Crown Road, Billericay

Price £400,000 - New Instruction


Situated within the conservation area overlooking the Festival Gardens opposite, and literally just off the High Street (a 1 minute walk!) with the Mainline Station only a 2 minute walk too, is this attractive Two Bedroom Terrace Cottage which was built as one of five similar houses in 2009.

This well presented property comes with underfloor heating both upstairs and down, double glazing and a fabulous 'sun trap' of a Garden, as it is South West facing.

The ground floor has a modern open plan layout with the Lounge area at the near end (provision for a wall mounted TV), Dining Area in the middle and the Kitchen area at the far end, where the wide double doors swing out to the Garden. Under the stairs is a huge under stairs cupboard which also houses the washing machine.

Upstairs are the two bedrooms front and rear, and a Shower Room in the middle.



The Accommodation in more details:


Chunky wooden front door through to:

OPEN PLAN LIVING ROOM AND KITCHEN AREA 23ft x 11ft (7.01m x 3.35m)

This contemporary open plan living area incorporates space for the lounge area, dining area and a fitted kitchen at the far end with a set of double doors opening out to the garden.

Attractive wood effect tiled flooring perfectly complements the classic tongue and groove panelling and cottage themed fitted kitchen area.

The kitchen incorporates a built-in gas hob with a multifunction double oven/grill below and extractor hood above, integrated fridge/freezer, integrated dishwasher and within the very large under stairs cupboard is the washing machine.

The 900mm wide peninsula unit also incorporates a two seater breakfast bar plus there is plenty of room between this and the sofa for a small dining table set as well.



Stairs rising to:

MASTER BEDROOM 11ft x 9ft 2in (3.35m x 2.79m)

A double bedroom with a built-in cupboard.



BEDROOM TWO 10ft 10in x 6ft 3in (3.30m x 1.91m)

A rear facing bedroom with full width built-in wardrobes with a wide set of double doors.



SHOWER ROOM 7ft x 3ft 10" (2.13m x 1.17m)

A fully tiled shower room with a 1200mm x 650mm double shower and a semi recessed Porcelanosa basin with an adjacent back to wall WC.



GARDEN 20ft x 12ft (6.10m x 3.66m)

An absolute sun trap of a garden as it is south-west facing.

Nicely landscaped with an initial patio, with steps leading up to a seating area with a splash of Mediterranean style; the seating area and retaining wall are painted white and artificial grass laid. So minimal maintenance.

Additional features include an outside tap and double electrical socket.



Council Tax
Basildon Council, Band D

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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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The Energy-Efficiency Rating is a measure of a home's overall efficiency. The higher the rating, the more energy-efficient the home is, and the lower the fuel bills are likely to be.

Utility Supply Type
Electric Mains Supply
Gas Mains Supply
Water Mains Supply
Sewerage Mains Supply
Broadband Unknown
Telephone Unknown

Other Items Description
Heating Under Floor Heating
Garden/Outside Space No
Parking No
Garage No

Broadband Coverage Highest Available Download Speed Highest Available Upload Speed
Standard Unknown Unknown
Superfast Unknown Unknown
Ultrafast Unknown Unknown

Mobile Coverage Indoor Voice Indoor Data Outdoor Voice Outdoor Data
EE Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
Three Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
O2 Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
Vodafone Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown

Broadband and Mobile coverage information supplied by Ofcom.


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