- Corner Plot With An Incredible 120' Garden
- Four Bedrooms Across Two Floors
- Principal Bedroom With Dressing Area & Generous En-Suite
- Ground Floor Bedroom and Bathroom
- Large Lounge 6.83m x 4.01m With Open Fire & Home Office Space
- Kitchen 3.00m x 2.57m With Adjoining Utility Area
- Garden Enjoys The Bulk Of The Day's Sunshine
- Detached Garage Plus Private Driveway & Outside Storage Sheds
- Large Patio Area Perfect For Outdoor Entertaining
- A Home That Offers Far More Than Meets The Eye
A spacious Four Bedroom Semi-Detached Home with a 120ft x 60ft max 'wedge' shaped Garden, discreetly positioned at the end of Trinity Close, a peaceful cul-de-sac just a short stroll from Grange Road's shops (including a Tesco Express), and only 300 yards from open countryside.
The 'Outstanding' OFSTED rated St Peter's Catholic Primary, South Green Infants & Juniors (both with good Ofsted reports), the Kings Head and The Duke of York pub/restaurants, are all within 0.6 mile, with local buses connecting you to the High Street, Station and beyond to Chelmsford and Basildon.
Inside, the generous accommodation comprises to the ground floor, an open plan Lounge/Study (22ft 5" x 13ft), with bifold doors to Garden, a separate Dining Room, fitted Kitchen with a Range Cooker, and a walk-through Utility Room entrance, ground floor 4th Bedroom/reception room and bathroom, with stairs in the Hall going upstairs to the 3 bedrooms - the impressive Master Bedroom actually a 3'Room Bedroom Suite with a Dressing Room with full-height mirrored wardrobes, a double bedroom, and a huge, stunning Ensuite Shower Room with a Double Vanity, walk-in Shower and skylight. The two further double bedrooms both enjoy pleasant rear views.
The substantial enclosed garden (approx. 435 sq m) enjoys sunshine throughout the day and the long drive leads past the Front Drive to the Garage.
The property benefits from gas central heating and of note, a newly replaced covering over the flat roof over the rear dormer.
The Accommodation in more detail:
HALL
Winding round past the ground floor bottom on the left, front-facing fourth bedroom on the right, and with its own handy built-in corner cupboard housing the modern electrical consumer unit.
OPEN PLAN LOUNGE/STUDY 22ft 5" x 13ft 1" narrowing to 9ft 6" (6.83m x 3.99m narrowing to 2.9m)
A versatile room presently used as a cosy lounge with a separate home office area at the far end.
It is a dual-aspect room, so both areas have their own windows a large window in the 'Home Office' area and a set of bifold doors in the Lounge area opening out to the rear terrace.
The focal point of the lounge is the Fireplace.
DINING ROOM 11ft 5" x 7ft 5" (3.48m x 2.26m)
With plenty of room for a six-seater table and with a doorway leading through to the utility room, which in turn leads through to the kitchen.
KITCHEN 9ft 10" x 8ft 6" (3m x 2.59m)
Fitted with a range of grey kitchen units topped with 'Wild Walnut' effect worktops, complemented by white 'Metro' splashback tiling and jazzy geometric flooring.
The Flavel Milano 100 'MLN10CR' range cooker, with its twin ovens, grill, pan storage and 6-ring electric hob, will be remaining.
There is also space for a freestanding dishwasher.
WALK-THROUGH UTILITY ROOM 7ft 4" x 4ft (2.24m x 1.22m)
On the left as you go through is a fitted worktop, matching the kitchen, with fitted cupboards above and spaces for the washing machine and tumble dryer below.
On the right is a large 4ft wide recess housing the sellers' American-style fridge/freezer.
GROUND FLOOR 4TH BEDROOM/ADDITIONAL RECEPTION ROOM 12ft 6" x 9ft (3.81m x 2.74m)
A versatile ground floor room that works equally well as a fourth bedroom, a home office or an additional reception room. A genuinely flexible room that adapts to your needs.
GROUND FLOOR BATHROOM 10ft 5" x 4ft 3" (3.18m x 1.3m)
Fitted with a white suite, the corner bath with a separate shower over.
Modern light grey metro tiles and attractive wood-effect flooring complete the look, and a front-facing window provides plenty of natural light.
Stairs from hall to:
1st FLOOR LANDING
Doors off to:
MASTER BEDROOM SUITE
A 3-Room Suite comprising a central Dressing Room with a wing to the right housing the main Bedroom area, and a wing to the left housing the huge luxury Ensuite Shower Room.
MAIN OPEN PLAN, SPLIT LEVEL BEDROOM AND DRESSING ROOM 14ft 10" x 10ft 2" narrowing to 8ft 2" (4.52m x 3.1m > 2.49m)
The central dressing room has a large full-height wardrobe across the back wall, with twin mirror-fronted sliding doors.
The bedroom area takes a large double bed with ease and has a rear-facing window and a feature central panel light with a modern square white design and RGB background lighting.
ENSUITE SHOWER ROOM 10ft 5" x 7ft 6" (3.18m x 2.29m)
It's huge! Gorgeous and huge!
On the left as you enter is a double Vanity Unit with feature 'linear mosaic' effect tiles and open shelving below, each basin matched by a circular mirror above. Very eye-catching.
On the right is a 3ft 9" x 2ft 4" (1150mm X 700mm) walk-in glass-framed shower.
Further specification includes a close-coupled WC, curved chrome towel radiator, LED lighting, a shaver/toothbrush socket and a skylight window for natural light and if you look closely, a discreet set of 4ft 7" (1.4m) high double doors, that 'push to open', revealing extra loft storage space.
BEDROOM TWO 11ft 4" x 8ft (3.45m x 2.44m)
A lovely-sized double bedroom with a wide rear-facing window.
BEDROOM THREE 14ft 3" x 6ft 7" (4.34m x 2m)
Yet another fine-sized room that could squeeze in a double bed very easily at the far end, leaving plenty of room at the near end for wardrobes and chests of drawers.
The wide rear-facing window has a notably pleasant outlook, with far-reaching views to the south.
GARDEN
It's a big garden!
The eastern boundary runs along 120ft (36.2m) and the southeast one 106ft (32.64m).
The enclosed rear garden area is approximately 435 sq m (4,682.5 sq ft) the perimeter runs around 100m (330ft).
FYI, the plot size in total is 0.14 of an acre.
Outside the bifold doors from the lounge and the kitchen back door is a flagstone raised terrace, which steps down to a large, shingled area and then runs onto the lawn.
There is a sturdy shed on the right, a children's summerhouse at the bottom of the garden which could be refurbished, and hardstanding behind the kitchen extension for a small shed or perhaps a barbecue area.
At the end of the shared drive (which next door cannot use, as their garage has been replaced by a rather large side extension!) is the garage, with timber double doors.
Due to its favourable aspect, the Garden enjoys the bulk of the day's sunshine, and the large lawn completes this vast outdoor space.
DRIVE
The long Drive runs down, past the light grey block paved 'Front Drive' and round to an area in front of the Garage.
Yes, technically it is a shared drive, but as you can see, the next door neighbours long front garden has been paved over, and they use this as their drive.
Council Tax
Basildon Council, Band D
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.
