- 3 Bed Detached House near Brightside School on large corner plot
- Needs updating but this far outweighed by the great potential for side extension & Garage conversion
- Stunning, professionally landscaped 50ft x 40ft Rear Garden with Summerhouse
- No onward chain as the owners are emigrating to Australia!
- L-shaped Hall, Kitchen with 'Oak' units doors and drawer fronts, Lounge/Diner with Fireplace
- All three bedrooms are DOUBLES and the Bathroom is big too (big corner bath & double Vanity unit)
- Bedrooms 2 & 3 with TV ariel connections and Cat 5 network connections
- Convenient location literally just a 2 minute walk from the school, plus local shops also nearby
- 0.9 Mile to Billericay Railway Station (London Liverpool Street in 35 minutes)
- Keys held for an easy, no-hassle viewings. Please call the office!
Situated within the catchment area of the highly regarded Brightside School, this 3 Bedroom Detached House is in need of a little updating, but it occupies a generous corner plot with extensive scope for side extension and garage conversion, along with a lovely, landscaped Garden roughly 50ft x 40ft.
Inside, an L-shaped hallway leads to the Kitchen which has older shaker style units, although the doors are solid oak so could be painted and new worktops put on to transform it to a modern kitchen again.
Across the back is the Lounge/Diner featuring a large window and sliding patio doors that showcase the beautifully landscaped garden, and a brick fireplace. Plus of course the integral Garage could make an additional room and potentially a ground floor WC as well. (There's plenty of room on the side for a new garage or a side extension incorporating one).
Upstairs boasts three double bedrooms (bedrooms 2 & 3 with TV ariel sockets and CAT5 network cabling) and a generously sized bathroom and outside, the Garden has been professionally landscaped with beautiful Indian sandstone slabs with a very neat square central lawn, well stocked flower beds, Pergola and Summerhouse with electrics.
Cavity wall insulation was done in 2006, and the flat roof was re-done with a 'Top Seal GRP Fibreglass Roof' in 2013 - coming with a 25 year guarantee.
The property also offers considerable convenience as it is within walking distance of Brightside School (literally a 2 minute walk further up the road!), local shops and Billericay Mainline Station (London Liverpool Street in just 35 minutes).
Available with no onward chain due to the owners' relocation to Australia, this property represents an excellent opportunity for those seeking a spacious family home with significant potential in a sought-after area.
The Accommodation
HALLWAY
L-shaped with wood laminate flooring and a surprisingly large under stairs cupboard.
LOUNGE/DINER 22ft 7" x 11ft (6.88m x 3.35m)
Full width, this large living room enjoys a lovely outlook over the landscaped garden through the huge rear window in the lounge area and the wide set of sliding patio doors in the dining area.
Many years ago, the fireplace was converted for a Baxi Back Boiler. The back boiler has long since been disconnected, although the unit remains. The gas fire in front at the moment is fully working, and it would be fairly straightforward to remove it all in favour of re-creating the open fire or perhaps for a wood-burning stove.
KITCHEN 10ft x 8ft 4" (3.05m x 2.54m)
Oak Shaker style units incorporate a Gas Hob with an Extractor Hood above and built-in double Oven/Grill.
Spaces within the units house a washing machine, dishwasher, and full-height fridge/freezer and plenty of light comes through the large front-facing window and glazed side door.
Stairs from Hall to:
1ST FLOOR LANDING
The large window on the half landing throws lots of light over the stairwell.
Up on the landing is the large airing cupboard which now houses the Glow Worm Ultracom 38cxi Combination Boiler, with lots of room left over for shelving and even a hanging rail.
MASTER BEDROOM 12ft 2" x 11ft 10" (3.71m x 3.61m)
The front-facing window is noticeably wide, maximizing light.
BEDROOM TWO 12ft 6" x 10ft 1" (3.81m x 3.07m)
This rear-facing bedroom also has a particularly big window enjoying a pleasant outlook over the landscaped garden.
Along the far wall are fitted wardrobes with sliding doors.
BEDROOM THREE 10ft x 10ft (3.05m x 3.05m)
This perfectly square double bedroom also has a big and tall window, surveying the landscaped garden.
BATHROOM 10ft 4" x 6ft (3.15m x 1.83m)
An unusually large bathroom providing plenty of room for its corner bath with mixer tap and shower attachment, as well as a double-width vanity unit.
Again, continuing the large window theme, this also has a nice big window flooding in lots of natural light.
FRONT GROUNDS
The property enjoys a bold corner plot enabling a 2/3 car block-paved drive with plenty of grounds left over for lawn. This could be paved over for additional parking if required.
GARAGE 16ft x 8ft 1" (4.88m x 2.46m)
With a front up-and-over door, fluorescent strip light, and power sockets.
On the wall is the electrical consumer unit for the property and its 9ft (2.74m) ceiling height enables a very straightforward garage conversion if desired.
Access on one side through a lockable gate to:
GARDEN
Professionally landscaped. Beautiful.
The standout feature of the property along with its large corner plot.
'Fossil mint' Indian sandstone slabs (literally with occasional fossils) intermingled with white shingle provide the hard landscaping, patio areas, and pathways.
Natural sleepers retain raised, carefully thought-through planted beds. At the rear is a raised fishpond (with strong galvanized steel grids - perfect for inquisitive children and to stop hungry herons!)
SUMMERHOUSE 6ft 10" x 6ft 7" (2.08m x 2.01m)
With a separate consumer unit for the electrical supply for the summerhouse and the pond pump & filter. There is motion controlled LED lighting fitted in the summerhouse, and some lighting in the garden.
This would also make a perfect small home office as it would be very straightforward to insulate with Celotex and plasterboard over, and it comes with a DPM, roof, and upgraded cladding.
The garden area extends round to the side where there is a handy 8ft x 6ft (2.44m x 1.83m) SHED and of note, both the eucalyptus and silver birch trees were last trimmed in autumn 2023, having been very well maintained for decades.
Further notes:
The Garden design was by Sharon Worsell at SW Gardens & Design - https://www.facebook.com/swgardendesign
The garden upgrade was undertaken in 2021.
• Summerhouse - a 7' x 7' Corner Cabin from Carr Garden Buildings with upgraded 19mm cladding and 3"x2" framework and an EDPM rubber roof.
• Arbour is Gerlinde 8' x 8' Corner Arbour from Dunster House (has a 10 yr guarantee)
• Pond size - 4m long x 1.4m wide. The depth is 88cm, and the liner is a custom made butyl rubber box jointed liner. The pond contains 4500l of water and approx. 25 fish. The pond pump and skimmer remain under warranty until Apr 2026.
Council Tax
Basildon Council, Band D
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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