This beautifully presented and impressively extended Three/Four Bedroom Mid-Terrace home offers flexible, family friendly accommodation throughout, in a quiet setting in Billericay.
Downstairs, the property has been thoughtfully extended to create a bright, sociable Open-plan Kitchen/Dining Room, complete with bi-fold doors leading out to the Garden, cream cabinets, integrated appliances and space for an American style Fridge/Freezer. A separate Living Room is accessed via the Hallway or Kitchen/Dining Room. While a versatile further front room offers the flexibility to be used as a Playroom, Home Office or Fourth Bedroom. A dedicated Utility Room and Downstairs WC complete the ground floor.
Upstairs, the property offers three further Bedrooms, including a generous Master Bedroom with fitted storage across two walls, a second Double Bedroom also with fitted storage and a Third Bedroom currently arranged as a Home Office with a fitted wardrobe, ideal for those working from home. A refurbished family Bathroom completes the First Floor.
Externally, the South-West facing Rear Garden has been beautifully maintained, with a patio area offering plenty of room for Garden furniture and a large Shed with power, providing useful additional storage. To the front, a smart block paved driveway provides off-street parking for up to three cars, in a quiet setting away from main roads.
Ganels Road itself is within walking distance of Billericay High Street, with its wide range of independent shops, cafés and restaurants. Billericay Railway Station is close by too, offering fast and frequent services into London Liverpool Street, making this a fantastic option for families and commuters.
Accommodation as follows...
ENTRANCE HALL 20ft 6' x 5ft 8' narrowing to 4ft 5' (6.25m x 1.73m)
A welcoming Entrance Hall with red carpet running up the staircase, wide enough for shoes and a coat rack, plus useful understairs storage. The Hallway leads straight ahead to the Kitchen/Dining Room, left into the Living Room and right into the Ground Floor Fourth Bedroom/Playroom/Study.
Spotlights run throughout the Ground Floor.
LIVING ROOM 18ft 4' x 11ft (5.6m x 3.34m)
A comfortable Living Room with the same wooden flooring found throughout the ground floor, front-facing and finished with an electric fireplace set within the original fireplace surround. The room flows naturally from the Kitchen/Dining Room, giving an Open-Plan feel.
KITCHEN/DINING ROOM 22ft 2' x 12ft (6.78m x 3.66m)
The heart of the home, benefiting from the rear extension and flooded with natural light.
Space for a large Dining table and fitted with cream cabinets, a large 'Smeg' Gas Hob, 'AEG' Oven and an 'Indesit' Dishwasher. Plus space for an American style Fridge/Freezer.
Bi-fold doors open onto the South-West facing Garden, and wooden flooring runs seamlessly through from the hallway and into the Living Room.
UTILITY ROOM 6ft 6' x 5ft 8' (2m x 1.75m)
A genuinely useful addition tucked away from the Kitchen, with grey tiled flooring, space for a Washing Machine and Dryer.
The 'Ideal' combi boiler is neatly housed here, and there's storage both above and below the sink.
DOWNSTAIRS WC 6ft 10' x 2ft 7' (2.1m x 0.8m)
Finished with light blue painted walls above half height grey tiling and a mirrored wall cabinet.
FOURTH BEDROOM/PLAYROOM/STUDY 10ft 6' x 7ft 4' (3.2m x 2.24m)
A versatile Ground Floor room with beige carpet, front-facing, currently used as a Playroom but could be used as a Fourth Bedroom or Study.
Meters discreetly housed away in a cupboard.
Stairs from Entrance Hall lead to...
FIRST FLOOR LANDING 9ft x 2ft 6' (2.8m x 0.8m)
Red carpet continues up the stairs and onto the landing, which provides access to all upstairs rooms, the airing cupboard, and the boarded loft.
Spotlights throughout the First Floor.
MASTER BEDROOM 12ft 10' x 10ft 3' (3.93 x 3.14m)
Large Double Bedroom with room for a super-king size bed and space for two bedside cabinets.
Finished with cream carpet and fitted storage spanning two walls.
Front-facing.
BEDROOM TWO 9ft 3' x 10ft 5' (2.84m x 3.2m)
Another well proportioned Double Bedroom also Front Facing, with cream carpet and fitted storage.
BEDROOM THREE 8ft 2' x 7ft 6' (2.5m x 2.3m)
Currently arranged as a Home Office, this Rear-Facing room has grey carpet and fitted storage behind the door, and would comfortably take a single bed if required.
BATHROOM
7ft 5' x 5ft 6' (2.3m x 1.7m)
This Rear-Facing Bathroom features grey wooden flooring, blue tiled walls, a ceramic wash basin with storage beneath, a bath with rainfall shower overhead, a vertical radiator, and two wall mounted mirrored cabinets.
Two windows allowing natural light and great ventilation.
EXTERNAL
REAR GARDEN
Accessed via the Kitchen Bi-folds, the South-West facing Rear-Garden is part paving & part lawn, offering space for Garden furniture and a large shed with power.
FRONT DRIVE
To the front, a block paved driveway accommodates up to three cars, in a quiet position away from main roads.
Council Tax
Basildon Council, Band C
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.
