This spacious Five Bedroom Detached Home on the prestigious Norsey Road, showcases classic 1980s Tudor revival architecture with distinctive beams, complemented by tall privacy-enhancing conifers along the rear boundary.
The property boasts high-quality fixtures throughout, with generous living spaces including an impressive Entrance Hall, massive Lounge, and a truly exceptional dining room measuring 18 feet square. A cozy third reception room serves as an ideal snug or TV room, while the elongated kitchen provides a comprehensive amount of units for maximum storage.
Upstairs features the Five substantial bedrooms, including a Master Bedroom with an expansive ensuite. Built-in storage solutions appear throughout the sleeping quarters and the property includes two full bathrooms of generous proportions.
The garden's centerpiece is an open-air swimming pool, creating a resort-like atmosphere in a completely private setting. Supplementing the main residence is a two-room pool house with a shower room that offers excellent potential for conversion into a self-contained annex.
The property's impressive parking accommodations include a detached double garage with electric door and valuable overhead storage, plus a sweeping driveway with capacity for seven vehicles.
This property presents an excellent opportunity for buyers seeking a substantial family home with the space and framework to create their ideal living environment.
ACCOMMODATION AS FOLLOWS..
RECEPTION HALL
The entrance door has glazed side panels on either side, and the tiled floor extends right through to the rear double doors, offering an immediate view of the garden.
Stairs with turned balustrades rise to the first floor, and panel doors open to the remaining rooms.
KITCHEN/DINER 7.08 m x 2.94 m (23'3 x 9 8)
The tiled floor from the hallway continues into the kitchen, where there is a selection of base and wall cabinets with contrasting granite tops.
The cupboards house an integrated fridge and freezer, a built-in Neff oven and gas hob with a canopy over, and a built-in microwave while preserving a space for a dishwasher.
A dresser-style unit that matches the remainder of the kitchen sits within the dining area, where there is also a side door.
DINING ROOM 5.94 m x 5.54 m (19' 6 x 18 2)
What an incredible space for entertaining.
Double doors open from the hallway into this vast dining room, which features glossy floor tiles, two chandelier points, and both front and side windows. A corner cupboard houses the Worcester boiler.
LOUNGE 7.08 m x 4.53 m max (23 3 x 14 10 max)
With a front bay window and rear double doors leading to the garden, this room featuring a lovely fire surround benefits from a high level of natural light and a wonderful feeling of spaciousness.
REAR STUDY AREA 4.02 m x 2.48 m (13'2 x 8 2)
Being open to the hall and with double doors to the garden, this sitting area flows freely from the hallway.
SECOND REAR SITTING AREA 4.02 m x 3.45 m (13' 2 x 11 4)
This second sitting/TV room is also open to the hall and, with double doors to the garden, flows freely between the garden and hallway.
CLOAKROOM
This fully tiled space has a white suite that consists of a push-button WC and a pedestal wash basin.
LANDING
The large central landing, with a front window, offers an impressive amount of space and has doors opening to each room.
BEDROOM ONE 5.91 m x 5.54 m (19'5 max x 18'2)
Another vast space, situated above the dining room, with windows on two aspects.
Currently enjoying a range of fitted bedroom furniture, there is ample room to configure this bedroom to your preferred design.
EN-SUITE BATHROOM 2.91 m x 2.71 m (9' 6 x 8 11)
Luxuriously fitted with a five-piece white suite, this room features granite floor tiles and complementary wall tiling.
It also features separate his and her washbasins with mirrors behind, a push-button WC, a panel bath with central mixer taps, and a separate shower cubicle with a drench-head shower unit.
BEDROOM TWO 4.1 m x 4.02 m (13'6 x 13 2)
Currently utilised as a dressing room, this rear-facing bedroom features fitted wardrobes on two walls, providing a fantastic level of storage.
BEDROOM THREE 4.3 m x 4.02 m (14 1 x 13'2)
Overlooking the garden, this bedroom also includes a range of fitted bedroom furniture.
BEDROOM FOUR 3.97 m x 3.24 m (13 x 10 8)
This fourth double bedroom has a full-size mirror covering the entire wall projection, and built-in wardrobes on one wall.
BEDROOM FIVE 3.47 m x 2.95 m (11' 5 x 9 8)
Another great-sized room with fitted wardrobes, currently used as an office.
BATHROOM 2.91 m x 2.7 m (9' 6 x 8 10)
Beige gloss floor tiles complement the two-tone wall tiles. The white suite consists of a panel bath with mixer taps and shower attachment, a push-button WC, and a vanity unit with wash basin, built-in storage, and an illuminated mirror above.
OUTSIDE
FRONT
The house sits well back from the road, and its brick-paved in-and-out drive provides parking for numerous vehicles, while established shrubs offer a good degree of privacy.
DOUBLE GARAGE 5.83 m x 5.33 m (9' 2 x 17 6)
The up-and-over door ensures easy access into the garage, which also has power and light connected, along with a rear door for convenient access.
REAR GARDEN
With established borders, the rear garden with its centrally positioned swimming pool enjoys a high level of privacy.
The mixture of patio areas across the rear of the house, the raised area with the pool, and the adjoining lawn create a resort-style feel.
Positioned to one side of the garden and attached to the house is a three-room building used as a changing area.
ANNEXE ACCOMMODATION/CHANGING ROOM
Consisting of three separate rooms, these are currently used as a changing room but could easily be converted into an attached annexe.
ROOM ONE 3.66 m x 2.81 m (12 x 9 2)
A window and door open to the patio area of the garden, and from this room, there is a door to the shower room and an additional room.
SHOWER ROOM
With a simple three-piece suite, this consists of a shower cubicle with electric shower, WC, and wall-mounted hand basin.
ROOM TWO 5.24 m max x 2.81 m (17'2 max x 9'2)
This second room features a bay window looking onto the front of the house.
Council Tax
Basildon Council, Band G
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.
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.
