A stunning 4 Bedroom Semi-Detached House near the Station, extended to the side and rear and boasting a very stylish and contemporary Garden Room in the 70ft Garden.
Extended in 2017, this very impressive property sits within the sought-after Sunnymede neighbourhood, just a 10-minute walk from both Billericay Railway Station (35 minutes to Liverpool Street), and the High Street with its central Waitrose Store. Local shops including Tesco Express are moments away (2 minute walk), with the local Sunnymede Primary School and the 90-acre Mill Meadows Nature Reserve also just 10 minute strolls too.
The accommodation comprises a 17ft long Entrance Hall, Lounge, Playroom/2nd Reception Room, a stunning open-plan Kitchen/Dining/Family Room with bi-folding doors out to the Garden - the Shaker-style kitchen area boasting a central Island and integrated appliances, separate Utility Room and stylish ground floor cloakroom complete the ground floor.
Upstairs, the show-stopping master suite boasts vaulted ceilings reaching nearly 14ft, an ensuite shower room, and a unique mezzanine dressing room accessed via a striking black gloss spiral staircase. Three further double bedrooms and a luxurious family bathroom with freestanding bath and separate shower serve the first floor.
Outside, the beautifully landscaped 70ft garden features a slate-effect patio, artificial lawn, and an exceptional insulated garden cabin with air-conditioning perfect as a home office, gym or studio, complete with adjoining covered entertaining area.
An outstanding family home presented to the highest standard throughout.
HALLWAY 16ft 10" x 5ft 5" (5.13m x 1.65m)
Making a great first impression, with attractive wood effect flooring which runs into the open plan Kitchen/Dining/Family Room beyond, a handy understairs cupboard and a discreet recess just as you enter (on the right) for coats.
SEPARATE LOUNGE 14ft 2" x 10ft 10" (4.32m x 3.30m)
A nice size separate front lounge with a big window bringing in lots of natural light.
PLAYROOM 14ft 8" x 10ft 1" (4.47m x 3.07m)
Formerly (the majority part of) the lounge (a new rear wall has given the open plan rear kitchen/diner/family room a little bit more depth) and so another excellent size living room!
It still retains its chimney breast and therefore probable fire behind, and the big front facing window floods in lots of sunlight too. A great second reception room!
OPEN PLAN KITCHEN/DINING/FAMILY ROOM 18ft 3" x 18ft 10" max (5.56m x 5.74m)
The stylish Hub and Heart-of-the-Home.
Its almost square size gives it a most agreeable layout. The Kitchen Area is on the right as you enter, the Family Area taking the top right of the room, the Dining Area the top left, with across the back wall, at almost 14 feet wide, a set of bi-folding doors opening out to the Patio, really bringing the outside in during the warm summer months.
We like the feature 'copper leaf' paint running around the reveals of the bi-folding doors - a really nice feature that picks up nicely with the attractive, shiny wood effect flooring and the contrasting greys of the Shaker style kitchen units, themselves topped with 'Walnut' effect worktops.
The kitchen area itself features a Central Island Unit to gather round, which incorporates the kitchen sink.
There is also a built-in Induction Hob, Multifunction Oven/Grill and a Combination Oven/Microwave.
UTILITY ROOM 7ft 6" narrowing to 6ft 2" x 4ft 4" minimum (2.29m x 1.32m)
This handy little room houses the washing machine and tumble dryer under the same 'Walnut' effect worktop as the kitchen, this time with a nice shade of dusky pink Shaker style eye-level cupboards above.
Door through to:
GROUND FLOOR WC 6ft 2" max x 4ft 4" max (1.88m x 1.32m)
A stylish and modern ground floor Cloakroom with a side facing window for natural light and attractive feature Ted Baker 'Paradise' (jungle print design) tiling behind the basin.
We noted the further attention to detail where the chrome tower radiator is served by matching chrome pipework, as is the water supply to the basin. A nice touch.
Stairs from Hall to:
1st FLOOR LANDING
The landing splits into two due to the double storey extension. Doors off to:
MASTER BEDROOM 13ft x 11ft 7" (3.96m x 3.53m)
Yet another of the 'wow' areas of the house with the feature vaulted ceiling soaring up nearly 14ft!
The high ceiling coupled with a large rear facing window gives the room a real feeling of light and space too.
A sumptuous bedroom suite, it boasts both its own private Ensuite Shower room as well as a unique mezzanine (upstairs) Walk-in Wardrobe/Dressing room the black gloss feature spiral staircase on the right the feature access to the mezzanine.
MEZZANINE DRESSING ROOM 14ft 2" max x 8ft 9" (4.32m x 2.67m)
A fabulous and clever use of space!
(There's a small further storage/display area looking down on the main bedroom as you go up the spiral steps). Once up the stairs, you go through to the main area where there are two x 4 feet high doors that open to reveal the surprisingly large Loft Space and the Boiler cupboard, respectively.
(Once you've ducked and gone through the door to the loft, the roof space opens up to stand up height and there is a light out here as well. A really easily accessible and marvellous storage space!)
The boiler cupboard houses the Vaillant Ecotec Plus combination boiler serving the gas central heating and hot water.
ENSUITE SHOWER ROOM 7ft x 6ft 4" (2.13m x 1.93m)
Boasting a lovely big 2ft 10" x 3ft 4" (0.86m x 1.02m) Shower Enclosure with both a 'Drench' Showerhead as well as a separate handset.
Along with a close coupled WC and pedestal basin, there is also feature slate flooring which picks up the (as found in the ground floor WC Room) feature Ted Baker 'Paradise' ceramic wall tiles with their jungle print pattern.
BEDROOM TWO 13ft 1" x 9ft 8" (3.99m x 2.95m)
The original master bedroom, so an excellent size double bedroom with the almost full width front facing window maximising light.
Both this bedroom and bedroom Four also have feature plantation shutters.
We like the feature emerald green panelled far wall.
BEDROOM THREE 11ft 7" x 8ft (3.53m x 2.44m)
Another fabulous size big double bedroom with an almost full width, rear facing window flooding in lots of light.
BEDROOM FOUR 11ft 0" x 7ft 6" (3.35m x 2.29m)
Another fine size bedroom that will take a double bed with ease.
BATHROOM 12ft 5" x 7ft 9" max (3.78m x 2.36m)
A beautiful bathroom, big enough for its feature focal point, deep and spacious, freestanding Bath as well as its large separate 1100mm x 860mm Double Shower.
In keeping with its vintage theme, there is also a traditional style pedestal hand wash basin and close coupled WC.
The skylight provides plenty of natural light with further features including a very tall chrome towel radiator, downlighting and extractor fan.
GARDEN
Beautifully landscaped complete with a slate effect patio which drops down to an artificial lawn, running down the garden to the feature Garden Room.
There is a handy outside tap and twin lights on the back of the house, and down the side is a very wide area providing out of the way bin storage, along with a side gate round to the front.
GARDEN CABIN/STUDIO
Very impressive. Comprising the main cabin itself, along with its adjoining covered area which would be perfect for a Summer alfresco eating/entertaining area, or maybe even a hot tub.
The attached covered deck area is zero maintenance composite decking.
CABIN 15ft 7" x 9ft (4.75m x 2.74m)
A modern, fully insulated Garden Room with two sets of sliding patio doors, designed as a versatile year-round usable space, ideal as a home office, gym, studio or additional living area.
There is even air-conditioning (a Midea heat and cool air-conditioning unit), along with attractive wood effect flooring, several power sockets, inset downlighting and wiring for a wall mounted television.
Council Tax
Basildon Council, Band D
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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.
