Handsomely proportioned, this Four Bedroom Detached House boasting a Detached Double Garage, is the second house in, on the popular Badgers Mount Development, a very pleasant small estate built in 1982, just off Outwood Common Road and backing directly onto open countryside. Within close proximity are the 175 acres of ancient woodland known as Norsey Woods, with local shops and Sunnymede Infants & Primary Schools (both with good OFSTED Reports) within walking distance too.
Decorated to a contemporary neutral colour palette, this smart and stylish home is very well presented with the accommodation comprising a good size Hall with a Utility Room-through-to ground floor WC Room, 17ft Lounge with a big window enjoying far reaching views, lovely 21ft x 12ft 6" Kitchen/Diner with 'Oak Shaker' style units topped with Granite worktops, a very good size Study, 14ft Master Bedroom with a new En-suite Shower Room and another newly refitted Family Bathroom.
The 36ft x 42ft Garden enjoys a woodland outlook with great country views over the chimney pots available from the rear bedrooms.
The Accommodation
Blending style with security, the grey wood grain on the outside/white wood grain on the inside, composite Front Door leads through to:
HALL
Attractive half height white painted moulded panelling gives a touch of grandeur and blends well with the Farrow & Ball 'Skimming Stone' grey walls above and new grey carpet bellow.
Latticework double doors have been fitted to the discreet understairs storage cupboard and a front facing window brings in additional light, as well as the side light window and glazing within the front door.
The ceiling has a smooth plastered finish with coving - as found throughout the ground floor.
LOUNGE 17ft 4" x 13ft 9" (5.28m x 4.19)
An elegant and well-proportioned Lounge with the eyes drawn to the large, rear facing window, which enjoys a very pleasant 'green' outlook over the Garden and the surrounding Gardens beyond.
A further focal point is the Limestone Fireplace, which has an inset electric fire.
KITCHEN/DINER 21ft x 12ft 6" (6.4m x 3.8m)
The original dining room and kitchen knocked into one big family friendly heart-of-the-home kitchen. Two windows provide plenty of light and a set of glazed double doors open to the adjoining Lounge with a further door from the hall in the dining area - a nice circular flow.
A combination of warm 'Shaker style' Oak effect kitchen units, 'Star Galaxy' Granite worktops and the natural beauty of Travertine floor tiling, creates a luxurious feel with the 3ft (900mm) wide, projecting peninsular unit/breakfast bar giving you storage space, work space and the perfect place to socialise.
Specification includes an undermounted Butler sink, snazzy swing out corner storage unit, AEG integrated Dishwasher and a stainless steel Chimney Extractor Hood over the Range Cooker which is available by separate negotiation. (Range with 5 ring gas hob, double ovens, grill and pan drawer).
There is also a recess for an American Fridge/Freezer and a matching cupboard opens to reveal the new Boiler.
STUDY 10ft 5" x 6ft 7" (3.17m x 2.01m)
A nicely decorated home office with a front facing window.
UTILITY 6ft 7" x 3ft 9" (2.01m x 1.14m)
Simply fitted with an eye level double cupboard above a worktop with space below for the washing machine. Opposite a built-in cupboard with double doors opens to reveal the electric consumer unit.
Door through to:
GROUND FLOOR WC ROOM
Lovely dark grey ceramic tiling in the Utility flows through in and runs halfway of the walls too, complementing the white Vanity unit with its top mounted basin and the back-to-wall WC.
There is also a chrome towel radiator and a side facing window for natural light.
1st FLOOR LANDING
A spacious Landing, well lit by a front facing window with a fitted blind and with a built-in airing cupboard housing the hot water cylinder. Looking up we see the ceiling hatch providing access to the large loft
MASTER BEDROOM 14ft x 10ft 8" (4.27m x 3.25m)
A notably spacious bedroom with a fabulous far-reaching view through the rear facing window.
ENSUITE 8ft 6" x 5ft 1" (2.59m x 1.55m)
Recently refitted and beautifully appointed with contemporary dark grey ceramic tiling and a full width white gloss 'Combination' unit across the far wall incorporating a back-to-wall WC and a semi-recessed basin.
The large Shower features a stylish chrome 'Rainhead' showerhead along with a further handset too, with finishing specification including a stainless steel shaver/toothbrush socket, chrome towel radiator and a side facing window for natural light.
BEDROOM TWO 13ft 9 x 12ft 6" (4.19m x 3.81m)
Another excellent size double bedroom and again another 'Room with a View', the treescape to the left providing an ever changing year round view.
Along the far wall, a custom made run of 4.5 double wardrobes with grey 'Shaker' style doors, provide a superb storage facility.
BEDROOM THREE 12ft 7" Max x 6ft 9" (12.7m x 2.06m)
Yet another room enjoying a great outlook. This one with far-reaching country views.
BEDROOM FOUR 10ft 5 x 6ft 7" (3.17m x 2.01m)
Right over the study so the same size, this is another well decorated room, this one with a fitted blind to the front facing window.
BATHROOM
Stylish and contemporary, this newly refitted bathroom sees a confection of gorgeous dark grey ceramic tiling, a white suite incorporating a White Gloss Freestanding Vanity unit and a Showerbath with an extra wide showering area, a tall chrome towel radiator, Shaver/Toothbrush socket and a rather swish light up mirror with digital clock!
There's a front facing obscure glass window and chrome towel radiator too.
GARAGE 18ft 2" x 18ft 2" (5.54m x 5.54m)
A perfectly square Garage with twin up and over doors, a upvc side window and rear courtesy door.
A garage conversion is a great way to add living space and we wonder as it's so close to the house (3ft/900mm away from the front wall) it could be quite easy to link the two up - subject to local authority approval and construction suitability, of course.
FRONT
The front drive takes three cars with ease and the adjacent lawn and block paved path gives additional kerbside appeal.
REAR GARDEN
A large stretch of sandstone Patio provides plenty of room for al-fresco dining and entertaining, with steps leading down to the main lawn and a second 'late evening' Sun Trap Patio sitting below the Silver Birch.
There is access on both sides back round to the front and fitted to the rear wall is an external tap and an outside power socket.
Council Tax
Basildon Council, Band F
Notice
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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.
