Situated on the popular Queens Park development to the north-west of Billericay, this substantially extended four-bedroom detached house offers considerably more accommodation than many of the original properties on this part of the estate.
Indeed, the extension has created something of a rarity here four properly proportioned double bedrooms, including a particularly impressive principal bedroom with its own newly refitted Ensuite.
The ground floor is equally generous, with three separate reception areas - two of them around the kitchen, while attractive wood-effect tiled flooring runs throughout the downstairs and incorporates/boasts wet underfloor heating. The Lounge has a feature Log Burner, a wide opening into the Dining Room and double doors to the garden, whilst the ground floor part of the extension provides an excellent third reception room.
Outside, the rear garden has been cleverly designed for maximum easy enjoyment, with a substantial glass balustraded deck beneath a glazed canopy (nearly all year round use!), a raised artificial lawn, covered barbecue area and excellent storage.
To the front is a good-sized driveway and Garage with an attached Store.
The house has also recently benefited from the addition of attractive contemporary composite cladding to the upper elevations, giving the exterior a very smart, modern finish.
The property is also very conveniently located, with Queens Park Shopping Centre including the newly opened Lidl literally around the corner, just a three-minute walk away.
Brightside Primary School is only half a mile, as is an entrance to the 40-acre Lake Meadows Park and for the Commuter, Billericay Station is approximately one mile away - roughly a 20-minute walk.
The Accommodation in more detail:
PORCH 5ft 6' x 4ft 1' (1.68m x 1.24m)
A particularly good-sized entrance porch with attractive wood-effect tiled flooring, which continues throughout the ground floor.
The tiles are laid over wet underfloor heating a particularly welcome feature during the colder months.
GROUND FLOOR WC 5ft 5' x 3ft 7' (1.65m x 1.09m)
Fitted with a white cloakroom suite and with a window providing natural light.
HALL
A welcoming entrance hall with the same attractive tiled flooring.
The understairs cupboard has an automatic light and a useful power socket.
LOUNGE 16ft 5' x 12ft 8' (5.00m x 3.86m)
A lovely-sized principal reception room, with a notably wide 8ft (2.44m) opening leading through to the Dining Area, creating an excellent sense of space.
Wide double doors open directly onto the rear garden and covered decking, whilst the focal point of the room is the attractive Fireplace housing a wood-burning stove.
DINING ROOM 10ft 6' x 10ft 5' (3.20m x 3.18m)
A really good-sized dining area with a door leading through to the kitchen and a wide opening on the opposite side leading into the extension.
FAMILY ROOM 13ft 8' x 10ft (4.17m x 3.05m)
A particularly useful third full-sized reception room, with a large window overlooking the rear garden.
An excellent additional space for a family room, playroom, home office or similar.
KITCHEN 12ft 1' x 10ft 10' (3.68m x 3.30m)
Fitted with a range of grey kitchen units beneath sparkling, chunky white quartz-effect worktops and incorporating a 1.5 bowl ceramic sink, integrated Dishwasher and a Lofra Professional 70cm 'Up&Down' Double Oven, Dual-Fuel Range Cooker.
There is also approximately 3ft (0.91m) of space for the sellers' large American-style fridge/freezer, whilst cleverly concealed within one of the matching units is the Worcester Greenstar 30 CDI boiler.
Doorway through to:
UTILITY ROOM 6ft 6' narrowing to 5ft x 3ft 9' (1.98m > 1.52m x 1.14m)
Fitted with a matching quartz-effect worktop, with space beneath for the washing machine, and useful cupboards and shelving above.
A glazed rear door conveniently leads out to the covered bin-storage area.
Stairs from Hall to:
FIRST FLOOR LANDING
A long landing providing access to all four bedrooms and the family bathroom with a side-facing window flooding the space with natural light.
A pull-down loft hatch gives easy access to the loft via a fitted ladder.
MASTER BEDROOM 12ft x 12ft (3.66m x 3.66m)
A perfectly square, fine-sized double bedroom, with the stated measurements excluding a useful recess (where some of the fitted wardrobes are built into).
The room enjoys a notably private outlook over the rear garden.
Pocket door through to:
EN SUITE 7ft x 4ft 5' (2.13m x 1.35m)
Beautifully refitted and very stylish, with a wide, light-grey Vanity unit, LED mirror and matching bathroom cabinet above.
A feature Geberit 'monolith' glass and aluminium 'module' houses the concealed cistern and wall-hung WC.
There is also a 4ft 4' x 2ft 4' (1300mm x 710mm) Walk-in Shower, fitted with a Mira Platinum digital shower and wireless remote Controller in black and chrome, controlling both the fixed rounded showerhead and separate handset.
White and grey gloss marble-effect tiling and a chrome heated towel rail complete a very smart and contemporary finish.
BEDROOM TWO 13ft 9' x 10ft (4.19m x 3.05m)
Another lovely big double bedroom, enjoying a dual aspect with windows overlooking the front and side, making this a particularly light and airy room.
BEDROOM THREE 11ft 1' x 8ft 1' (3.38m x 2.46m)
A further double bedroom with a rear-facing aspect.
BEDROOM FOUR 11ft 9' x 8ft 1' (3.58m x 2.46m)
Yet another genuine double bedroom, particularly bright thanks to its twin front-facing windows.
BATHROOM 9ft 5' narrowing to 5ft x 9ft 1' max (2.87m > 1.52m x 2.77m max)
Over the bath is both a ceiling-mounted rainfall showerhead and separate handset, like the Ensuite, again controlled by a Mira Platinum digital shower with wireless remote controller in black and chrome.
There is plenty of natural light, together with a useful shaver/USB socket.
GARDEN
Double doors from the lounge open onto a substantial covered decking area, creating a wonderful outdoor entertaining space that can be enjoyed for much of the year.
COVERED DECKING 14ft 5' x 10ft (4.39m x 3.05m)
A particularly attractive feature, with a modern frameless, base-channel glass balustrade system installed around the raised timber decking beneath a glazed roof canopy.
There is an electric heater and wiring for the current wall-mounted television, making this a genuinely usable outdoor area rather than simply a covered patio.
The decking continues as a pathway around the side of the house, where there is a multi-bay wooden wheelie-bin store, configured as a quadruple-bay hide with twin sets of double doors and lifting lids. Adjacent is a further purpose-built wooden log store.
The decking also extends in the opposite direction to a covered barbecue area, beyond which is the large lean-to shed and side gate providing convenient access back to the front driveway.
LEAN-TO SHED 8ft 9' x 4ft 10' (2.67m x 1.47m)
A robustly built store with two windows, a door and strip lighting. Power is available from the adjoining garage, with the current owners running a cable through the wall.
With Celotex insulation between the timber framing and internal dry lining, this could potentially be transformed into a very useful outside studio or home office.
From the decking, steps lead up to the raised artificial lawn, enclosed by a mixture of very high brick walls and well-maintained fencing.
There is also a useful outside tap and external lighting.
Looking back towards the house, the recently installed, highly attractive composite black cladding to the upper elevations is particularly striking, giving the property a smart and contemporary external finish.
FRONT STORAGE
Built onto the front of the house is an excellent additional storage area measuring 13ft 1' x 2ft 6' (3.99m x 0.76m).
GARAGE 16ft 10' x 8ft 3' (5.13m x 2.51m)
With a remote-controlled sectional garage door, power and lighting, together with a pitched roof providing useful additional storage space within the rafters.
SOLAR PANELS
The property also benefits from a fully owned array of 15 Bosch solar panels, installed approximately seven years ago, these generating free electricity for the home, with surplus energy being fed back into the National Grid and generating an income through the owners' Octopus export arrangement - evidently this has typically generated around £700 £800 per year in payments, in addition to helping reduce their electricity bills.
Council Tax
Basildon Council, Band E
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.
