- One Of The Best Presented Two-Bed Homes At This Price Point
- Stylish Hallway Setting The Tone From The Moment You Enter
- Bi-Fold Doors From Lounge Opening Onto Rear Garden
- Grey Gloss Kitchen with Integrated Oven, Hob, Washing Machine and Fridge/Freezer
- Glass Panel Balustrade & Wood Newel Post To Landing
- Two Good Sized Bedrooms
- Fully Tiled Shower Room With Low-Profile Tray & Drench-Head Shower
- Combi Boiler & Gas Radiator Heating
- Single Garage Plus Designated Parking Space
- Just 0.7 Miles / 15-Minute Walk To Billericay Train Station
As far as two-bedroom houses go, this will be one of the best-presented homes you will find at this price point.
An interesting and well-considered design ensures that both bedrooms are generous in size and versatile in their use, with the second being of ample proportions to comfortably accommodate a home office setup and a sofa bed for guests, an unusual and very practical bonus at this level.
The newly fitted shower room on the first floor, with sensor lighting, is fully tiled and features a white suite incorporating a low-profile shower tray and a drench-head shower.
The full refurbishment has resulted in smooth ceilings with inset spotlights running throughout the entire home, with vinyl flooring extending across the whole of the ground floor including the kitchen with integrated appliances and the lounge with bi-fold doors opening onto the rear garden. The overall finish is impressive and consistent from room to room.
Further points of note include gas radiator heating with a new combi boiler and a single garage with a designated parking space, both in the adjacent block.
Positioned at the top of a cul-de-sac within Queens Park, the property is just a short walk from the shopping centre and the new Aldi supermarket, with pedestrian paths leading through to Lake Meadows, the train station is just 0.7 miles, approximately a 15-minute walk away.
HALLWAY
Setting the tone immediately, this stylish hallway features a uPVC entrance door, smooth ceilings with inset spotlights and vinyl flooring a practical and visually impressive introduction to what lies beyond.
The stairs rise centrally to the first floor, with wood-panel doors opening to both the kitchen and the lounge.
LOUNGE 4.93m x 3.08m (16'2 x 10'1)
Wood-effect vinyl flooring continues through into this well-proportioned lounge, which features a large walk-in storage cupboard, a dedicated recess for a TV and sound bar, and bi-fold doors that open directly onto the rear garden.
The current owner also makes excellent use of the space by incorporating a dining table and chairs, demonstrating just how versatile this room really is.
KITCHEN 3.91m x 1.74m (12'10 x 5'8)
Another rear-facing room, and a tastefully finished one at that.
Stylish grey gloss-fronted cabinets with a well-chosen slate-style slimline laminate worktop and metro brick-bond tiled splashback combine to create a very sleek and cohesive look.
Built within the kitchen is a Bosch electric oven, electric hob with cooker hood, integrated fridge freezer and washing machine, clean lines and everything neatly in its place.
LANDING
A turned newel post and handrail complement the glass panel balustrade, whilst smooth ceilings with inset spotlights continue the contemporary feel that runs consistently throughout this home.
Loft access is available and here you will find the replacement combi boiler.
Wood-panel doors open to a store cupboard, both bedrooms and the shower room.
BEDROOM ONE 3.33m x 2.73m (10'11 x 8'11)
This good-sized principal bedroom continues the theme with smooth ceilings, inset spotlights and a rear-facing window.
BEDROOM TWO 4.01m x 2.09m (13'2 x 6'10)
Likely to be larger than many second bedrooms you will encounter at this price point, this is a genuinely versatile room.
With a rear-facing window, radiator and a built-in wardrobe with matching panel door, it works equally well as a double bedroom, and if used as a home office, it could accommodate both a desk and a sofa bed for guests.
SHOWER ROOM
Fully tiled and very well finished, this shower room features a white suite comprising a push-button WC, a wall-mounted vanity unit with mixer taps and LED mirror, and a walk-in shower with a low-profile tray and drench-head shower unit.
A heated towel rail and a smooth ceiling with sensor-activated inset spotlights complete this well-finished room.
OUTSIDE
FRONT
Steps lead up to the uPVC front door, with a useful external store cupboard to the left.
To the right of the building, a gated entrance provides access to the garage and parking area.
GARAGE
Situated in the adjacent block of garages, the property benefits from a single garage with an up-and-over door plus a designated parking space on the opposite side.
Being the last garage in the block, it is considered the most conveniently positioned space available where parking another car would not impact any other users.
REAR GARDEN
Commencing with a patio area, the remainder of this garden with a south/westerly aspect is lawn with a raised sleeper-enclosed bed to the rear boundary.
On our visits to the property during the afternoon, the garden has benefitted from a good degree of sunshine, a welcomed feature for any outdoor entertainment spaces.
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.
