Set in a sought-after location with the well-regarded Brightside Primary School literally just up the road (3 minute walk), Billericay Mainline Station only 0.8 mile away, local shops including a Sainsbury's Local just a short 8 minute stroll and open countryside a 5 minute walk away, this substantial Four Bedroom (all double bedrooms) Detached home combines generous family accommodation and a very large Garage, with everyday convenience.
The property offers four genuinely spacious double bedrooms, including an impressive principal bedroom with a modern Ensuite Shower Room, together with a wide Entrance Hall, a large Lounge, separate Dining Room, Conservatory, separate Utility Room and a stylish ground floor WC Room.
The shaker-style kitchen remains well-appointed although also offers excellent potential to create a larger Kitchen/Breakfast Room, if opened up with the separate Utility Room next to it.
Outside, the rear garden extends to approximately 51ft x 39ft, providing a great blank canvas for families and keen gardeners alike, while the 17ft x 15ft integral garage adds further practicality.
A large home that offers exceptional space both inside and out, with scope to personalise over time.
The Accommodation in more detail:
PORCH 4ft 2' x 3ft 2' (1.27m x 0.97m)
With a secondary main entrance door through to:
HALLWAY
Approximately 15ft long (4.57m) and opening out wide at the end, this feels a notably spacious hall and features Karndean flooring.
GROUND FLOOR WC 7ft 7' x 3ft (2.31m x 0.91m)
Re-fitted with a stylish modern suite comprising a grey gloss wall-hung vanity unit and matching back-to-wall WC.
Attractive grey tiling to the walls and floor is complemented by a chrome towel radiator, and there is natural light from the side-facing window.
LOUNGE 18ft 6' x 11ft 8' (5.64m x 3.56m)
The focal point is the Portuguese Limestone Fireplace at the far end (with an inset gas fire), and plenty of light flows in through the wide rear bay window and the double doors to the conservatory.
Please note the recess to the right of the fireplace. This measures 5ft x 2ft 8' (1.52m x 0.81m) and 'around the corner' is a 5ft 6' (1.68m) high door, opening to reveal the understairs storage cupboard.
The grey oak laminate flooring extends through to the adjacent dining room via a set of glazed double doors.
DINING ROOM 11ft 7' x 11ft 5' (3.53m x 3.48m)
A really good-sized dining room with plenty of space for the sellers' six-seater table, as well as a sideboard and other furniture.
The large rear window receives plenty of borrowed natural light from the conservatory.
CONSERVATORY 16ft 3' x 8ft 3' (4.95m x 2.51m)
With power sockets, lighting, and a door opening out onto the patio.
KITCHEN/BREAKFAST ROOM 13ft 8' x 9ft 10' (4.17m x 3.00m)
Fitted with a range of timeless shaker-style units topped with granite-effect worktops, together with a handy two-seater peninsula breakfast bar.
There is a built-in Gas Hob beneath a Canopied Extractor Hood, a built-in NEFF Double Oven/Grill, an Integrated Dishwasher, and an Integrated under-counter Fridge (with the freezer located in the Utility Room).
UTILITY ROOM 9ft 10' x 5ft 2' (3m x 1.57m)
Fitted kitchen units run along the right-hand wall, with spaces beneath for the washing machine, tumble dryer, and freezer.
There is also a handy second sink and a side door leading to the side passage.
Straight staircase from Hall to:
FIRST FLOOR LANDING 20ft 6' max x 8ft 4' max (6.25m max x 2.54m max)
Surprisingly spacious and well lit, courtesy of its side-facing window.
At the far end is the built-in airing cupboard housing the hot water cylinder.
MASTER BEDROOM 15ft 4' x 14ft 2' (4.67m x 4.32m)
A sumptuous principal bedroom, with the 8ft (2.44m) wide window flooding the room with light and providing a pleasant outlook.
ENSUITE SHOWER ROOM 9ft 8' (into the shower cubicle), narrowing to 6ft 9' x 5ft 1' (2.95m > 2.06m x 1.55m)
A stylish and modern shower room, fully tiled with on-trend Calacatta White marble-effect tiles.
With a grey gloss wall-hung vanity unit, close-coupled WC, and a shower enclosure with both a rain shower head and a separate handset.
Nearly 4ft wide (1.22m), the large side-facing window streams in lots of natural light. Also note the handy toothbrush/shaver socket.
BEDROOM TWO 15ft x 11ft (4.57m x 3.35m)
Another lovely-sized double bedroom with a large rear-facing window maximising natural light.
BEDROOM THREE 12ft x 11ft (3.66m x 3.35m)
Yet another lovely-sized double bedroom, this one front facing.
BEDROOM FOUR 12ft 10' x 8ft 10' max (3.91m x 2.69m max)
As you can see from the photograph, even the fourth bedroom is a double. This one is also front facing.
BATHROOM 9ft x 6ft (2.74m x 1.83m)
Bathed in natural light from two windows and fitted with a white bathroom suite, including a freestanding vanity unit.
INTEGRAL GARAGE 17ft 2' long x 16ft, narrowing to 14ft 9' (5.23m x 4.88m > 4.50m)
A very neat and tidy garage with a remote-controlled roller door, a useful lockable side courtesy door, and housing a modern electrical consumer unit together with the Vaillant Thermo Compact boiler.
REAR GARDEN 51ft max x 39ft (15.5m x 11.9m)
A blank canvas of a garden featuring access on both sides of the main house via gates, one side being slightly wider than the other.
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.
