Situated within the forever popular Tye Common area of Billericay, this traditionally built 2011 family home sits comfortably within its plot and offers beautifully planned accommodation of approximately 2,000 sq ft, providing generous and stylish family living space throughout. Plantation shutters, smooth ceilings and inset spotlights are recurring features that give this home a consistent and considered finish from room to room.
Each of the four first floor bedrooms are generous double rooms with three benefiting from bespoke wood-fronted wardrobes. The principal bedroom also features a characterful hipped ceiling with inset spotlights and its own en-suite shower room. The main family bathroom sits off a good-sized landing and offers a four-piece suite incorporating both a bath and a separate shower cubicle, a well-appointed space.
Downstairs, underfloor heating extends throughout the entire ground floor, and a combination of quality vinyl flooring and carpet creates a timeless feel underfoot. To the front of the house you have a formal dining room, or, as is perhaps more common nowadays, a playroom, plus there is a dedicated study or home office.
To the rear, and thoughtfully planned for modern family life, the lounge with double doors opening onto the garden connects via open access to the kitchen day room, creating a free-flowing and wonderfully sociable space. The kitchen enjoys luxury wood-fronted cabinets and granite worktops, which continue seamlessly into the utility room, whilst a lantern roof and further double doors to the garden complete what is an exceptional ground floor arrangement.
The garden, with its southerly aspect, has been landscaped and paved in porcelain tiles, a beautifully low-maintenance and stylish outdoor space. To the side of the property, a generous area not only provides access to the larger-than-average garage but also offers excellent potential for further enlargement of the house, subject to the usual consents.
Being on this side of town, the High Street is approximately 1.1mile (25-minute walk away), and the property sits within the well-regarded Quilters Primary and Billericay Secondary school catchment areas. Right on the doorstep you also have Frithwood, footpaths through to Laindon Common, Burstead Golf Club and the ever decreasing farmland for countryside walks..
ACCOMODATION AS FOLLOWS
HALLWAY
A lovely and welcoming space, with quality vinyl flooring and underfloor heating extending throughout the ground floor for that touch of luxury underfoot.
The full ceiling height staircase sits back within the hallway, and doors lead to the cloakroom, study, dining room and lounge, with open access through to the kitchen.
DINING ROOM 4.39m x 3.32m (14'5 x 10'11)
Naturally bright thanks to a three-panel front window dressed with plantation shutters and six inset spotlights, this formal dining room has a welcoming and versatile feel.
Currently set up for dining, it would equally lend itself as a playroom or a second snug sitting room, a space that will adapt as your family's needs evolve.
STUDY 2.63m x 2.38m (8'8 x 7'10)
Another front-facing room with a smooth ceiling and inset spotlights, a dedicated home office in the making, and one that ticks every box for those working from home.
GROUND FLOOR WC
Tucked neatly into the side of the hallway, the vinyl flooring extends into this well-presented cloakroom, which has a side window, push-button WC and hand basin, compact and practical in equal measure.
KITCHEN/BREAKFAST/DAY ROOM 7.42m x 3.83m (24'4 x 12'7)
The utility room sits immediately to the left as you enter, whilst the remainder of this magnificent space continues with the matching vinyl floor, quality wood-fronted cabinets and granite worktops with upstands throughout.
The kitchen area incorporates a generous range of units, an island unit with breakfast bar, a recessed range-style cooker, a built-in fridge freezer and of course a dishwasher.
To one end, a lantern rooflight bathes the sitting area in natural light, with a rear window and double doors opening directly onto the garden, a truly spectacular everyday living space.
UTILITY ROOM 2.63m x 1.79m (8'3 x 5'10)
With a side door, this will very quickly become the go-to entrance for muddy boots and dogs returning from a countryside walk.
Matching the kitchen cabinetry perfectly, the utility room has a sink unit and spaces for both a washing machine and tumble dryer, a seamless and practical continuation of the kitchen.
LOUNGE 6.61m x 3.78m (21'8 x 12'5)
A lovely room with double doors and windows looking out to the rear garden.
Slightly wider than you might typically find in a property of this type, that little bit of extra space makes all the difference, creating a fabulous area for family life and socialising, with open access in one corner leading through to the kitchen.
LANDING
The full ceiling height gives a wonderfully spacious feel to this central thoroughfare.
A side staircase window dressed with plantation shutters faces west and draws in beautiful evening light, a lovely detail that elevates what might otherwise be a purely functional space.
BEDROOM ONE 4.71m x 3.78m (15'6 x 12'5)
A generously proportioned principal bedroom with a characterful hipped ceiling and inset spotlights, a room that is both impressive in size and individual in character.
A door leads through to the en-suite shower room.
EN-SUITE SHOWER ROOM
A side window with plantation shutters brings natural light into this beautifully stone-tiled space.
The three-piece white suite comprises a shower cubicle with overhead shower and hand shower, an inset wash basin with cupboards under and a push-button WC.
Smooth ceiling, inset spotlights and a chrome towel rail complete the well-finished look.
BEDROOM TWO 4.39m x 3.32m (14'5 x 10'11)
Another generous double room with a hipped ceiling, inset spotlights and bespoke wood-fronted wardrobes, carrying through the same quality and character found in the principal bedroom.
BEDROOM THREE 3.83m x 3.53m (12'7 x 11'7)
Looking out to the rear, this third double bedroom also benefits from built-in wardrobes and a pleasant outlook.
BEDROOM FOUR 4.29m x 2.77m (14'1 x 9'1)
The fourth double bedroom continues the theme with bespoke wood-fronted built-in wardrobes and inset spotlights, a versatile fourth bedroom.
FAMILY BATHROOM
Matching the en-suite in style and finish, this stone-tiled four-piece bathroom has a side window with plantation shutters providing natural light.
The suite comprises an inset bath, a separate shower cubicle with overhead shower and hand shower, an inset wash basin and a push-button WC, an impressively fitted family bathroom.
Smooth ceiling, inset spotlights and a chrome towel rail complete the look.
OUTSIDE
FRONT
The front of the property is principally paved, providing a good level of off-street parking with flower beds to the front boundary. The driveway extends to the side of the house and onwards to the garage.
REAR GARDEN
Landscaped within the last few years, this southerly-facing garden is paved throughout in porcelain tiles, creating a versatile and beautifully low-maintenance outdoor entertaining space.
Surrounding shrub beds incorporate a run of pleached trees providing an excellent level of added privacy, whilst outside courtesy lighting, a rounded bullnose step edge, an outside tap and gates fitted to both sides complete what is a wonderfully relaxing and well-considered outdoor space.
A personal door provides access directly into the garage.
GARAGE 5.55m x 3.62m (18'3 x 11'10)
Larger than the average garage, this well-proportioned space benefits from an electric up-and-over door, power connected and boarded eaves storage above.
Council Tax
Basildon Council, Band E
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.
