- No Onward Chain
- Large 4 Bedroom Semi Boasting a Sunny 50ft SOUTH Facing Garden
- 0.8 Mile to High St & Billericay Railway Station (London Liverpool Street in 30 minutes)
- Local Shops Including a Tesco Express 'Just Up The Road'
- Attached Garage with 'Up & Over' Doors Either End, Allowing Access Straight Through Into The Garden
- Entrance Lobby With Door to Ground Floor WC
- Big 17ft square Lounge With Wide Front Window For Maximum Light
- Full Width Kitchen/Diner with Cream gloss Kitchen Units & Sliding Doors to the Garden
- Modern Bathroom with 'Showerbath' Featuring a 'Rainfall' Showerhead
- Gas Central Heating With Combi Boiler. Double Glazed Windows. Redecorated within recent years
This large four-bedroom semi-detached house offers a genuinely impressive proposition, a super-sized lounge, a spacious kitchen diner, four bedrooms, an attached garage with the rather useful feature of up-and-over doors at both ends allowing straight-through access, and a due south-facing rear garden approaching 50' in length.
Offered with no onward chain, the property has been decorated throughout in neutral colours with a pleasing combination of laminate flooring to the ground floor and carpet to the first floor, a practical and attractive finish that works well as a blank canvas for any incoming buyer.
Gas central heating is served by a combination boiler, a downstairs WC adds everyday practicality, and the refitted kitchen and bathroom both present very well, making this a move-in-ready family home with its own driveway to the front.
Conveniently located within 0.8 miles of Billericay's mainline railway station, with direct services to Westfield at Stratford and London Liverpool Street in just 25-30 minutes, this is a home that will appeal.
The local Sunnymede Infant and Junior Schools, both with good Ofsted reports, are just an 8 to 9-minute walk away, as are Mill Meadows Nature Reserve and Norsey Woods, providing a wonderful balance of convenience and outdoor space. A Tesco Express nearby rounds off the everyday practicality rather nicely.
ACCOMODATION AS FOLLOWS..
ENTRANCE PORCH
A uPVC entrance door opens into this porch where attractive wood laminate flooring extends through into the lounge and kitchen diner beyond, a smart and practical choice for a busy family home.
GROUND FLOOR WC
Refitted with a smart white cloakroom suite comprising a white gloss vanity unit and a close-coupled WC. The same matching wood laminate flooring from the hall continues in here, and a high-level window provides natural light.
LOUNGE 5.20m x 5.10m (17'0 x 16'9)
A superb and genuinely super-sized living room, flooded with light streaming through the nearly 11ft wide front-facing window.
A room that immediately impresses and one that will comfortably accommodate even the largest of sofas and furniture arrangements.
KITCHEN/DINER 5.20m x 3.80m (17'0 x 12'5)
A notably spacious kitchen diner with room for an eight-seater dining table and chairs, the previous owner had one, and it fitted with ease.
Attractive high-gloss cream units topped with dark wood-effect worktops incorporate a built-in electric hob with a stainless-steel chimney-style extractor hood above, and a built-in multi-function double oven and grill.
Two undercounter spaces accommodate a washing machine and dishwasher, and a recess is set aside for a freestanding fridge freezer.
Neatly concealed within the cabinetry is the Ideal Logic+ C30 combination boiler serving both the gas central heating and hot water.
Being south-facing, this room benefits from sunshine throughout the day, streaming in through the sliding patio doors, a rear window and the part-glazed side door, a bright and uplifting space to cook, dine and socialise in.
FIRST FLOOR LANDING
A flip-down hatch with fitted ladder provides loft access, the loft is insulated, part-boarded and has a light fitted.
With the combination boiler now in the kitchen, the former airing cupboard has been freed up to provide a very useful additional storage space.
BEDROOM ONE 4.00m x 3.00m (13'3 x 10'0)
A very generous front-facing principal bedroom with a nearly 8ft wide window giving an even greater impression of light and space.
BEDROOM TWO 2.90m > 2.60m x 2.60m (9'7 > 8'7 x 8'7)
A rear-facing bedroom with a pleasant outlook over the roof tops behind.
BEDROOM THREE 2.90m x 2.45m (9'7 x 8'1)
Another rear-facing bedroom with a pleasant outlook over the garden and beyond.
BEDROOM FOUR 3.20m > 2.70m x 2.00m (10'5 > 8'9 x 6'9)
A front-facing bedroom with the added benefit of a full-height built-in wardrobe.
BATHROOM 2.20m x 1.70m (7'2 x 5'6)
Refitted with a modern white suite featuring a push button wc, wash basin and a showerbath with an extra-wide showering area, a stylish overhead rainfall showerhead and a separate hand attachment.
A side-facing window provides plenty of natural daylight, complemented by modern ceramic tiling around the bath area, an extractor fan, a chrome towel radiator and a shaver socket, a well-planned and practical family bathroom.
OUTSIDE
FRONT
The front garden is lawn with a driveway providing off-street parking, screened by a laurel hedge for a pleasing degree of privacy.
GARAGE 5.00m x 2.40m (16'3 x 7'10)
A very useful and versatile garage with up-and-over doors at both the front and rear, allowing straight-through access, which is particularly handy for motorcycles, however cars would have to currently stop prior to the concrete step which juts out.
The garage has its own separate Niglon circuit protection unit, lighting and power sockets.
SIDE AREA
Between the rear of the garage and the garden is a generous side area measuring 6.25m x 2.20m (20'6 x 7'4) a very useful additional outdoor space.
REAR GARDEN
Approaching 50' in length and facing due south, this garden is a real sun trap from morning to evening. A full-width patio provides the perfect setting for alfresco dining and summer barbecues, stepping down to the main lawn with decorative borders and a large shed which will remain with the property.
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.
