- 2000 sqft Family Home With 60' Rear Garden
- Four Double Bedrooms With Refitted En-Suite Shower and Bathroom
- Spacious Reception Hall and High Ceilings Throughout The Ground Floor
- Three Reception Rooms and Conservatory
- Refitted 'Huttons Kitchen' and Utility Room
- Replacement Valliant Gas Boiler
- uPVC Double Glazed Windows
- Attached Double Garage
- Plenty of Scope for Extensions (STPC)
- Buttsbury and Mayflower School Area
Originally built as an ‘Ashton', the largest design of home on the Arundel Heights development, this substantial home with three reception rooms and an attached double garage occupies a lovely wide plot with a 60' garden and provides you with an impressive 2000sqft of accommodation.
It's worth noting the overall feeling of spaciousness of the ground floor is enhanced further by lovely 2.5m (8'2) ceiling heights that run through out each of the three reception rooms and conservatory while the hallway with its open stairwell rising to the first floor, ensures the spacious feel continues throughout.
Each of the four bedrooms are double rooms with both the main and second being exceptionally large. There is also the possibility to divide the current extra-large en-suite shower room into 2 shower rooms which would then in turn provide the second bedroom with its own en-suite.
As a point of interest, other properties of the same design on this development that have an adjoining double garage like this one, are regularly being extended over to increase the ground and first floors even further. In addition, the wide plot and layout of accommodation at this house would also blend well in being extended across the entire rear of the house.
If redesigning a home to create open plan living is your preference, the layout of ground floor rooms could be reconfigured to provide you with a front to back kitchen/diner/day room to one side of the hall while still retaining the separate study and a generous lounge that leads onto the 60' garden.
Arundel Heights is a sought-after estate to the much-favoured north side of Billericay and right opposite Stock Brook Manor Country Club with its top leisure facilities and golf course.
If education is a high priority, then you may be interested to know the property falls within catchment for the highly regarded Buttsbury & Mayflower Schools - Mayflower High School recently just being awarded an 'Outstanding' school by OFSTED.
For the commuter, the station is a 25 minute walk and there are bus stops in the immediate vicinity taking you to the Station, itself on the London Liverpool Street line and accessing the City in just 35 minutes.
ACCOMMODATION AS FOLLOWS..
HALLWAY
This well-proportioned reception hall gives you ample space to meet, greet and store your everyday items. The stairs with an open stairwell and storage under, rise up to the first floor and panel doors give you access into each of the ground floor reception rooms plus the downstairs loo.
CLOAKROOM
With stylishly tiled walls and floor, the modern white push button wc and wall mounted hand basin sits well within the room.
DINING ROOM 3.62m x 2.72m (11'10 x 8'11)
This front facing reception room, adjoins the kitchen and although originally designed to be a dining room and therefore has space for a large dining table, this room is now used as a second sitting room.
STUDY 2.9m x 1.78m (9'6 x 5'10)
This front facing study, gives you the room needed for essential office furniture as well having a window with a view.
KITCHEN/DINER 3.92m x 3.92m (12'10 x 12'10)
Positioned to the rear of the house and with 2 windows looking onto the garden, this refitted kitchen with a tiled floor and Oak fronted cabinets by ‘Hutton Kitchens' has the space needed for a dining table to make it the place where families can work, rest and play.
The smart looking Oak fronted units are topped by a dark granite top and upstands which incorporates the undercounter sink unit with mixer taps and has an integrated Siemens dishwasher sitting beneath. In addition, there is space for a fridge freezer.
From here you have a door into the utility room.
UTILITY ROOM 2.54m x 1.5m (8'4 x 4'11)
This utility room has matching units and a roll edge worktop with a stainless-steel sink unit. There is a large storage cupboard and spaces for washing machine and tumble dryer plus a door opening onto the garden.
LOUNGE 5.91m x 4.04m (19'1 x 13'3)
This is the room where you really notice the extra ceiling height that the ground floor of this house enjoys.
Generous dimensions and side double doors to the patio, give you a good choice of layout to this room, and with a lounge of this size it is the perfect environment for a large flat screen TV!
In addition, there is a feature fire surround with an inset gas fire giving you that focal point, while double doors to one end, open to the conservatory.
CONSERVATORY 3.65m x 3.3m (12' x 10'10)
Giving you another place to sit and unwind, this uPVC conservatory with a brick base and vaulted ceiling has double doors opening onto the patio.
LANDING
The first-floor landing gives you access to each of the four bedrooms, the bathroom and the loft, plus with the open stairwell, there is a lovely spacious feeling too.
BEDROOM ONE 4.97m x 3.93m (16'4 x 12'11)
Positioned to the rear of the house, this bedroom looks onto the garden and as you can tell, has exceptional dimensions meaning you will have various options as to how to arrange the room.
A door off from the side leads into the en-suite shower room.
EN-SUITE SHOWER ROOM
Originally designed with a bath, the current owners chose to refit this room so that now in addition to the vanity unit with wash basin and a pushbutton WC, there is an exceptionally large walk-in shower cubicle with glass screen and a thermostatically controlled shower with drench head and hand attachment.
Stylishly tiled floor and walls, inset spotlights and a chrome heated towel rail complete the modern look.
BEDROOM TWO 4.30m x 3.65m (14'1 x 12')
Also positioned to the rear of the property, this second bedroom is again, particularly generous in size and has views onto the garden.
BEDROOM THREE 3.23m x 2.72m (10'7 x 8'11)
The third double bedroom has a front facing window and adequate space for wardrobes and dressing table.
BEDROOM FOUR 3m x 2.62m (9'10 x 8'7)
Another double bedroom! This one is again positioned to the front of the house and is big enough to give you options on both use and layout.
BATHROOM
Just like the en-suite and downstairs wc, this is again refitted and has well-chosen tiling to walls and floor plus a quality white suite which consists of a pushbutton WC, a vanity unit with wash basin and a panel enclosed bath with mixer taps, shower screen and shower unit.
OUTSIDE
FRONT
The property enjoys a good wide frontage which incorporates lawn and shrub beds as well as a double width drive, which provides access to the attached double garage. To one side is also gated pedestrian access to the rear garden.
DOUBLE GARAGE 5.22m x 5.11m (17'1 x 16'9)
Two up and over doors provide access into this garage which has power and light connected, eaves storage and a glazed and door opening onto the garden.
To one corner you will see the relocated and replaced Vaillant boiler.
REAR GARDEN
Measuring approximately 60' in depth the garden is equally impressive in width and commences with a paved patio area on the rear of the house with the remainder, being mainly lawn with established vegetation giving a good degree of privacy.
To the rear left corner is another paved area which would be the natural space for a cabin.
Council Tax
Basildon Council, Band G
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.
