This redecorated 3 Bedroom Semi with a 2-Car Front Drive and rear Garage, offers excellent potential with planning passed for a program of works to turn it into a 4 Bed Semi.
As it is now, the spacious 24ft dual-aspect Lounge/Diner features a boarded fireplace which could be re-opened, and flows into a practical Conservatory that opens onto a generous 77ft Garden with garage accessed via the rear service road.
The dated but clean and functional kitchen has a built in Oven and Hob, the bright landing is flooded with natural light, and three good-sized bedrooms include a 13ft Master Bedroom, all served by the existing Shower room and separate WC which could be easily combined to create a larger family Bathroom.
With exciting planning permission already secured for a Rear Extension, Front Porch with ground-floor WC, and Loft Conversion for an impressive Master Suite, all the groundwork is done and ready for you to bring these transformative plans to life.
LOCATION
The property also enjoys all the conveniences of a suburban location with added countryside, as the property is situated in very pleasant cul-de-sac just 1 mile from the Station (London Liverpool Street in 35 minutes), yet with a public footpath around the corner taking you out to woodland and countryside - perfect for families or dog walking.
The top end of Cherry Gardens adjoins the extensive grounds of Hannakins Farm Community Centre, with its vast array of clubs and numerous pitches (football, cricket, etc) and thirsty/crafty dogwalkers may like to take advantage of its licenced bar, which has an outside sitting area and is open Tuesday -Sunday evenings and Weekend afternoons!
0.5 mile away is the highly regarded Brightside Primary School and the neighbourhood shops including a handy Sainsburys 'Local' are just a bit further at 0.6 mile.
The Property and its accommodation in more detail
UPVC entrance door through to:
HALLWAY
A good size Hall with a cupboard on the right as you enter and attractive 'Grey Oak' flooring.
There's also a handy understairs cupboard for additional storage.
LOUNGE/DINER 24ft 5" x 12ft 5" narrowing to 9ft 3" (7.44m x 3.78m > 2.82m).
An excellent size dual aspect living room with a large front window, a Fireplace (currently boarded up) and another large window, this one to the rear and with an adjacent door opening out to the conservatory.
CONSERVATORY 11ft 2" x 8ft 9" (3.40m x 2.67m).
Dated but very usable, dry, waterproof and with Grey Oak effect vinyl flooring.
KITCHEN 10ft 6" x 9ft (3.20m x 2.74m).
Dated but very clean and functional and with a built-in electric Hob with Extractor above, built in Double Oven and Grill and recesses for a washing machine, dishwasher and fridge/freezer.
An external door opens to reveal a side recessed storm porch and then the side path giving side access to the garden.
Staircase from hallway to:
1st FLOOR LANDING
A very large side facing window throws lots of light across the stairwell and over the landing, making it particularly light and bright.
MASTER BEDROOM 13ft 2" x 11ft 3" (4.01m x 3.43m)
(The measurements exclude the door recess)
The 8ft (2.44m) wide front facing window maximises light.
BEDROOM TWO 10ft 9" x 10ft 6" (3.28m x 3.20m)
Another good size double bedroom and again with a notably wide (8ft) rear facing window.
BEDROOM THREE 9ft 5" x 7ft 1" (2.87m x 2.16m)
A nice size 3rd bedroom, presently used as a spacious study and with attractive grey effect vinyl flooring, inset downlighting and a front facing window.
BATHROOM WITH SEPARATE ADJOINING WC ROOM
BATHROOM 7ft 5" x 4ft 10" (2.26m x 1.47m)
Fitted out as a shower room with a large 1650mm x 660mm walk in Shower, along with a white gloss vanity basin.
A large rear facing window provides plenty of natural light and the built-in cupboard houses the hot water cylinder.
SEPARATE WC ROOM 4ft 8" x 2ft 8" (1.42m x 0.81m)
With a close coupled WC and window for natural light.
Of note, if the two rooms were opened into one, the newly created larger bathroom would measure 8ft x 7ft 6" (2.44m x 2.29m).
EXTERIOR
The garden is some 77ft (23m) in length and hides a Garage at the end, accessed via the rear service road. There's also a rear gate next to the garage.
With the two car front drive, there's probably more mileage in converting the garage into a home bar or office, etc.
POTENTIAL
Looking back at next door, we see they have successfully done a loft conversion and in fact here, the current owners have also had plans passed for a large Rear Extension to create the on-trend open plan rear Kitchen/Dining/Family Room, a front Porch to create a porch with a ground floor WC Room, and a Loft Conversion to create an impressive Top Floor Master Bedrooms.
This was on the brink of being started but the Owners have had an exciting opportunity to buy something else which they are going for, so the advantage of all the pre-plans being drawn up could be yours to fulfil!
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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