Lots of subtle improvements over recent years have ensured this four bedroomed semi-detached home has remained cared and tastefully modern in appearance.
Having a generous 66' rear garden plus four double bedrooms ensures this style is a constantly popular design amongst families.
Being within the Buttsbury and Mayflower school area helps to ensure this location has remained sought after year after year, and this design of home with four double bedrooms adds to its popularity that this home enjoys.
As mentioned, various upgrades have taken place over the recent years, these have been well chosen and include a full width kitchen/diner with integrated appliances and space a large dining table, a refitted bathroom with a quality ceramic Duravit suite, a new Worcester boiler in the utility room, a custom fitted wall cabinet in the lounge, plus general redecoration, replacement of the skirting boards, architrave and staircase balustrades.
You will also notice the front drive affords a good amount of parking and together with the rear garden there is great potential for further enlargement in years to come.
All in all a family home that will have the potential to grow with you.
ACCOMMODATION AS FOLLOWS…
ENTRANCE PORCH
A UPVC entrance door and glazed side panel gives access into the small but handy ‘parcel' porch area which in turn has a door opening to the reception hall.
RECEPTION HALL
Enjoying a maximum but generous width of 1.79 m, this carpeted hallway enjoys a spacious feel as well having stairs with turned balustrade to the first floor, an understairs storage cupboard and doors opening to the lounge, kitchen/diner and the ground floor cloakroom.
CLOAKROOM
Another small but handy room, this one with a side window, a tiled floor and tiling walls has a low level wc and wall mounted hand basin.
KITCHEN/DINER 6.39 m x 4.08 m > to 3 m (20'9 x 13'4 > 9'8)
Being L-shaped in design this kitchen diner creates a natural space for both eating and cooking.
One side window and two front facing windows, including a bay window ensures a good level of natural light is enjoyed.
Stylish wood style Amtico flooring is fitted throughout this entertainment space and in turn complements the white gloss fronted units which also have three workspace areas. These units incorporate a built-in Zanussi double larder fridge, a Neff double oven, a four-ring hob, an integrated dishwasher and a stainless-steel sink unit.
In the far corner of the kitchen, there is also a door into the utility room.
UTILITY ROOM 2.42 m x 2.26 m. ( 7'9 x 7'4)
This utility has been created from a part conversion of the garage and has a continuation of the wood style Amtico flooring plus similar kitchen units and worktops to give continuity between both rooms.
There is space for a washing machine, a tumble dryer, a freezer and an additional fridge. Built within one of the cupboards is also a Worcester boiler and up above is a rather handy clothes rail.
LOUNGE 6.26 m x 3.94 m (20'5 x 12'9)
Positioned to the rear of the house with sliding doors to the conservatory and therefore looking onto the garden is the living room.
To one end wall of this room is a stylish tailor made fitted wall unit providing both good storage and display space, while to the adjacent side of the room you have a Portuguese Limestone fireplace.
CONSERVATORY 4.78 m x 2.79 m. (15'7 x 9'1)
This is of glazed construction with windows to each side and sliding patio doors opening to the rear patio. A mains fed radiator helps take the chill off during the warmer seasons of the year.
LANDING
This generously sized central landing with a full height stair well helps promote the feeling of spaciousness to this thoroughfare area which also has an airing cupboard, an access point to the loft and doors to each of the four double bedrooms and the bathroom.
BEDROOM ONE 3.43 m x 3.35 m (11'3 x 10'9)
Positioned to the front of the house, the main bedroom has a good range of recently fitted bedroom furniture which includes wardrobes, bedside tables and draw units.
BEDROOM TWO 3.44 m x 2.96 m (11'2 x 9'7)
This second bedroom is also at the front of the house and has stylish grey coloured laminate flooring.
BEDROOM THREE 3.28 m x 3.06 m. (10'7 x 10)
This again is a double bedroom, it has a wood style laminate floor and a rear window.
BEDROOM FOUR 3.31 m > 3.08 x 2.99 m ( 10'8 > 10'1 x 9'8)
As you can tell from the measurements, this is a really good size for a fourth bedroom, it could also accommodate a double bed but is used as a dressing room and of course, a home office!
BATHROOM
Having been refitted in a quality Duravit white suite, the fully tiled bathroom with under floor heating, has a modern stylish feel to it and now incorporates a wall mounted basin, a pushbutton WC and an inset panel enclosed bath with wall mounted taps, shower screen and separate shower unit.
OUTSIDE
FRONT
To the front of the house is a driveway providing parking for several vehicles as well as giving easy access to the remainder of the garage store and the path leading to the front door.
GARAGE STORE 2.51m x 2.41m (8'2 x 7'9)
Following the creation of the utility room, this garage/store with an up and over door and power and light connected, is still an equally handy external store, just a bit smaller!
REAR GARDEN
This garden measures approximately 66‘ (20 m) and commences with a patio area with a remainder being lawn with shrub beds, while to the rear boundary is a garden shed and an additional gravelled area with a pagola creating a relaxing seating area.
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.
