- Extended Four-Bedroom Home Offering Flexible Family Accommodation
- Over 1,500 Sq Ft Of Well-Planned And Adaptable Living Space
- Popular Modern Development Adjoining Mill Meadow Nature Reserve
- Footpath Access Through Mill Meadows To High Street And Station
- Generous Kitchen Diner With Adjoining Utility Room
- Bay-Fronted Living Room Plus Additional 2 Storey Rear Reception/Playroom
- Two Sets Of Patio Doors Opening Onto The Rear Garden
- Ground Floor WC, Entrance Porch And Welcoming Reception Hall
- First-Floor Study Ideal For Home Working Or Hobbies
- Driveway Parking and Integral Garage
Having been extended to one side, this four-bedroom home now offers highly versatile accommodation that can adapt and evolve as the needs of a growing family change over time.
Situated on a popular modern development adjoining Mill Meadow Nature Reserve, the property is ideally located just over the road from the footpath into Mill Meadows, which gives access upto to the High Street and Train Station. By road, both the High Street and station are approximately one mile away, which on foot is reported to be around a 20-25 minute walk.
In addition to four bedrooms, three of which are doubles, the first floor also benefits from a stylishly refitted en-suite shower room and a refitted family bathroom.
Both boast under floor heating and feature tasteful modern suites with well-chosen tiling, and LED backlit mirrors. It is also worth noting that all bedrooms have fitted storage.
The extended areas of the house significantly enhance the available living space.
Alongside a generous kitchen diner with an adjoining utility room, the property offers a living room with a bay window, a ground-floor WC, a useful entrance porch, and a welcoming reception hall.
In addition, there is an exceptionally versatile rear living space, currently used as a combined sitting room and playroom. This room features two sets of patio doors opening onto the garden, as well as a staircase leading to an additional first-floor room. Currently used as a home office, this extra first floor space could equally serve as a hobby room, studio, or children's den for sleepovers.
In total, the accommodation extends to over 1,500 sq ft, and given its unique layout and flexible living spaces, is undoubtedly a home well worthy of consideration.
ENTRANCE PORCH
Double external doors open from the driveway into this particularly useful space and with a radiator its ideal for storing shoes and coats as well as receiving parcel deliveries.
The entrance door then leads through into the main hallway.
HALLWAY
Wood-effect vinyl flooring provides a practical finish to this generously sized central thoroughfare, where stairs rise to the first floor with a useful cupboard beneath.
Doors open from here to each of the reception rooms, the kitchen diner, and the ground floor wc.
SEPARATE WC
Stylishly fitted with a modern white suite, this cloakroom comprises a push-button WC and a wash basin with mixer taps and storage beneath, complemented by a tiled splashback.
A front-facing window provides natural light, and a heated towel rail completes the finish.
LOUNGE
This front-facing living room enjoys natural light from both a side window and a front Bay window projection, adding character and an additional feeling of space.
A Portuguese limestone fire surround with an inset gas fire forms an attractive focal point and there is a handy recessed area.
REAR PLAYROOM / RECEPTION SPACE
A thoughtfully designed extension has created this fabulous family entertaining space, featuring two sets of patio doors opening onto the garden, there is access to an external covered area with heaters, that currently accommodates a pool table.
Wood-effect laminate flooring adds a further level of practicality to what will be a well-used room. To one corner you also have stairs that rise to a first-floor study or possibly a bedroom space for children's sleep overs!
FIRST FLOOR STUDY
With both front and rear windows, this first-floor room which can only be accessed via the ground floor playroom, enjoys excellent natural light.
The space comfortably accommodates two desks, allowing for a more separate and practical work-from-home environment.
Alternative uses could include a hobby room, children's den, video games room or even a pod cast social media studio space.
KITCHEN/DINER
Positioned at the rear of the house, this modern kitchen diner features a window and double doors with an adjoining vertical radiator sit by the natural dining table area, open onto the rear patio.
The tiled floor is complemented by light grey cabinetry, white worktops and inset spotlights to the ceiling.
Integrated appliances include an electric oven, hob with cooker hood over, and a dishwasher, all of which will remain.
A separate peninsula breakfast bar provides seating for four stools and space for an American-style fridge freezer.
A door leads through to the utility room.
UTILITY ROOM
The tiled flooring continues into the utility room, which is fitted with a range of matching base and wall cabinets and worktops.
There is a handy side door and space for a washing machine and tumble dryer. The wall-mounted Worcester gas boiler was, we are told, installed in 2017.
LANDING
The spacious feel to the landing is enhanced by a carpeted stairs and a glass-panelled staircase.
In addition, you have an airing cupboard and doors opening to all bedrooms and the family bathroom. There is also access to the loft space.
BEDROOM ONE
This generously sized main bedroom features a front-facing window, built-in mirror-fronted sliding wardrobes plus additional fitted furniture that incorporates a recess for a king-size bed.
A door leads through to the en-suite shower room.
EN-SUITE SHOWER ROOM
Stylishly re-fitted and fully tiled with under floor heating, this en-suite enjoys inset ceiling, spotlights, illuminated recessed display niches to help create a modern feel.
The suite includes a push-button WC with a neatly concealed cistern, a wash basin with mixer taps, storage beneath and a wall-mounted LED illuminated mirror, plus you have a large walk-in shower cubicle with an Aqualisa push-button controlled shower unit.
BEDROOM TWO
Located to the rear of the house, this second double bedroom benefits from built-in wardrobes with sliding doors.
BEDROOM THREE
Also positioned to the rear, this third bedroom also accommodates a double bed and has built-in wardrobes.
BEDROOM FOUR
Centrally located on the landing, this front-facing bedroom with fitted storage and hanging rails, has been utilised as an additional home office.
BATHROOM
Re-fitted in a similar style to the en-suite, this fully tiled bathroom with under floor heating features a modern white suite enhanced by recessed illuminated display niches and an LED-backed mirror.
The suite comprises a push-button WC, wash basin with mixer tap, panelled bath with mixer taps and a separate shower over. A built-in white gloss storage cupboard is positioned neatly in one corner.
OUTSIDE
FRONT
Set back from the road, the property benefits from a double-width driveway which to one side extends to being double length to one side and therefore provides parking for three vehicles.
The frontage is completed by established hedging along the front boundary and with a lawned area, creates a traditional feel.
REAR GARDEN
The rear garden begins with a paved patio extending across the full width of the house.
To the rear of the second reception room is a covered pergola with heating and lighting, currently covering the pool table area.
The remainder of the garden is laid with artificial lawn, while mature conifers to the rear provide a good degree of privacy. To one side of house a gate then leads through to the driveway.
Council Tax
Basildon Council, Band F
Notice
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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.
