Situated on the ever-popular and incredibly convenient Stockfield Manor development, this impressive Five Bedroom Detached Family Home with a Double Garage, was originally built by Laing Homes and has since been thoughtfully extended to provide spacious and versatile accommodation arranged over three floors.
Perfectly placed for modern family life, the property is just a six-minute walk from Billericay Railway Station (London Liverpool Street in 35 minutes) and seven minutes from the High Street, with both Norsey Woods and Lake Meadows Park also within easy reach.
Inside, there is a lovely big Lounge, separate Dining room, additional Study and an extended Kitchen/Breakfast Room with a fabulous vaulted ceiling and twin skylights.
Upstairs, four well-proportioned 1st Floor bedrooms are complemented by a particularly impressive top-floor 5th Bedroom measuring 25ft x 15ft, offering enormous flexibility as a luxurious principal suite or potentially two further bedrooms - a substantial, adaptable space.
Outside, the neatly landscaped south-west facing Garden provides a lovely setting for relaxing and entertaining, whilst the double garage adds further practicality.
The property also falls within the catchment for the highly regarded Buttsbury and Mayflower Schools.
All in all, a superbly positioned and particularly versatile family home, with considerably more accommodation and potential than first meets the eye.
The Accommodation in more detail:
ENTRANCE HALL 12ft 3" x 7ft 4" (3.73m x 2.24m), narrowing to 6ft 4" (1.93m)
A particularly welcoming entrance hall with attractive Karndean textured wood-effect flooring, which continues throughout the ground floor.
There is also a useful understairs storage cupboard, providing excellent additional storage.
GROUND FLOOR CLOAKROOM 5ft 3" x 2ft 10" (1.60m x 0.86m)
A stylishly refitted cloakroom with a side-facing window providing natural light, a back-to-wall WC and contemporary freestanding vanity unit with white glass basin.
LOUNGE 15ft 8" x 15ft 6" (4.78m x 4.72m)
A spacious and almost square living room, with plenty of room for a variety of furniture arrangements.
French doors, flanked by accompanying windows, open directly onto the rear garden, allowing plenty of natural light to flood the room and making the most of its desirable south-west facing aspect.
DINING ROOM 11ft 7" x 9ft 4" (3.53m x 2.84m)
A separate, front-facing reception room, currently put to excellent use as a children's playroom, but equally suited to its original purpose as a formal dining room.
STUDY 9ft 6" x 8ft 6" (2.90m x 2.59m)
An additional and particularly useful ground floor room, ideal as a home office, study or hobby room.
KITCHEN/BREAKFAST ROOM 23ft 7" x 9ft (7.19m x 2.74m) - widening to 9ft 9" (2.97m) in the breakfast area.
A superb extended kitchen/breakfast room, fitted with an attractive range of white Shaker-style units, complemented by black granite work surfaces.
The comprehensive range of appliances includes a NEFF five-ring gas hob with matching extractor, built-in double oven and grill, integrated fridge, freezer, washing machine and dishwasher.
A two-seater peninsula provides a natural division between the kitchen and dining areas, with the latter enjoying a particularly impressive vaulted ceiling reaching approximately 10ft, incorporating twin skylights. Together with a large rear window and French doors opening onto the garden, this creates a wonderfully light and airy space.
A further bank of freestanding triple storage cupboards provides excellent additional storage.
FIRST FLOOR LANDING
With a useful airing cupboard, now freed up following the installation of a modern combination boiler, providing excellent full-height storage.
MASTER BEDROOM 12ft 4" x 9ft (3.76m x 2.74m)
A good-sized rear-facing principal bedroom, with two substantial built-in wardrobes, which are excluded from the measurements, together with its own en-suite shower room.
EN-SUITE SHOWER ROOM 9ft 3" (2.82m) x 5ft 4" (1.63m)
A particularly spacious en-suite, fitted with a large shower enclosure, WC and wash basin, with a side-facing window providing natural light.
BEDROOM TWO 12ft 6" x 8ft 6" (3.81m x 2.59m)
A generous double bedroom, with a large built-in double wardrobe, excluded from the measurements.
BEDROOM THREE 11ft x 9ft 3" (3.35m x 2.82m)
Another well-proportioned double bedroom, positioned to the front of the property and featuring a large built-in double wardrobe.
BEDROOM FOUR 10ft 5" x 7ft 8" (3.18m x 2.34m)
A good-sized single bedroom, overlooking the rear garden, with a useful recessed area providing an ideal space for wardrobe storage.
FAMILY BATHROOM 9ft x 5ft 3" (2.74m x 1.60m)
A good-sized family bathroom, fitted with a panelled bath with shower attachment over, WC, wash basin and a tall chrome heated towel radiator.
SECOND FLOOR 'BONUS LOFT ROOM' 25ft x 15ft (7.62m x 4.57m)
What a fabulous space!
Accessed via stairs from a lobby off the first-floor landing, this enormous top-floor room is currently used as a twin bedroom, but offers enormous scope to suit a variety of requirements.
With windows at either end providing natural light, there is ample space to create a luxurious principal bedroom suite incorporating an en-suite bathroom and dressing area, or alternatively to divide the space into two separate double bedrooms, potentially with a central shower room.
There are also two useful eaves storage cupboards and access to the loft space.
REAR GARDEN Approximately 31ft x 32ft (9.45m x 9.75m)
A beautifully landscaped and particularly low-maintenance rear garden, enjoying a desirable south-west facing aspect.
Attractive grey composite decking steps down to a neatly maintained artificial lawn, with a substantial slate-effect porcelain paved patio, measuring approximately 24ft x 15ft (7.32m x 4.57m), providing a superb area for outdoor entertaining, dining and relaxation.
The garden enjoys sunshine throughout much of the day and well into the evening.
There is also the added convenience of gated access to both sides.
DOUBLE GARAGE & FRONT DRIVE
As well as the two car Front Drive wit EV Charger, there is also a Double Garage with two further parking bays in front. So off road parkign for 6 cars in all.
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.
