to all amenities.

It goes without saying that the appeal and convenience of being just steps away from the High Street and within a matter of a few minutes' walk from Waitrose ensures its popularity will continue for many years to come.

Overlooking the private communal gardens, this well-proportioned one-bedroom ground-floor apartment enjoys the immense appeal of having a patio door that opens directly onto some those gardens.

The accommodation briefly comprises an entrance hall with two built-in cupboards, a refitted shower room with a low-profile shower tray, a bedroom with a built-in wardrobe, and a lounge with a separate dining area and adjoining kitchen. Of course, the patio doors open to an outdoor paved area on the west side of the building.

As with most retirement developments, there are communal facilities. At Albion Court, these include a residents' lounge, which is used for regular social events but is also available for entertaining friends and family; a laundry room with allocated usage times; and a guest suite available by prior booking. There is also a lift to all floors, resident parking, and gardens surrounding the property.

The development is managed by daytime staff, plus there is a 24-hour care call system for round-the-clock emergency assistance.


ACCOMODATION AS FOLLOWS..


HALLWAY

This area has two built-in storage cupboards one housing the hot and cold water tanks and the other providing additional storage. From here, there are doors to the bedroom, bathroom, and living areas.


BEDROOM

In addition to a built-in wardrobe with sliding doors, this light and bright bedroom benefits from two windows with a westerly aspect.


BATHROOM

This refitted shower room features a modern white suite consisting of a push-button WC, a pedestal wash basin, and a shower cubicle with a low-profile tray, a glass screen, grab handles, and an electric shower.

The room also includes a tiled floor, tiled walls, and an extractor fan.


LIVING AREA

The main living area is thoughtfully shaped and divided into two distinct sections: one for a dining table and chairs and the other as a lounge area. The lounge area features a window and sliding patio doors that open onto a small paved outdoor space.

Open access is provided from the lounge into the kitchen.


KITCHEN

A simple range of units provides storage and space for a fridge freezer, cooker, and washing machine.


PARKING

Resident parking is available to the side of the building. During our frequent visits over the years, parking spaces have always been accessible.


COMMUNAL FACILITIES

Within the building, there is a laundrette, a residents' lounge available for gatherings, and a guest suite that can be booked.


LEASE AND SERVICE CHARGE INFORMATION

Each of the properties was originally sold on a lease of 125 years from 1989, leaving 90 years remaining.

We understand the current service charge for a 1 bedroom property is approx £220 per month. This covers gardening, external and common area maintenance, the resident manager's costs, the provision of the 24-hour care system, and building insurance.



Council Tax
Basildon Council, Band C

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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.


Billericay is a popular, historic market town just 30 miles from London.

The market at the top of Crown Road disappeared years ago and Billericay nowadays is more well-known as an excellent commuter town, with excellent rail links to the City (35 minutes by train), very good schools and a charming High Street, part of which is a conservation area.

It also has great access to the key main roads of the M25, A12 and A127.

The town lies on the edge of rural Essex, which makes it a very desirable place to live. This coupled with the City access goes some way to explain the high levels of Londoners we see looking to move here every year.

Since I moved here in 1973 and started as an estate agent in the mid 1990's, I have seen the town grow to where it is now, with some 14,000-15,000 homes and a population of over 40,000.

The Billericay you see today is economically and physically a thriving and attractive place to live and work. There are many open green spaces including the 40 acre Lake Meadows Park, a must in summer, and they throw a pretty impressive Fireworks Night too.

Norsey Woods is a great place for a walk or to exercise your dogs...or the kids! It dates back to the Bronze Age and covers about 165 acres with a visitor centre for the educational visits it has too.
I remember camping there as a cub scout back in the day and both Nick and myself have enjoyed many a afternoon there over the years with our families.

The High Street must be one of the prettiest in the county and dates back to Roman times. The shape we see now certainly hasn't changed much for over 500 years, our office itself is part of one of the 25 old coaching inns the town has seen over the years!

With well over 100 shops including some well known names and some boutique locally owned ones, the High Street also has some great pubs, bars and restaurants. The Chequers is probably the most popular, most people we know rate it as the best pub in town, with newer bars like Harrys Bar, Bar Zero and the Blue Boar, also very sought after, growing venues on friday and saturday nights.

There are too many great restaurants to name, suffice to say you don't need to travel out of Billericay to have a fantastic night out and there's a taxi rank by the station to get you home if you want to leave the car on the drive.

Waitrose is our local main supermarket with there also a very good Co-op over on Queens Park. Smaller supermarkets over in South Green, Sunnymede and along Stock Road also provide a super local service in their areas.

Billericay Christmas Market is a very popular annual event which sees the High Street completely shut to traffic for the day and then filled with stalls selling anything and everything Christmasy!

All the local schools, both Primary and Secondary have good OFSTED reports and there is a good choice of both State and Private. Please feel free to contact our office for more details although the OFSTED website is the ideal first port of call of course.


A BIT OF HISTORY

Billericay has an facinating history, much of which can be researched in our local museum, the Cater Museum on the High Street.

Billericay was first recorded as Byllerica in 1291 with notable events including a Peasants Revolt ending up in Norsey Woods in 1381 and some of Billericay residents, including Christopher Martin, the ship's victualler, sailing with the Pilgrim Fathers to the 'New World' of America on the Mayflower in 1620 - hence the many representartions of the Mayflower ship in numerous local businesses and the Mayflower High School.

In 1916 Billericay became famous as a result of a Zeppelin airship crashing in flames on the outskirts of the town, down what is now Greens Farm Lane.

A union workhouse was built in 1840 which later, together with additional later built buildings, became St. Andrew's Hospital in the 1930s. The regional plastic surgery and rehabilitation unit was opened here the same year I moved to Billericay, 1973. Many a local will still refer the estate there now to me, as 'one of the houses on the old Burns Unit', although it is in fact Stockfield Manor now.
Only the original workhouse building, including the chapel, and the main gatehouse, now survive, converted now into Grey Lady Place, a residential development of luxury apartments.

The railway came in 1889 and opened up opportunities for landowners to sell plots to Londoners looking to move out of 'The Smoke' into a cleaner rural environment. Both myself and Nick have sold many an old 'plot land' home over the years for redevelopment. A few still remain on the edge of Norsey Woods down Break Egg Hill.

With the housing shortage created by the war time bombing of London, pressure to build was great and the new town of Basildon was given the green light. The 'Green Belt' stopped expansion and the blurring of Basildon and Billericay, hence why lot of the Billericay housing estates were built on abandoned farmland around the town centre and Great Burstead/South Green, where permission was more easily granted.
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EER Chart

The Energy-Efficiency Rating is a measure of a home's overall efficiency. The higher the rating, the more energy-efficient the home is, and the lower the fuel bills are likely to be.

Utility Supply Type
Electric Mains Supply
Gas None
Water Mains Supply
Sewerage Mains Supply
Broadband FTTC
Telephone Landline

Other Items Description
Heating Not Specified
Garden/Outside Space No
Parking No
Garage No

Broadband Coverage Highest Available Download Speed Highest Available Upload Speed
Standard 18 Mbps 1 Mbps
Superfast 80 Mbps 20 Mbps
Ultrafast Not Available Not Available

Mobile Coverage Indoor Voice Indoor Data Outdoor Voice Outdoor Data
EE Enhanced Enhanced Enhanced Enhanced
Three Likely Likely Enhanced Enhanced
O2 Enhanced Enhanced Enhanced Enhanced
Vodafone Enhanced Enhanced Enhanced Enhanced

Broadband and Mobile coverage information supplied by Ofcom.


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