Entertain friends and family in the 80ft Garden and fit out the brick outbuilding to work from home.
As well as the large Garden, this 1 Bed Ground Floor Maisonette has the potential to turn the front garden into a Drive, subject of course to Local Authority approval.
The property is conveniently located with local shops including a handy Tesco Express just 5 minute walk away and the High Street with its central Waitrose Store, is only a little further at 0.7 mile. Plus, open countryside is little more than a stone's throw away 'around the corner'.
Inside sees the good size Hall with fitted storage units, Lounge, fitted Kitchen with a Multi-function Oven and Gas Hob, double Bedroom and a modern Bathroom with a separate W.C. room.
As mentioned, the garden comes with a useful brick out building 3.4m x 1.5m (11ft 2' x 4ft 9') which offers great potential for an outside Home Office etc and at the bottom of the Garden is a big shed with power and lighting.
The Accommodation
HALL
Smooth plastered ceilings, with inset downlighting, as found throughout.
The hallway provides access to all the rooms, complete with built-in storage cupboards, an added bonus in any flat.
LIVING ROOM 3.9m x 3.6m (12ft 10' x 11ft 9'')
With recesses for cabinets or bookshelves either side of the chimney breast and the Upvc door and adjacent window allows plenty of light to sweep through, the door providing access to the rear garden.
KITCHEN 2.45m x 2.5m (8ft 0' x 8ft 2')
Kitchen incorporates white shaker style units, black granite effect worktops, Zanussi gas hob with multi-function oven below and chimney style extractor hood above.
Trio of windows pouring in lots of light and a 7-year-old wall mounted Worcester Bosch modern gas boiler and space for washing machine and fridge freezer.
BEDROOM ONE 3.9m x 3m (12ft 10' x 9ft 11')
A fine size bedroom with recess for two double wardrobes and a large window overlooking the front of the property.
BATHROOM 1.66m x 1.63m (5ft 5' x 5ft 4')
With a rear facing window, attractive ceramic tiling from floor to ceiling, a wall mounted bathroom cabinet and a white 2 piece suite comprising Bath with mixer tap and shower attachment and basin with full pedestal.
SEPARATE W.C. ROOM 1.6m x 0.85m (5ft 3' x 2ft 9')
Half height wall tiling, close coupled W.C. storage cabinet and window overlooking the front of the property.
EXTERIOR - FRONT
The flat enjoys the use of the front garden, which potentially could be turned into a front drive Subject To Local Authority approval.
EXTERIOR - REAR
A lovely big 80ft Garden featuring a brick garden outbuilding and garden shed perfect for storage, (complete with power and lighting).
OUTBUILDING 3.4m x 1.5m (11ft 2' x 4ft 9')
A sturdy brick built affair with two single doors and an internal partition. (The power cable for the shed bypasses this location, but perhaps could be run into the outbuilding too). Ideally suited to a super work-from-home office or studio.
SHED 3.2m x 3.2m (10ft 5' x 10ft 5')
Easily convertible into a man-cave or she-shed or the perfect set up for added storage.
Featuring power and lighting.
LEASE
The Seller informs us there are approximately 115 years left remaining on the Lease.
SERVICE CHARGE
A super low £32.50 per month!
ABOUT THE AREA - SOUTH GREEN
The ancient village of South Green was first recorded as 'Southwood Greene' in 1593, becoming the more recognised South Green in 1777.
Towards the top of Bell Hill, Gatwick House, a Grade II listed building from 1767, now secluded from the road by trees, presides over the area which heads down towards the village green on the right.
A great parade of shops on Grange Road overlooks the ancient 'Green' (originally much bigger) and together, they form the heart of the area.
The shops include a Tesco Express Supermarket, Post Office, Chemist, Greengrocer and a pretty good fish and chip shop.
The local South Green Infants & Junior Schools both have 'Good' OFSTED Reports and the area falls within catchment for Billericay Secondary School, also benefiting from a 'Good' OFSTED rating.
Built in 1956 the local village hall serves the community well and on the opposite side of the road a bit further up, 'Main Road Garage' provides petrol and the usual garage services.
The bulk of the residential development has been London Borough estates, built in the 1950's and 1960's to cater for London overspill. That said, there is a number of old properties in the area, particularly around the Green, providing character appeal.
Finally, public transport. There are bus stops a-plenty in the area taking you to Billericay High Street and Mainline Railway Station in minutes and the surrounding towns in little more.
Council Tax
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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.
