- 3 Bedroom End Terrace House on the popular Chaucer Court commuter estate
- 0.76 Mile to Billericay Railway Station (London Liverpool Street in 35 minutes)
- 1 mile to Billericay High Street with its central Waitrose, shops, bars and restaurants
- 0.6 mile to the 40 acres of Lake Meadows Park with its large fishing lake and Cafe
- 0.6 mile to Brightside Primary School with its Good OFSTED Rating
- 3 minute walk to open Countryside
- Sunny WEST facing 47ft Garden
- Detached Garage with room to park two large vehicles in front of it
- Hall, Ground floor WC Room, 15' x 14' Lounge, 15' Kit/Diner, 3 Bedrooms + Bathroom
- New boiler for GCH via radiators and double glazed windows
Situated on the ever-popular Chaucer Court Commuter Development, this 3 Bedroom End Terrace House has a discreet Front Entrance, which once through the Front Door, unfolds into a good size home of nearly 900sq ft with a larger than average Garden for a modern development and a Garage with enough parking for 2 large vehicles in front of it.
This attractive estate was built circa 1994 by Wilcon Homes and is perfect for the City Worker wanting to be under a mile to the station - it is just 0.76 mile away.
The projecting Porch also houses a ground floor WC Room, and then leads on into a good size Lounge nearly 15ft (4.5m) square, then going on into the 15ft Kitchen/Diner. Both the Lounge and Dining Area have direct access out to the Garden.
Upstairs are the three bedrooms (2 doubles and a single) and the Bathroom.
There is Gas Central Heating via radiators - the boiler new last year, and double glazed windows.
Outside the 47ft max x 25ft Garden is West Facing, so enjoys the sun into the evenings - perfect for outside entertaining and a side gate provides direct access to the Driveway and Garage.
The Accommodation
Front Door through to:
HALL
With Cherrywood effect laminate flooring extending into the Lounge.
GROUND FLOOR WC ROOM
Fully tiled and with a 2-piece 'Cloakroom' suite and a front facing window.
LOUNGE 14ft 10' x 14ft (4.5m x 4.3m)'
A good size Lounge with a wide set of double doors opening out to the garden.
KITCHEN/DINER 14ft 9' x 9ft 5' (4.5m x 2.9m)
Slate effect flooring flows through both areas. The dining area has a set of French Doors opening out the Garden and the Kitchen area fitted with a range of 'Beach' effect kitchen units incorporating a newish built-in Bosch Gas Hob with a black ceramic Multi-function Oven/Grill below and spaces for a Washing Machine, Dishwasher and Fridge/Freezer.
A side window in the kitchen area provides additional light and upon the wall is a new Ideal Logic+ H15 Gas Boiler for the Gas Central Heating and Hot Water.
1st FLOOR LANDING
Doors off to:
MASTER BEDROOM 10ft 9' x 8ft 1' (3.3m x 2.5m)
The measurements exclude the built-in double wardrobe and the door recess.
The Beach effect double doors on the wardrobe match in with single robes either side of the King-size bed recess, which has bridging cupboards above for extra storage.
We noted a TV socket and a fairly pleasant outlook, with woodland to the left as you look out.
BEDROOM TWO 11ft max x 8ft 1' (3.35m x 2.5m)
The measurement exclude the door recess.
Another rear facing double bedroom, this one with a built-in cupboard housing the hot water cylinder and providing extra storage.
BEDROOM THREE 7ft 10' x 6ft 5' (2.4m x 2m)
The perfect nursery or study, with a front facing window.
BATHROOM 6ft 5' x 6ft 3' (2m x 1.9m)
Fitted with a white suite with mosaic tiling to the walls, a tall chrome towel radiator and a side facing window.
REAR GARDEN 47ft x 25ft (14m x 7.6m)
Commencing with a paved patio, the balance lawn, and with several young trees dotted around.
GARAGE 16ft 6' x 8ft 3' (5m x 2.5m)
With an up and over door, the electrics protected by a separate garage consumer unit and the pitched tiled roof providing extra storage 'up in the rafters'.
Deposit: £1,725.00
Council Tax
Basildon Council, Band D
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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