London Road, Billericay

Offers Over £1,295,000 - Sold


  • Substantial Character Home Occupies a Generous 1/4 Plot Within a Prime Position
  • Half a Mile from the High Street and 1 mile from the Train Station
  • Four Double Bedrooms and 2 En-Suite Shower Room
  • Re-Fitted Modern Bathroom With Drench Head Shower
  • Stylish Grey Coloured Kitchen/Diner with Bi-Folding Doors to the Garden
  • Exceptional Living Space With Four Reception Room
  • Option to Utilise Part As An Annexe or Home Office with its Own Entrance Door
  • Full Width South Facing Paved Patio Ideal For Entertaining
  • Good Size Lawn For Football, Cricket or Soft Ball Tennis
  • Excellent Family Home Worthy of Consideration

This substantial character home occupies a generously wide south facing 1/4 plot within a prime position just half a mile from the High Street and 1 mile from the train station.

As you will see from the floor plan, there are four first floor double bedrooms, each one of these has its own unique style whilst two enjoy their own ensuite shower room. For the two that don't have en-suites, you have use of a recently fitted bathroom with well-chosen stylish modern fittings to include textured tiles, fitted cabinets and a shower bath with a flush ceiling mounted drench head shower.

It is however the ground floor where this house really excels and is likely to exceed expectations while giving you the opportunity to adapt parts of the house into a self contained area as life and family dynamics demand.

As well as three mighty generously sized reception rooms and a stylishly finished kitchen diner with bi-folding doors out to the garden, you have a mighty adaptable attached games room, which with the adjoining utility room, could be utilised as either Annex accommodation or, with its own entrance door and hallway become an attached by separate, home office/treatment room.

Outside the property continues to deliver, with an approximate 82' frontage you have an incredibly wide in and out/carriage driveway as well as an extra-large attached single garage which if required could also be integrated into the main living accommodation.

Stretching across the entire width of the rear of the house is a split-level paved terrace, this gives you ample space for entertaining and with it facing in a southerly direction, is bathed in sun light. Beyond the patio is the main lawn which measures approximately 88' in depth and with an 80' width it provides plenty of space for football, cricket and soft ball tennis.


ACCOMODATION SIZES AS FOLLOWS..


RECEPTION HALL

GROUND FLOOR WC

DINING ROOM 4.86 m x 4.22 m (15'11 x 13 10)

LOUNGE 7.82 m x 4.93 m (25' 8 x 16 2)

STUDY 3.94 m x 3.48 m (12'11 x 11 5)

KITCHEN BREAKFAST ROOM 6.04 m x 3.6 m reducing to 3 m (19'2 x 11 10 reducing 210')

FAMILY/GAMES ROOM 7.14 m x 3.84 m (23'5 x 12 7)

UTILITY ROOM 3.84 m x 1.87 m (12'7 x 6 2)

LARGE FIRST FLOOR LANDING

BEDROOM ONE 4.86 m x 4.22 m (15'11 x 13 10)

ENSUITE DRESSING ROOM

ENSUITE SHOWER ROOM

BEDROOM TWO 3.76 m x 3.23 m (12'4 x 10 7)

ENSUITE SHOWER ROOM

BEDROOM THREE 3.94 m x 3.76 m (12'11 x 12 4)

BEDROOM FOUR 3.94 m x 3.48 m (12'11 x 11 7)

REFITTED FAMILY BATHROOM

OUTSIDE

APPROX 82' WIDE IN AND OUT DRIVEWAY

ATTACHED GARAGE 5.54 m x 3.33 m (18'2 x 10' 11)

APPROXIMATE 88' X 80' REAR GARDEN ENJOYING SOUTHERLY ASPECT



Council Tax
Basildon Council, Band G

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.
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Utility Supply Type
Electric Mains Supply
Gas None
Water Mains Supply
Sewerage None
Broadband None
Telephone None

Other Items Description
Heating Not Specified
Garden/Outside Space No
Parking No
Garage No

Broadband Coverage Highest Available Download Speed Highest Available Upload Speed
Standard 16 Mbps 1 Mbps
Superfast 80 Mbps 20 Mbps
Ultrafast 1139 Mbps 104 Mbps

Mobile Coverage Indoor Voice Indoor Data Outdoor Voice Outdoor Data
EE Likely Likely Enhanced Enhanced
Three Likely Likely Enhanced Enhanced
O2 Likely Likely Enhanced Enhanced
Vodafone Likely Likely Enhanced Enhanced

Broadband and Mobile coverage information supplied by Ofcom.


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