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- To pass referencing you will need to prove an income (combined if both of you work) of £43,500+
- - Or a healthy amount in savings if you are retired etc)
- (Referencing WILL pick up any CCJ's or poor Credit - Which regretfully will be an instant fail
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Set well back from the road and with a wide, Double Width Drive to the rear, this 3 Bedroom Terrace House also boasts a 60ft Garden.
The property enjoys a pleasant setting with rolling farmland beyond the woodland just behind the house and there's a public footpath access just a 'few doors down' too.
A private little road at the end of row of houses provides access to the Rear Drives of this run of four houses, each with a double width drive or Garage - this one with a Double Width Drive.
A BRAND NEW FENCE with a Gate is going up at the end of the Garden which will separate it from the Drive behind
The Accommodation comprises a nice size Hall (doubled as the last tenants Home Office during Covid), Lounge with feature Fireplace and a big window for maximum sunlight, modern Shaker style Kitchen with Oven, Hob, Fridge/Freezer & Washing Machine, modern white Bathroom, two lovely big double bedrooms and a third single bedroom.
The windows and double glazed and the Potterton Performa 30 HE Combination Boiler has an Efficiency Rating of 86.40% and being a Combination too, will help with those energy bills.
The Accommodation
HALL 7ft 5' x 7ft 2' (2.3m x 2.2m)
A great first impression. This oversized Hall provides plenty of room for shoes, coats, and prams, as well as having a large understairs cupboard housing the electrical consumer unit and gas meter.
Of note, the previous tenant (who was here 12 years), during Covid, worked from home here in the Hall with a small desk, as there is a double power socket and a BT Openreach Mk4 Master Socket 5C
Oak effect wood laminate flooring extends into the Lounge
LOUNGE 15ft x 12ft 6' (4.6m x 3.8m)
The focal point is the contemporary electric Fire Suite and plenty of light floods in through the wide front facing window too.
Although the window is quite large, several bushes and the trees the other side of the front boundary provide a good degree of seclusion.
Door through to
INNER HALL
Doors of to:
KITCHEN 11ft 2' x 8ft 4' (3.4m x 2.54m)
Fitted with an attractive range of Light Oak 'Shaker' style Kitchen units incorporating a brand new Sink and a built-in Gas Hob with a stainless steel Chimney style Extractor Hood above and a Multifunction Oven/Grill below.
The 1 year old freestanding Logic Fridge/Freezer with its swish little water dispenser on the front and the Hotpoint Smart Tech A++ Washing Machine will both be remaining.
Lots of sunlight comes through the glazed external back door and its accompanying window and hidden within the one of the eyelevel units is the Potterton Performa 30HE Combination Boiler serving the Gas Central Heating and hot water.
BATHROOM 6ft 7' x 5ft (2m x 1.5m)
its White Tiles and White Suite makes for a very light and bright bathroom, with a brand-new separate Shower over the brand-new Bath.
The grey stone effect vinyl flooring is also new and there is a handy mirror above the chrome towel radiator.
The rear facing window provides plenty of natural light and there is a shaver/toothbrush socket on the wall.
LANDING 13ft 6' x 6ft 10' (4.1m x 2.1m)
A surprisingly large landing with a big window too, which thus gives a great feeling of light and space.
With the replacement of the original boiler with a newer combination boiler, the airing cupboard has now been freed up to provide a superb full height storage facility.
The flip down Loft Hatch reveals a fitted Loft Ladder for easy access.
BEDROOM ONE 11ft 2' x 10ft 8' (3.4m x 3.25m)
A lovely size double bedroom with the huge rear window enjoying a super outlook over the woodland thicket behind, with its rolling farmland beyond.
BEDROOM TWO 11ft x 10ft 2' (3.35m x 3.1m)
Another large double bedroom, this one facing the front and also with a huge window maximising light.
Decorated with a nod to the great outdoors, the feature wall of green foliage and ferns gives a bold statement. The landlord is happy for this room to be redecorated/painted to a more neutral colour, if desired.
There is a freestanding Shaker style black wardrobe and a fitted bedside cabinet - both of which can be removed if required.
BEDROOM THREE 7ft 6' x 6ft 8' (2.3m x 2m)
A nicely decorated 'light blue' bedroom with feature ‘Blue tartan' wallpaper and an almost full width window flooding in light and like the master bedroom, also enjoying a quiet, almost rural outlook.
EXTERIOR - FRONT
Set well back from the road behind a low brick wall, the front garden is a nice size, mainly lawn and with a path leading up to the front door.
Of note, directly opposite the house is a Layby, providing handy visitor parking.
EXTERIOR - REAR GARDEN
Approximately 60ft long, the traditional rear garden is having a Brand-New Fence and Gate being put in at the bottom of the garden, over the next week or so (as of 18/11).
The Gate will provide direct access out to the rear Double Width Drive behind.
Towards the bottom of the Garden is a durable composite (plastic) Shed, which has armoured cable providing a supply of power to it - the previous tenant housed their Tumble Dryer there - which remains for your use if desired.
Obviously, this gives possibilities of an additional overspill freezer or fridge to be put in here as well.
There is also outside sensor lighting on the back of the house.
Deposit: £1,673.00
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.
The following are permitted payments which we may request from you:
a) The rent
b) A refundable tenancy deposit (reserved for any damages or defaults on the part of the tenant) capped at no more than five weeks' rent where the annual rent is less than £50,000, or six weeks' rent where the total annual rent is £50,000 or above
c) A refundable holding deposit (to reserve a property) capped at no more than one week's rent
d) Payments to change the tenancy when requested by the tenant, capped at £50, or reasonable costs incurred if higher
e) Payments associated with early termination of the tenancy, when requested by the tenant
f) Payments in respect of utilities, communication services, TV licence and council tax; and
g) A default fee for late payment of rent and replacement of a lost key/security device, where required under a tenancy agreement
Please call us if you wish to discuss this further.
