A VERY WELL PRESENTED THREE BEDROOM SEMI-DETACHED HOUSE WITH A HUGE GARAGE (VIA PRIVATE REAR ACCESS) & NO ONWARD CHAIN
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This beautifully presented Three Bedroom Semi occupies a particularly attractive position, set back from the road along a quiet pedestrian walkway with no passing traffic immediately in front of the house.
But perhaps its biggest surprise is to the rear, where a private service road leads around to a substantial 20ft 3' x 10ft (6.17m x 3.05m) garage considerably larger than the average garage and easily big enough to drive into with plenty of room to spare around the car. With power, lighting and its own consumer unit, it offers excellent storage, workshop or hobby space as well as secure parking.
Inside, the house is presented to a very high standard, combining a warm, characterful feel with stylish modern touches. The attractive bay-fronted Lounge retains its original fireplace/chimney breast (currently closed up), while the separate Dining Room opens directly onto the garden. The well-appointed Kitchen provides plenty of storage and worktop space, and upstairs are Three genuinely good size bedrooms together with a beautifully refitted Victorian-inspired Shower Room.
Outside, the 41ft rear garden is designed for minimum maintenance and maximum relaxation and has a rear gate going out to the service road. There is also scope to reposition the rear boundary in line with the back of the Garage, to create an additional off road parking area alongside the garage.
Location-wise, this house is exceptionally convenient.
- Billericay Station is just 0.6 mile (12 minutes walkaway), while local shops including a Sainsbury's Local and the popular 'Inn on the Green' pub/restaurant are less than 300m away barely four minutes on foot. Brightside Primary School is approximately 0.4 mile (8 minutes walk), Lake Meadows Park is just four minutes away, and Lidl at Queens Park Shopping Centre is around 0.3 mile (8 minute walk/1 minute drive!).
Billericay High Street itself is also only 0.7 mile (15 minutes) away.
So, presented beautifully, superbly positioned, offering unusually good parking and offered with NO ONWARD CHAIN this is one that deserves a closer look.
The Accommodation in more detail:
HALL 11ft 9' x 5ft 5' (3.58m x 1.65m)
'White Oak' effect laminate flooring flows through into the Kitchen and there is also a useful under-stairs storage housing the electrical consumer unit and gas meter.
LOUNGE 13ft 6' x 11ft 9' (4.11m x 3.58m)
A particularly attractive and cosy front room with a large bay window maximising natural light. The original chimney breast remains, complete with marble panel and hearth within a wood surround.
DINING ROOM 11ft 1' x 9ft 7' (3.38m x 2.92m)
A lovely-sized second reception room with sliding patio doors opening directly onto the garden.
KITCHEN 11ft x 7ft 6' (3.35m x 2.29m)
Fitted with an attractive range of light grey 'Shaker' style units with granite-effect worktops, spaces for the usual appliances and a built-in Hob with an Oven/Grill below and Chimney-style Extractor above.
A Glow-worm Energy 730 C combination boiler is located in the corner, while a glazed rear door and window overlook the garden.
Stairs from Hall to:
FIRST FLOOR LANDING
A side-facing window provides natural light and there's an over-stairs airing/storage cupboard.
A pull-down loft hatch with fitted ladder gives easy access to the loft, which has a light and is extensively boarded, providing excellent additional storage.
BEDROOM ONE 11ft x 10ft 10' (3.35m x 3.30m)
A well-decorated rear-facing double bedroom.
BEDROOM TWO 11ft 9' x 10ft (3.58m x 3.05m)
Another excellent-sized double bedroom, this one enjoying a pleasant front-facing outlook over the green.
BEDROOM THREE 8ft 6' x 7ft 3' (2.59m x 2.21m)
A very good-sized third bedroom, currently used as a study, with front-facing window overlooking the green.
SHOWER ROOM 6ft 5' x 5ft 6' (1.96m x 1.68m)
Beautifully refitted in a traditional-meets-modern style, with Victorian-inspired sanitaryware complemented by contemporary finishes.
Features include a corner shower with fixed rainfall-style shower and separate handset, a freestanding Vanity Unit, high-level WC, white metro-style wall tiling, 'white marble'-effect floor tiles, heated towel radiator and a good-sized window providing natural daylight.
GARAGE 20ft 3' x 10ft (6.17m x 3.05m)
A major feature of the property and substantially larger than an average garage.
The precast garage has a proper flat roof rather than the original asbestos sheet roofs often found on similar garages in the neighbourhood, together with four windows providing excellent natural light. The existing up-and-over door could easily be upgraded to a remote-controlled electric door, as there is already power and lighting already installed (the garage also benefits from its own separate consumer unit)
REAR GARDEN 41ft x 20ft (12.50m x 6.10m)
Designed with low maintenance in mind, the garden is currently gravelled, although this could easily be removed to reinstate lawn and create a patio area.
There's a side gate (round to the front) and a rear gate providing direct access onto the private service road, making the garage and rear parking particularly convenient.
Of note, the rear boundary could potentially be moved forward in line with the back of the garage, creating more off street parking - alongside the garage. Or the rear boundary fence could be replaced with a rolling remote controlled gate, and the area in front of it block paved, to give dual use as a rear Patio as well as extra off street parking if needed.
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.
