- Semi-Detached Family Home On The Norsey Farm Development
- Four Bedrooms, Two Of Which Are Double Rooms
- Bathroom With White Suite, Shower & Spotlights
- Buttsbury Primary & Mayflower School Area
- 72' South-Facing Garden With Wooded Backdrop
- Lounge Opening To Dining Room & Kitchen Overlooking Garden
- Downstairs WC
- Refurbished Upstairs With New Doors, Carpets & Decoration
- Garage With Up-And-Over Door, Power & Eaves Storage
Without doubt, the 72' south-facing rear garden with its wonderful wooded backdrop, combined with being within the catchment area' for Buttsbury Primary and Mayflower Secondary Schools, will be among the biggest appeals of this property.
Situated on the ever-popular Norsey Farm development on the north side of Billericay, this four-bedroom semi-detached home offers the accommodation needed to suit most family requirements at this price point.
In addition to four bedrooms, the property has a family bathroom with a white suite, a ground floor WC and a lounge which opens into the dining room, which in turn connects to the kitchen overlooking the garden. It's worth noting that in similarly designed properties, the kitchen and dining room are often combined to create a full-width kitchen diner something that could equally be considered here, subject to the usual consents.
Over recent years a number of less obvious but important improvements have been made, including a new consumer unit and a Vaillant combi boiler. Upstairs, the planned refurbishment has already begun with newly fitted doors, freshly decorated bedrooms and modern carpets. Next on the list was the downstairs, but new project awaits!
As mentioned, the garden is a real highlight and would also offer excellent potential for a generous rear extension, subject to planning. To the side of the house, a long driveway leads to a detached garage, a very useful addition that completes what is an appealing and well-rounded family home.
ACCOMODATION AS FOLLOWS..
PORCH AREA
A uPVC entrance door opens into this useful entrance space, from which a door leads to the downstairs WC and a further door opens into the main entrance hall.
ENTRANCE HALL
The wood-style laminate flooring continues from the porch through into the hallway, where there is useful storage beneath the stairs and doors leading to both the lounge and the kitchen.
GROUND FLOOR WC
With a side window, this cloakroom is fitted with a low-level WC and a wall-mounted hand basin.
LOUNGE 4.72m x 3.87m (15'6 x 12'8)
A really pleasing room with a generous feel to it. A front-facing window brings in a good level of natural light, there is a stone fire surround, and open access leads through to the dining room, a convenient set up for family life and entertaining.
DINING ROOM 2.95m x 2.74m (9'8 x 9')
With a rear-facing window and a serving hatch to the kitchen, this is a comfortable and functional dining space.
It is worth noting that in other similarly designed properties, the dining room and kitchen have been combined to create an open-plan kitchen diner, sometimes accessed directly via the lounge, which is something that could work very well here, subject to the usual consents.
KITCHEN 3.63m x 3.23m (11'11 x 10'7)
Looking out onto the garden and benefitting from a rear door, this kitchen has a practical range of units incorporating spaces for a cooker, dishwasher, washing machine and fridge freezer.
A newly installed Vaillant combi boiler is neatly positioned on the rear wall.
LANDING
Modern varnished panel doors open to each of the bedrooms and the bathroom.
There is also an airing cupboard and a loft access point.
BEDROOM ONE 3.66m x 3.65m (12' x 12')
A generous first double bedroom with a front-facing window and the added benefit of built-in wardrobes to two walls, excellent storage for a main bedroom.
BEDROOM TWO 2.96m x 2.18m (9'8 x 7'2)
Another well-proportioned double bedroom, this time with a rear-facing window that enjoys lovely views over the wooded backdrop, an unexpected bonus for a development like this.
BEDROOM THREE 3.65m max x 2.92m (12' max x 9'7)
This third bedroom looks out to the front of the house and benefits from built-in storage over the stairs, a clever use of space.
BEDROOM FOUR 2.54m x 1.94m (8'4 x 6'4)
Currently used as a home office, this single bedroom looks out over the rear garden and enjoys a pleasant outlook.
BATHROOM
A light and bright room where tiled flooring, complementary part-tiled walls with a feature inset tile, and a smooth plastered ceiling with inset spotlights all combine to create a fresh, modern feel.
The white suite comprises a panel-enclosed bath with mixer taps and a separate thermostatic shower over, a wash basin with cupboard under, and a low-level WC with concealed cistern.
OUTSIDE
FRONT GARDEN
A long driveway provides parking and leads to the detached garage, with a path from here taking you to the front door.
GARAGE 4.94m x 2.49m (16'2 x 8'2)
The garage benefits from an up-and-over door, power connected and eaves storage.
REAR GARDEN
Measuring approximately 72' in depth, the rear garden opens with a patio area and the remainder is principally lawn.
The garden enjoys a fabulous southerly aspect, meaning it commands sunshine for the majority of the day, a much sought-after feature.
To the rear corner is a shed, which we understand will remain with the property, and a personal door provides access directly into the garage.
Council Tax
Basildon Council, Band E
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.
