A rather lovely opportunity to acquire one of these much sought-after Two Bedroom 'Red-Multi' multi-coloured Stock brick houses, tucked away within the pretty brick-paved setting of Arundel Mews, forming part of the popular Arundel Heights' development in ever-sought after North Billericay.
The accommodation is very nicely presented and includes a Ground floor WC, generous Lounge/Diner with a contemporary 'Media wall', fitted Kitchen, two good-sized DOUBLE BEDROOMS, a stylish Bathroom and excellent storage. The front bedroom enjoys a pleasant outlook to the right of the greens of Stockbrook Manor Golf Course.
Perhaps the real trump card, however, is the 17ft x 8ft 4in (5.18m x 2.54m) Garage, which is accessed directly from the rear garden via a very handy courtesy door. Partially divided and already partly converted to provide a store area leading through to a gym, it offers bags of further potential. We imagine a home office, hobby room, teenage den, garden bar or summer room while retaining useful storage to the front. There is also also a pitched roof providing additional overhead storage.
Parking is another bonus, with a bay immediately in front of the garage, in addition to the parking in the front of the house.
The turning sits directly opposite the 250-acre Stock Brook Country Club, while Queens Park Neighbourhood Shopping Centre, including Aldi, is 'just down the road'. Buttsbury Primary School and Mayflower High School are also within the local catchment, and Billericay Mainline Station provides services to London Liverpool Street in around 35 minutes.
The Accommodation in more detail:
HALL
With attractive wood flooring extending into the Lounge/Diner.
GROUND FLOOR WC ROOM 5ft 10" x 2ft 7" (1.78m x 0.79m)
A modern cloakroom with front-facing window providing natural light, fitted with a white suite including wall-mounted white gloss vanity unit and topped off with feature 'Spanish tiles' effect vinyl flooring.
LOUNGE/DINER 15ft 3" x 12ft (4.65m x 3.66m)
A particularly generous reception room with ample space for a four-seater round dining table towards one end and a comfortable seating area towards the other, centred around a contemporary feature media wall incorporating a modern black tempered-glass, built-in electric fireplace.
An internal door provides access to a surprisingly large understairs storage cupboard, whilst the rear door opens directly onto the garden, where a pathway leads down to the rear courtesy entrance of the garage.
KITCHEN 9ft 10" x 6ft (3.00m x 1.83m)
Fitted with a range of light grey units complemented by 'Calacatta white marble' effect worktops and incorporating a grey composite sink, built-in black glass electric hob with multifunction oven below and extractor above, integrated fridge/freezer and space for washing machine.
One of the matching cupboards houses the modern Ideal Exclusive 2 combination boiler.
FIRST FLOOR LANDING
A full-height built-in cupboard, formerly the airing cupboard, provides excellent shelved storage, whilst a loft hatch gives easy access to the loft and further useful storage space.
There is also a particularly handy double power socket at the top of the stairs, with a further socket on the opposite wall.
BEDROOM ONE 12ft x 9ft 9" (3.66m x 2.97m)
A good-sized front-facing double bedroom with the measurements excluding a substantial door recess.
The room enjoys a pleasant outlook towards Stockbrook Manor Golf Course, visible to the right through the window.
BEDROOM TWO 9ft 5" x 8'7" (2.87m x 2.62m)
A further rear-facing double bedroom wiith the measurements excluding a useful walk-in wardrobe measuring 6'2" x 2'3" (1.88m x 0.69m), fitted with attractive on-trend panelled doors.
BATHROOM 6ft 7" x 5ft 10" (2.01m x 1.78m)
A stylish contemporary bathroom fitted with a white suite, attractive grey wall tiling and grey oak-effect laminate flooring.
There is a useful double cupboard beneath the wash basin, whilst the bath incorporates a Mira fixed showerhead together with a separate hand-held shower handset.
GARAGE 17ft x 8ft 4" (5.18m x 2.54m)
Now this is where the property gets particularly interesting!
Accessed directly from the rear garden via a very useful courtesy door, the garage offers considerably more potential than a conventional garage.
It is currently a work in progress, with a timber stud partition partially dividing the space into a front storage area and a rear gym.
The rear section has already been partly dry-lined and benefits from chest-height power sockets, ideal for a wall-mounted television or other equipment. Subject to the necessary works and any required consents, the space could potentially be transformed into an excellent Home Office, Garden Room, Hobby Room, Gym, Summer Den or even a Home Bar.
The existing up-and-over garage door remains in place and there is a pitched roof providing additional storage within the roof space. For someone looking to maximise the property's usable space, this is a seriously useful asset with plenty of scope to finish and adapt to suit individual requirements.
Externally, there is a further PARKING BAY immediately outside the garage, in addition to the parking available to the front of the house, providing excellent parking provision for a property of this size.
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.
