AVAILABLE NOW. This 2 Bedroom mid terrace House is much wider than the average 2 Bed and is situated on the popular Quilters Development too, the houses here having always maintained a high level of appeal over the years thanks to the convenient 5-6 minute walk to Billericay High Street - a packed historic high street with many well known high street names mixed with smaller privately owned boutiques, and a central Waitrose Store, and intermingled with many restaurants, bars and pubs - and an easy 17 minute stroll to the Railway Station at the other end (London Liverpool Street in 35 minutes).
The property itself has a nice size Hall, dual aspect19ft+ Lounge/Diner, kitchen with all the usual appliances, two double bedrooms (both with built-in wardrobes) and a swish refitted Bathroom.
The windows are all upvc double glazed, there's Gas Central Heating via radiator and as the house itself is a meter or so wider than average, with that comes a slightly wider than average Garden too - which is unoverlooked from the rear.
The Accommodation:
Painted in a lovely light pastel blue on the outside/white on the inside, the Front Door leads through to:
HALL
Being an unusually wide two bedroom house has allowed for a slightly wider hall as well.
The Beechwood effect laminate flooring runs through into the Kitchen and Lounge/Diner, and brand-new grey carpet runs up the stairs and throughout the first floor.
The understairs cupboard is surprisingly big - big enough in fact to house an undercounter Freezer (remaining), with plenty of room left for coats, shoes, vacuum cleaner, and everything else etc.
A front facing etched glass window provides a nice feature as well as bringing in lots of natural daylight.
LOUNGE/DINER 19ft 6' x 10ft max (6m x 3.1m)
A very light and bright, dual aspect living room with a front facing window and a rear set of double doors opening at the garden.
The feature electric Fire Suite is freestanding, and so can be moved around the room or taken away, as desired.
The eagle eyed may note that there is a rear curtain pole over the French doors, but nothing yet over the front facing window - a brand-new curtain pole is in the process of being put up here...
KITCHEN 9ft 7' x 6ft 4' (2.9m x 1.9m)
Fitted with 'White Oak' effect kitchen units topped with white granite effect worktops.
There is a built in Gas Hob with an integrated Extractor Hood above and Multifunction Oven/Grill below, a freestanding Bosch 'VarioPerfect Serie 4 EcoSilence Drive' Washing Machine and a freestanding undercounter Fridge - all will be remaining.
Hidden within one of the matching eye level cupboards is the Glow Worm 'Micron 40FF' Gas boiler serving the Gas Central Heating via radiators and hot water and sitting over the 1.5 bowl sink is the rear facing window, which enjoys a pleasant outlook over the garden and woodland behind.
Staircase from Hall to:
1st FLOOR LANDING
The built-in Airing Cupboard house is the 'Boiler Mate' hot water tank and looking up, we see the loft hatch accessing the nice size Loft which is partly boarded and also has a light.
BEDROOM ONE 10fft 2' x 9ft 10' (3.1m x 3m)
The measurements EXCLUSE a 5ft 3' wide double wardrobe with mirror fronted sliding doors.
As with the kitchen below, the rear facing window enjoys quite a nice outlook as there is a small landlocked woodland copse behind, which in the full leaf of Summer will render the houses now just visible behind, completely hidden.
BEDROOM TWO 13ft 3' x 7ft 7' (4.1m x 2.3m)
The measurements exclude the large built-in double wardrobe with mirror fronted sliding doors and a further built in cupboard going over the stairs.
This bedroom is notably well lit courtesy of its two front facing windows.
GARDEN
As mentioned, this is a wider than average two bedroom house and with that comes the benefit of a wider garden as well.
Two patio areas allow for catching the Sun at different times of the day, and in the top right hand corner, the old shed stands sturdy with a new felt roof.
A rear gate leads out to an area of dense undergrowth as part of the woodland copse, which other neighbours have cleared their beyond areas for hidden storage or use.
PARKING
Immediately in front are Two Bays allocated to this house. Both with retractable lockable parking posts.
Deposit: £1,557.00
Council Tax
Basildon Council, Band C
Notice
All photographs are 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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