Looking for a shorter working day? With this 3 Bedroom Semi situated so near the Railway Station (just a 10 minute walk via the footpath at the top of the road and London Liverpool Street only 35 minutes on the train), it is sure to appeal to the London Commuter
Gordon Close is very much a hidden gem: a peaceful retreat within this popular and well-served town. Day-to-day living is effortlessly convenient, with a Sainsbury's Local just a 3-4 minute walk for the daily essentials, the nearest pub - the 'Inn on the Green' is even closer - a mere 2-minute stroll, and Lake Meadows Park with its lake, café, tennis courts and open green spaces just 6 minutes away on foot.
Queens Park Shopping Centre with its newly opened Aldi is an easy 10 minute walk/2 minute drive and Billericay High Street at 0.7 mile (15 minutes on foot) offers a good range of independent and well known shops, cafés, restaurants and a central Waitrose supermarket.
Inside this stylish home, the ground floor features a long Hall with a WC at the near end, extensive built-in storage at the far end, a front Lounge featuring a wood-burning Stove, and a superb open-plan Kitchen/Dining/Family Room with quartz worktops, a Central Island with breakfast bar and bi-folding doors opening onto the large, sunny south-east facing 73ft long Garden.
Upstairs are two larger double bedrooms - both with fitted wardrobes, and a good single 3rd Bedroom along with a fully tiled family bathroom.
Outside, the 73ft garden features a patio, lawn and raised deck and there's a 2-Car Front Drive too.
The Accommodation in more detail:
PORCH 5ft 3" x 4ft 3" (1.60m x 1.30m)
An attractive front porch extension which also incorporates a ground floor WC.
The porch has a side-facing window and glazing in the door, so there is plenty of light, and it is open plan to the original hallway.
GROUND FLOOR WC 5ft 3" x 2ft 8" (1.60m x 0.81m)
With a dark grey wall-hung Vanity Unit, WC, plantation shutters fitted to the window and white 'Metro' wall tiles which complement the patterned floor tiles.
HALL 17ft 10" x 5ft 5" (5.44m x 1.65m)
The Hall has also been extended, with some of the original kitchen taken to provide a walk-through 'Utility Area', with the washing machine and tumble dryer hidden within a large double cupboard on the left and a big double full-height cupboard on the right fabulous storage.
Above the appliances is a matching cupboard hiding the Vokéra boiler, and there is also a small side facing obscure glass window for natural light.
In addition, under the stairs is a bespoke 'understairs storage solution', push-to-open cupboards for neat, uncluttered storage and the internal doors are a very stylish Oak Veneer.
LOUNGE 13ft 7" x 11ft 9" (4.14m x 3.58m)
The feature panelled wall opposite the Fireplace and the chimney breast itself have both been painted in Farrow & Ball's 'Hague Blue' - a rich dark blue, which along with the warmth of the wood flooring, gives the room a sophisticated and elegant feel.
Inset within the Fireplace is a feature Wood-Burning Stove and the large front Bay window brings in lots of light. A really nice and cosy room.
OPEN PLAN KITCHEN/DINING/FAMILY ROOM 21ft 5" narrowing to 16ft 3" x 16ft 3" (6.53m > 4.95m x 4.95m)
Very much the on-trend large open plan rear Kitchen/Day Room with wood flooring, white gloss units and beautiful light grey Quartz worktops.
The centrepiece is the large Island with a three-seater Breakfast Bar, with the eyes also led to the bi-folding door system which opens wide out to the Garden.
Built-in appliances comprise a 5-Ring Gas Hob with a wide Chimney Extractor above, a built-in Double Oven with matching Combination Oven/Microwave above and an integrated Neff Dishwasher, plus there is space for a large American style fridge/freezer
Being South-East facing, the area is bathed in sunlight streaming in through the bi-folds and down through the twin skylight windows.
1st FLOOR LANDING
A very nice glass and oak Staircase leads up to the first floor, with matching balustrade on the landing that makes it feel really spacious, and there is also a side-facing window.
A flip-down loft hatch accesses the Loft (with a fitted ladder).
MASTER BEDROOM 11ft 7" x 10ft (3.53m x 3.05m)
A rear facing bedroom with large, fitted wardrobes to the left of the bed and bridging cupboards over the bed recess.
BEDROOM TWO 11ft 0" x 10ft 10" (3.35m x 3.30m)
Another lovely-size double bedroom with light pink walls and fitted wardrobes along the far wall.
BEDROOM THREE 7ft 3" x 8ft 7" (2.21m x 2.62m)
With a fitted double wardrobe and adjacent bridging cupboard over the bed recess - currently with a freestanding cabin bed in situ.
BATHROOM 6ft 4" x 5ft 5" (1.93m x 1.65m)
A fully tiled bathroom with a Maplewood effect combination unit and a bath with a separate shower over.
GARDEN
73ft long, commencing with a large block-paved Patio, then a central lawn and at the top of the garden, a raised deck to catch the evening sun. The shed will be remaining.
FRONT AND DRIVE
Part of the original front garden has been taken as a 2-Car Drive, the balance lawn featuring a decorative rhododendron.
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.
