- Popular Norsey Farm Development Buttsbury & Mayflower Catchment
- Generous & Irregular Plot Approximately 50' x 50' Rear Garden
- Excellent Scope To Extend Over Garage & Connect To Main House
- Opportunity To Reconfigure Ground Floor Into Kitchen Diner Day Room
- Four Bedrooms Three Doubles & One Single
- En-Suite Shower Room and Bathroom
- Extended Kitchen With Double Oven, Microwave, Hob & Dishwasher
- Three Reception Rooms
- Detached Double Garage With Double-Width Driveway To Front
Norsey Farm has always been and remains one of the most popular developments on the north side of Billericay, sitting within the widely regarded catchment area for both the Buttsbury Junior Schools and Mayflower Secondary School a significant draw for families at any stage of their journey.
This four-bedroom home sits on a generous and irregular shaped plot and, whilst in need of some updating inside, the space around it offers excellent potential for further enlargement, to both the ground and first floors, with the added and rather exciting option of building over the garage and connecting this directly to the main house, subject to the usual consents.
Of course, if extending is not on the agenda, the property already benefits from past improvements that provide an excellent level of accommodation with generous room sizes throughout. The existing ground floor layout also lends itself beautifully to reconfiguration, most notably the opportunity to combine the dining room and extended kitchen breakfast room to create a much-desired open-plan kitchen diner day room.
Those past extensions have already delivered a double-sized kitchen breakfast room with a separate utility room, a study, a notably generous downstairs cloakroom with a double wardrobe, which could equally incorporate a shower if desired, a dining room adjoining the kitchen and a lounge with a small rear extension opening onto the garden. A ground floor that already has a great deal to offer, with even more potential to unlock.
On the first floor, three double bedrooms and a good size single bedroom are served by an en-suite shower room to the principal bedroom and a separate family bathroom, a very practical and well-considered arrangement.
The gardens are genuinely generous in size for this development, and please note, our photos have not been taken with a wide-angle lens. The rear garden really does measure approximately 50' deep and by 50' across the rear boundary, with additional space to the side currently laid as a brick-paved patio but an area that could equally provide the footprint for a future extension.
ACCOMMODATION AS FOLLOWS...
ENTRANCE HALL
Wood-style laminate flooring gives this entrance the practical edge needed for busy family life, with doors opening from here to each of the three reception rooms and the kitchen, a well-connected and free-flowing layout from the outset.
STUDY 2.97m x 2.09m (9'8 x 6'10)
The laminate flooring continues into this useful front-facing room, which with its good floor space and natural light is very much the ideal home office or quiet workspace, a room that will be valued more with every passing year.
GROUND FLOOR CLOAKROOM
Larger than it may first appear from the photos, this downstairs cloakroom has a low-level WC and wash basin with cupboard under, and also benefits from a freestanding double wardrobe providing a very practical home for coats, shoes and all the paraphernalia that comes with family life.
With some reconfiguration, there is also scope to incorporate a shower, effectively creating a ground floor shower room.
DINING ROOM 3.83m x 3.19m (12'6 x 10'5)
Positioned in the middle of the house, this dining room features an attractive glazed and brick partition to the hallway.
Adjoining the kitchen, it is the sort of room that is frequently opened up to create a kitchen diner, and with this property already boasting an extended kitchen, the resulting combined space would be particularly impressive.
LOUNGE 5.82m x 4.81m (19'1 x 15'9)
Positioned to the rear of the house, this naturally bright lounge benefits from rear-facing windows and a feature fireplace creating a warm and inviting focal point, a comfortable and well-proportioned room that enjoys a pleasant garden outlook.
KITCHEN/BREAKFAST ROOM 6.6m x 3.49m > 2.87m (21'7 x 11'6 > 9'5)
Extended to provide an impressive level of space, this room now has both front and rear-facing windows, flooding it with natural light throughout the day.
A practical range of units provides good storage and ample worktop space, incorporating a double oven, microwave, fridge, dishwasher and a four-ring gas hob.
Tiled flooring extends through the kitchen and into the adjoining utility room.
UTILITY ROOM 3.49m x 1.33m (11'6 x 4'4)
A very useful addition with a rear window, side door and spaces for a washing machine, tumble dryer and fridge freezer.
The gas boiler is also neatly positioned on the wall, everything practical and tucked away in one place.
LANDING
A well-proportioned and welcoming shaped landing with a side window, turned balustrades and neutral décor throughout.
Doors lead to each of the bedrooms and bathroom, and there is an airing cupboard with hot water tank plus loft access via a drop-down ladder.
BEDROOM ONE 3.82m x 3.36m (12'6 x 11'1)
A rear-facing principal bedroom with wardrobes fitted across one wall, incorporating a dressing table, providing excellent storage.
A door leads through to the en-suite shower room.
EN-SUITE SHOWER ROOM
This functional space could do with some updating and currently has a tiled floor and walls, a side window, a low-level WC, a wash basin with cupboard under and a shower cubicle with a Mira shower.
BEDROOM TWO 3.29m x 3m (10'9 x 9'10)
Positioned to the front of the house but with a southerly side window, this double bedroom also benefits from a range of fitted bedroom furniture, a very practical and well-utilised room.
BEDROOM THREE 3.47m x 2.48m (11'4 x 8'1)
Another good double room with a built-in cupboard over the stairs making excellent use of the available space.
BEDROOM FOUR 2.76m x 2.37m (9' x 7'9)
A rear-facing single bedroom of a good and usable size, with enough space for the required furniture. A versatile room that would work equally well as a home office or hobby space.
BATHROOM
With a side window and fully tiled walls, this bathroom is fitted in a classic Victorian style with a white suite comprising a low-level WC, a wash basin with vanity cupboard under and a bath with mixer taps and shower attachment.
OUTSIDE
FRONT
A double-width driveway provides generous off-street parking and access to the detached double garage.
DOUBLE GARAGE
An up and over door and side courtesy door gives access into this garage which has power and light connected and eaves storage space.
REAR GARDEN
Genuinely generous in size for this development, the rear garden measures approximately 50' deep by 50' across the rear boundary.
In addition to a brick-paved patio to the side of the house, which could equally serve as the footprint for a future extension, there is a further patio to the rear of the lounge doors, with the remainder being lawn with a number of mature trees.
Access can be gained from both sides of the property.
Council Tax
Basildon Council, Band F
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.
