An extended 5 Bedroom Detached House in a quiet cul-de-sac within the sought after Stockfield Manor Development, just 5 minutes' walk from both Billericay Railway Station (35 mins to London Liverpool Street) and the High Street.
The impressive rear extension off the original Dining Room creates a stunning 28ft open-plan Kitchen/Dining/Family Room with a vaulted ceiling, bi-fold doors, and skylights opening onto a low-maintenance, South-West facing Garden. The kitchen features Rangemaster cooker, granite-effect worktops, and integrated Bosch appliances.
The ground floor also boasts another two reception rooms - the original Lounge and a second sitting room (the conversion of the integral Garage), as well as a downstairs loo and beautiful solid Oak flooring.
The First floor offers four well-proportioned bedrooms plus a newly refitted main Bathroom and brand new Ensuite Shower Room off Bedroom Two.
Up on the Top Floor is an impressive Master Bedroom Suite, the bedroom spanning 19ft x 13ft with three double wardrobes and a huge Ensuite Bathroom featuring both Freestanding Bath and separate Shower Cubicle.
Additional benefits include some designer radiators, a C-rated EPC, Driveway parking for three cars and a composite zero maintainance shed with power,
The property is also excellently located near outstanding schools (Buttsbury Infants & Junior, Mayflower High, St. Johns Independent School), Norsey Woods, and Lake Meadows Park.
No onward chain. Keys available for immediate viewing.
The Accommodation in more detail:
HALL
Featuring attractive wood flooring that continues throughout the entire ground floor.
FEATURE OPEN PLAN KITCHEN/DINING/FAMILY ROOM 27ft 10" x 25ft 5" narrowing to 9ft 7" (8.48m x 7.75m narrowing to 2.92m)
For ease of description, we'll split this into two sections:
KITCHEN/DINER 27ft 10" x 9ft 7" (8.48m x 2.92m)
Running the full width, with kitchen at one end and dining space at the other.
The kitchen is fitted with Cream Gloss units complemented by Granite effect worktops and features a Rangemaster 'Professional' Range Cooker.
Additionally equipped with an integrated Bosch washing machine, matching integrated Dishwasher, integrated Larder Fridge and matching Freezer, plus a built-in Bosch Combination Microwave/Oven.
FAMILY ROOM 14ft 7" x 19ft 1" (4.45m x 5.82m)
The rear extension - boasting a vaulted ceiling reaching nearly 10 feet (3.05m) and flooded with natural light from two skylight windows and two full-width sets of bifolding doors.
Features a wide designer 'raw metal' radiator and gable end glazing positioned above the bifold doors.
SEPARATE LOUNGE 17ft 8" x 12ft 5" (5.38m x 3.78m)
The original Lounge, now serving as an additional reception room following the extension.
Retains the original fireplace and features a walk-in bay window with plantation shutters plus a 'raw metal' contemporary radiator.
THIRD LIVING ROOM 17'6" x 8ft 6" (5.33m x 2.59m)
A highly versatile room (converted from the garage) fitted with plantation shutters to the front window, perfectly suited as a playroom, study or even a 6th bedroom.
GROUND FLOOR WC ROOM
Equipped with white cloakroom suite and benefits from a window providing natural light.
Stairs from hallway lead to:
1st FLOOR LANDING
Generous landing featuring a remarkably large walk-in airing cupboard containing the hot water cylinder.
An additional interior door from the landing reveals a 7ft x 6ft 2" (2.13m x 1.88m) room with stairs ascending to the Master Bedroom Suite.
BEDROOM TWO 11" x 10ft 8" (3.33m x 3.25m)
Previously the Master Bedroom, consequently, it's a generously proportioned double bedroom.
BRAND NEW ENSUITE SHOWER ROOM 6ft 5" x 7ft (1.96m x 2.13m)
Recently installed with a spacious Corner Shower featuring both a fixed showerhead and a separate handset, together with a matt grey Vanity combination unit and a rear window for natural light.
BEDROOM THREE 12ft 5" x 10ft 1" (3.78m x 3.07m)
Two front-facing windows provide abundant light.
BEDROOM FOUR 11ft 10' narrowing to 9ft x 8ft 7" (3.6m > 2.74m x 2.6m)**
A front-facing double bedroom.
BEDROOM FIVE 10ft 1" x 7ft (3.07m x 2.13m)
A rear-facing bedroom.
REFITTED MAIN BATHROOM 7ft 4" x 5ft 6" (2.24m x 1.7m)
Recently refitted featuring a fixed shower head with separate handset positioned over the Bath, together with a matte grey Combination Unit housing a WC and Vanity Unit.
Stairs from the previously mentioned additional room lead up to:
TOP FLOOR MASTER BEDROOM 19ft 2" x 13ft 5" (5.84m x 4.09m)
Featuring a front-facing window and two skylight windows.
Three double wardrobes accompanied by matching chest of drawers, line the left wall.
The opposite wall features a 3ft 5" (1.04m) high door, providing access to the eaves storage.
HUGE ENSUITE BATHROOM 13ft 8" x 8ft 1" (4.17m x 2.46m)
Easily accommodates its contemporary freestanding Bath alongside a freestanding 3ft 9" x 2ft 9" (1150mm x 850mm) Shower.
Further equipped with a well-positioned pedestal hand wash basin and close coupled WC, rear-facing window and traditional-style combination towel rail/radiator.
EXTERIOR
The Front Drive comfortably accommodates three cars.
Gates positioned on either side provide access to an enclosed storage area with a useful Shed to the left, and a gated path to the Garden on the right.
The beautifully sunny SOUTH-WEST FACING L-shaped Rear Garden features two areas of artificial grass for minimal maintenance.
Located in the top right corner is a 10ft 8" x 6'7" (3.25m x 2.01m) composite shed fitted with its own circuit protector serving two double electric sockets and light.
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.
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