- Newly Built Town Centre Apartment
- Stunning Internal Styling With Split Level Accommodation
- Central Hallway Leading to Each Room
- One Bedroom with Built in Wardrobes
- Porcelain Tiled Shower Room with Double Shower
- 'T Shaped' Living Room and Kitchen/Diner with Vaulted Ceiling
- Windows Enjoying East, South and Westerly Aspects Plus Distant Views
- Kitchen With Quartz Worktops and Bosch Appliances to include Dishwasher
- Allocated Parking
- Internal Viewing Recommended
Over the years we have seen many one-bedroom apartments, but this one certainly ranks up there amongst the best.
Following the recent conversion of a town centre commercial building, Hawkley Court, a luxury development of one and two bedroomed homes was created.
This particular apartment occupies the preferred south side of the top floor and features some interesting design ideas including vaulted ceilings that add another dimension of style to the already generous living space.
Finished to a high standard, this meticulously presented home has been thoughtfully improved further, during occupation by the current owners.
It goes without saying, the layout has also been well planned. Positioned off the central hall, and away from the living area is the bedroom which sits directly adjacent to the shower room.
To the opposite end of the hall, via it's own door and down a single step is a simply unique T-shaped kitchen/dining/living space which features the vaulted ceiling with inset downlighters.
Within this living space, which combines a work, sitting and lounging zone, there are a combination of skylight windows and normal windows which take in a lovely view across part of Billericay while a central access gives open plan access to the kitchen/diner, a stylishly fitted room with matt grey units, white quartz tops and quality Bosch appliances.
If you're looking for a property such as this, we would certainly recommend this one for consideration.
ACCOMMODATION AS FOLLOWS..
A security entrance door with intercom system gives you access into the…
COMMUNAL ENTRANCE HALL
On the ground floor there are post boxes for each of the apartments and then a staircase with white painted turned balustrades rise to each floor. On the top floor there are two graphite grey composite entrance doors, one of which leads to this apartment.
HALLWAY
Inset LED down lighters give you that immediate modern feel and the grey wood effect vinyl flooring ensures practicality and enhances this apartment modern appearance.
Within this area is the hive thermostat, an entry phone system and radiator.
You will also notice a mirrored sliding pocket door, this gives an added dimension of space to the hall and in turn opens to the shower room while a panelled door opens to the bedroom and another leads on into the living area.
BEDROOM
Two skylight windows bring both style and natural light into this bedroom which has inset downlighters and wardrobes built within the recess.
SHOWER ROOM
The mirrored pocket door that gives access, ties in nicely with the both the polished chrome edging, the built-in mirror and adds another level of style to this porcelain tiled shower room with inset downlighters.
A well-planned white suite features a circular wash basin with wall mounted mixer tap, built-in mirror and storage drawer under, a wall hung WC with concealed system and a walk-in double width shower with a low-profile tray, a drench shower head, a separate hand attachment and a sturdy thick glass screen.
LIVING ROOM
We think it's fair to say, you don't see many rooms like this in a one bed apartment.
As you step into the living room you will notice 3 skylight windows and a side window.
These windows sit on the east, south and the west side of the building, so there's a good level of natural light and warmth afforded through the day.
The positioning of each window also helps to define zones currently used as working area for a home office, a small sitting area and a lounge with space for a corner sofa.
The grey vinyl wood effect flooring and inset LED downlighters continue into this living space and through to the adjoining split level kitchen/diner.
KITCHEN DINER
With an exceptional level of finish and space available, this kitchen/diner once again goes beyond what you would expect to find in a one-bedroom apartment.
Quartz worktops sit over grey matt cabinets and extend the full length of two sides of this kitchen giving a generous amount of workspace while incorporating a Frankie undercounter sink and mixer taps, this sits just under the side window and affords views over the south of Billericay.
Integrated within the cabinets is a Bosch washer dryer, dishwasher, fridge and freezer and a built-in Bosch electric oven with Bosch induction hob and cooker hood over.
To one side of the access into the kitchen is a built-in storage cupboard, this houses the electric boiler which serves the central heating for radiators and hot water system.
OUTSIDE
Positioned to the rear of the development is an allocated parking space.
Council Tax
Basildon Council, Band C
Ground Rent
£200.00 Yearly
Service Charge
£1,644.00 Yearly
Lease Length
121 Years
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.
