- Refurbished Throughout To A High Specification
- Approximately 0.7 Miles & 16-Minute Walk To The Station
- Superb Open-Plan Living Room With Three Distinct Zones
- Quality Kitchen Fitted in 2022 By Hutton Kitchens With Full Siemens Appliance Range
- Plantation Shutters To Lounge & Principal Bedroom Windows
- Three Bedrooms Two Doubles & One Single/Nursery/Home Office
- Aqualisa Quartz Shower With Black-Edged Screen In Bathroom
- Fibre Broadband Connected To House
- Rear Garden With Summerhouse & Raised Vegetable Garden
- Garage With Worcester Boiler & Plumbing For Washing Machine
Great vision and considerable investment have combined to create this superb home, which following a complete refurbishment now offers stylish open-plan living with featuring well chosen, high-quality fittings.
Situated approximately 0.7 miles, around a 16-minute walk, from the station, with the High Street just beyond, this is a home that will appeal equally to commuters and families alike. Local schooling facilities and shops are within easy reach, whilst open fields just down the road provide the perfect escape for those all-important destress countryside walks.
Transformed from its original layout, the home still retains the convenience of a downstairs WC and a separate hallway, whilst the main living area has been opened up to provide three distinct zones that combine beautifully to create a versatile space for both everyday living and entertaining.
Upstairs, three bedrooms comprise two doubles and a single, and the bathroom has also been fully refitted to a high standard.
Further points of note include a newly fitted Worcester combi boiler, an electric roller door to the garage, replacement windows throughout and the added convenience of fibre broadband to the house, a real bonus for home workers and streaming households alike.
HALLWAY
A decorative tiled floor sets the tone immediately, giving a stylish and welcoming entrance. Carpeted stairs rise to the first floor, whilst modern grey panel doors open to the downstairs WC and the lounge.
DOWNSTAIRS WC
Fitted with a white suite, this neat cloakroom has a front-facing window, a push-button WC and a wall-mounted hand basin. Compact, clean and practical.
OPEN-PLAN LIVING ROOM 7.5m x 5.41m (24'7 x 17'8)
A fabulous and generously proportioned space with wood laminate flooring arranged across three distinct zones, a lounging area, a dining area and a kitchen, all flowing seamlessly together and centred around a large island unit that creates a real hub for the home.
LOUNGING AREA
Positioned to the front of the room, two windows dressed with plantation shutters flood the space with natural light, while a dedicated wall with TV wiring is ready for your statement screen.
KITCHEN
Fitted in 2022 by Hutton Kitchens, a renowned local company, this beautifully specified kitchen features a range of coloured cabinets incorporating pan drawers, a pull-out bin store and a built-in cupboard, alongside an impressive lineup of integrated Siemens appliances, dishwasher, fridge freezer, oven and a five-ring hob.
A wine cooler, pop-up electric sockets on the island unit and a block-tiled splashback with decorative brass edging complete the look with a real designer touch.
DINING AREA
Sitting naturally inside the French doors that open to the garden, this dining zone has ample space for a generous dining table, perfect for family meals and dinner parties alike.
LANDING
A side-facing window, matching panel doors to each room, an access point to the loft and a built-in storage cupboard has replaced the old airing cupboard since the combi boiler was fitted.
BEDROOM ONE 3.79m plus wardrobes x 3.21m (12'5 plus wardrobes x 10'6)
Two front-facing windows with plantation shutters immediately give this bedroom a lovely welcoming feel. Three double wardrobes provide excellent storage, with plenty of further space for a dressing table and drawers, a well-thought-out main bedroom.
BEDROOM TWO 3.22m x 3m (10'6 x 9'10)
A good-sized second double bedroom with a rear-facing window and a pleasant garden outlook.
BEDROOM THREE 2.9m x 2.09m (9'6 x 6'10)
With a front-facing window and plantation shutters, this third bedroom could accommodate a single bed but has proven equally popular as a nursery or home office.
BATHROOM
Tiled flooring and striking dark-tiled walls create a bold, contemporary backdrop for the white suite, which comprises a WC with vanity unit and mixer taps, a panel-enclosed bath with mixer taps, and a black-edged shower screen with an Aqualisa Quartz shower unit. A rear window, wall-mounted bathroom cabinet and a rotating mirror complete what is a very stylish room.
OUTSIDE
FRONT
A driveway provides off-street parking, with an additional recessed hardstanding across the front offering further parking space. A small garden area completes the traditional family home setting.
GARAGE 5.44m x 2.63m (17'9 x 8'7)
The quality evident throughout the house continues into the garage, which benefits from an electric roller door.
In the corner sits a smart, newly installed Worcester combi boiler, and there is plumbing for a washing machine along with ample space for a tumble dryer.
REAR GARDEN
The garden is principally laid to lawn with well-stocked shrub beds. A corner summerhouse and a raised vegetable garden add charm and practicality, whilst a newly installed fence along one side incorporates a secure side gate.
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.
