Positioned just on the edge of town, a short 0.6 mile walk from the High Street and local schools, this four-bedroom detached home, originally built by Bellway Homes, has been extended on the ground floor to provide an additional reception space with a lantern roof and double doors to the garden.
Enjoying a southerly-facing garden, the living room, with two sets of double doors, is a bright and welcoming space. As well as the living room, you also have a separate playroom and a designated study/home office off the hallway while the L-shaped kitchen diner is a stylishly fitted space with integrated appliances for a sleek, smart finish, and form here, double doors open to the side of the house.
Upstairs, all four bedrooms are usable spaces, with the convenience of both an ensuite shower room, recently refitted, and a family bathroom.
As mentioned, this home sits on a popular modern development, convenient for the High Street station and local schools, and enjoys a part-walled garden. The house commands good road frontage with a separate detached garage.
Accommodation As Follows
HALLWAY
A generous, welcoming space with wood-effect flooring, giving guests and family a practical entrance.
Wood veneer doors open to the lounge, ground floor WC, kitchen diner and study.
LIVING ROOM 5.27m x 3.08m (17'3 x 10'1)
The wood-effect flooring extends into the living room, where two sets of double doors open onto the garden, creating a bright space that flows through to the playroom.
PLAYROOM / SEPARATE SITTING ROOM 2.83m x 2.62m (9'3 x 8'7)
Created by the extension, this room also has double doors opening onto the garden, matching wood-effect flooring, and a lantern roof to further enhance the light and airy feel.
STUDY 2.8m x 2.18m (9'2 x 7'1)
A generous amount of space has been designated to this study, which could easily accommodate home office equipment.
GROUND FLOOR WC
With a side window, the ground floor WC has a white suite comprising a wall-mounted wash basin and push-button WC.
KITCHEN DINER 4.38m x 3.93m (14'4 x 12'10)
L-shaped in design, this kitchen has a generous amount of base and wall cabinets and is stylish yet functional with plenty of room for a dining table and chairs.
There's a good range of integrated appliances including dishwasher, fridge freezer, washing machine and cooker, and thanks to the thoughtful design, there's a designated utility area and double doors opening to the side of the house.
LANDING
As with the hallway, the staircase area is of generous proportions, with a built-in airing cupboard and wood veneer doors opening to the bedrooms.
BEDROOM ONE 4.43m x 3.69m (14'6 x 12'1)
L-shaped in design with a rear-facing window, this main bedroom (although difficult to photograph) has a recessed area with a built-in, mirror-fronted wardrobe with space for drawer storage, and a door opening to the ensuite shower room.
ENSUITE SHOWER ROOM
Recently refitted, this fully tiled shower room comprises a corner shower cubicle with sliding doors, overhead shower and hand attachment, a vanity wash basin with drawers and an illuminated LED mirror, plus a push-button WC for the concealed system.
Completing the modern look are inset spotlights with sensor control and a chrome heated towel rail.
BEDROOM TWO 2.75m x 2.63m (9' x 8'7)
Overlooking the front of the house, this bedroom has plantation shutters and a built-in mirror-fronted wardrobe.
BEDROOM THREE 2.77m x 2.59m (9'1 x 8'6)
Another good-sized single room with a side window.
BEDROOM FOUR 2.49m x 2.46m (8'2 x 8')
As the measurements show, there's no notably small bedroom in this house, this one has a front-facing window and plantation shutters.
FAMILY BATHROOM
Another nice, modern space with part-tiled floor and walls, and a white suite comprising a panelled bath with mixer taps and hand attachment, push-button WC with concealed system, and a semi-pedestal wash basin with mixer taps.
There's also a side window, heated towel rail and inset spotlights to the ceiling.
OUTSIDE
FRONT
The house enjoys a commanding position within the development. In addition to shrub beds to the front, a brick wall extends around the garden boundary, flanked by hedging, and in turn leads onto the driveway and garage.
GARAGE 7.16m x 3.13m (23'5 x 10'3)
Larger than the average garage, this one has space for a car plus both ground level storage, and eaves storage.
REAR GARDEN
Enjoying a southerly aspect, this part-walled garden has lovely surroundings, with established shrub beds adding maturity to the space.
A paved patio area extends round to the side of the house and to the kitchen's double doors.
A rear gate leads to the driveway, with a door also opening to the garage.
Council Tax
Basildon Council, Band F
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.
