Albion Court, Billericay

Price £250,000 - Under Offer


  • Town Centre Retirement Apartment
  • One of the Only Ground Floor Apartments with Doors to the Garden
  • Internally Refurbished
  • Newly Fitted Kitchen Area
  • Modern Shower Room With Corner Shower
  • Bedroom With Mirror Fronted Wardrobes
  • Replacement Electric Heaters and other Economical Improvements
  • Patio Area For Table and Chairs
  • Residents Carpark, Communal Lounge and Laundry
  • Early Viewing Suggested

This has to be one of the most appealing one bedroom apartments within this town centre retirement development which is ideally placed for the short walk into the High Street and all the facilities available.

Not only is the apartment on the ground floor but it also has its own uPVC double doors leading out from the lounge into the communal gardens where there is a small patio with space for a table and chairs. In addition, being positioned towards the rear of the building, its front door is just 20 feet away from the secondary side entrance door located by the car park.

Over the course of the last few years there have been several improvements including new UPVC double glazed windows, replacement electric heaters to ensure heat is available on demand, a refitted shower room and a reconfigured lounge and kitchen area so that there is an enhanced light and airy feel to the main living area.

During the course of the improvements the current owners thoughtfully chose fittings to ensure the apartment is as economical as it could be, to help keep running costs as low as possible. These simple but thoughtful changes included fitting individual water heaters to each hot tap, filtered drinking water, LED lighting and a humidity-controlled extractor fan and a timed electric towel rail in the shower room. During the preparations for the project, the current owners received landlords permission to have cavity wall and underfloor insulation fitted but did not progress it.

It is also worth noting there is a built in mirror fronted wardrobe in the bedroom. In the kitchen the cream coloured units have real hardwood tops incorporating an Induction hob and a Halogen Oven plus there is a separate Bosch fridge freezer.

It is without doubt that we would recommend this retirement apartment for consideration.

ACCOMMODATION AS FOLLOWS..

COMMUNAL HALL

Access into the development and this flat is either via the main front door or a side entrance adjacent to car park area.
Both entrances have an intercom system, and the doors are opened remotely. If you enter via the main front door the hall runs alongside the communal lounge and onto the apartment, whereas if you were to enter via the car park the entrance door to the flat is the first door in front of the shared hall with the staircase.

ENTRANCE HALL

Within this hallway there is both a single and double storage cupboard which can prove to be essential space within an apartment and there are also three doors leading to each of the rooms.


LIVING ROOM 6.07 m x 5.13 m reducing to 4.1 m (19'10 x 16'9 > 13'5)


During the refurbishment the kitchen was combined within the main living area, this was to maximise space and give the room a much more spacious feel.

The fitted kitchen area still adjoins the original dining area of the room and consists of well-chosen cream coloured cabinets with contrasting dark wood worktops which have complimentary tiled splash backs and under pelmet lighting which can be controlled remotely.

Built within the units is a 1 and ½ bowl sink unit with mixer tap, a induction hob and a pull-out shelf with a halogen oven. There is also a space housing a freezer and freestanding fridge freezer. Please note, should your preference be to use conventional oven, this can be placed in the space currently housing the separate freezer.

Within the Kitchen area is vinyl flooring, this adjoins the newly laid carpet within the main living room. The living room, in addition to having a rear window, also has the lovely feature of uPVC double doors opening onto a patio that adjoins the communal gardens.


BEDROOM 4.03 m x 2.66 m (13'2 x 8'7)

As you can tell this is quite a decent sized room which could easily accommodate a large double or two single beds. There are two windows providing good natural light and a recessed wardrobe with mirror fronted doors and double hanging as well.

SHOWER ROOM 2.01 m x 1.64 m (6'6 x 5'4)

Recently fitted with a modern suite, this shower room features fully tiled walls, wood effect flooring and a three-piece white suite which consists of a push button WC, vanity unit with washbasin and a corner shower cubicle with a Triton electric shower.

As mentioned, there is a humidity-controlled extractor fan, a cupboard for storage and an individually timed heated towel rail which can also be operated manually by a control panel just outside in the hallway.


COMMUNAL AREAS

In addition to the reception hall, Albion Court provides a GUEST BEDROOM charged at £10 a night, a residents LAUNDRY ROOM where you can be allocated a personal time of use. In addition, there is a communal lounge with an adjoining kitchen area that is also positioned on the favoured west side and with a part glazed roof is a wonderfully bright space.


OUTSIDE

There are communal grounds surrounding the property, these provide both seating areas and designated parking for residents and their visitors.


LEASE DETAILS

The 125 Year Lease commenced on 23rd March 1989 and therefore has approx. 93 Years remaining.


SERVICE CHARGE

The budget for the coming year has given an annual charge of £2,408 this equates to a monthly charge of £200.67.

This charge covers such things as landscaping of the grounds, maintenance of the outside of the building and internal common areas, provision of the 24-hour care-call system and buildings insurance.



Council Tax
Basildon Council, Band C

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.
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