This spacious circa 1984 built, semi-detached 4 Bedroom (all doubles!) Family Home features attractive twin front dormer windows and an impressively generous 80ft (24m) garden perfect for families seeking both space and potential.
The well-proportioned accommodation comprises an Entrance Hall, a substantial Lounge, and a superb rear extension providing a huge Dining/Family Room ideal for family gatherings and entertaining.
The ground floor further benefits from a versatile converted garage space, currently utilised as a Playroom (ideal Home Office too) along with a useful Utility/Store Room, alongside a convenient ground floor WC.
Upstairs, the property boasts four genuine double size bedrooms, offering flexible accommodation for a growing family and complemented by a generous family bathroom featuring both a bath and a shower too.
Outside, the property enjoys a particularly appealing rear garden extending to approximately 80 feet (24m), offering wonderful scope for landscaping and outdoor living.
A front driveway provides off-street parking.
This substantial family home presents an excellent opportunity for buyers seeking a property with tremendous potential to create their dream home in a desirable location.
The property falls within the catchment of the Outstanding rated Buttsbury Primary School, with the 'Juniors' buildings at the beginning of the road and the 'Infants' just around the corner on Perry Street, and Mayflower High School is an easy walk too - in fact, all the schools under 10 minutes' walk away.
There are local shops on Stock Road for the daily essentials, and the High Street and Railway Station are within walking distance too, plus there's a great bus service too.
The Accommodation in more detail:
HALL
With wood flooring and a surprisingly huge walk-in storeroom used as a Utility.
GROUND FLOOR WC
Shiny white tiles to the walls along with the white suite and new taps, make for a very fresh and light ground floor loo.
LOUNGE 20ft x 12ft 5" (6.1m x 3.8m)
An excellent size with the focal point the Fireplace, currently with a freestanding electric stove.
DINING ROOM 18ft 9" x 12ft (5.7m x 3.7m)
Another huge reception room, bathed in light courtesy of the large skylight window and the wide set of bi-folding doors.
Attractive textured wood effect LVT Flooring, stylish designer radiator and a plethora of power sockets, along with two TV aerial sockets either end.
STUDY/PLAYROOM 12ft x 7ft 4" (3.7m x 2.2m)
What a versatile room this is.
Converted from the garage, with a front window, stylish radiator and a BT Openreach telephone socket.
KITCHEN 18ft 4" x 7ft 6" (5.6m x 2.3m)
With white fitted units topped with black granite effect worktops one end, plenty of room for kitchen table the other and underfloor heating.
The kitchen units incorporate Bosch built-in and integrated appliance comprising an Electric Hob, matching Multi-function Oven/Grill, Extractor Fan and an integrated Dishwasher.
The wall mounted Worcester Bosch Combi boiler is serviced every year and there's also a handy external door opening out to the side path.
HUGE WALK-IN UTILITY CUPBOARD 7ft 5" x 4ft 1" (2.3m x 1.2m)
With downlighting, vinyl flooring and provision for a stacked washing machine and tumble dryer along with a full height fridge/freezer.
There is the obvious potential for putting in actual kitchen units or of course it could equally make a great little study.
Stairs from Hall to:
1st FLOOR LANDING
The particularly large airing cupboard is now storage only, following the fitting of the combination boiler, and so it would be very straightforward to incorporate this within the actual bathroom, if one wanted a huge walk in shower too.
MASTER BEDROOM 12ft 7" x 10ft 5" (3.8m x 3.2m)
With new carpet, this is a lovely size rear double bedroom with a pleasant outlook over the gardens behind.
BEDROOM TWO 12ft 7" x 9ft 1" (3.8m x 2.8m)
Another very good size rear facing double bedroom.
BEDROOM THREE 11ft 8" x 9ft (3.6m x 2.7m)
Yet another fabulous size double bedroom, this one front facing.
BEDROOM FOUR 12ft x 7ft 9" (3.7m x 2.4m)
Yet another generous bedroom that will take a double bed with ease.
BATHROOM 9ft x 5ft 8" (2.7m x 1.7m)
A big bathroom with both a Bath and a separate Shower too.
The measurements exclude the recessed built-in Shower.
Note the new shower and taps and a good size side facing window brings in lots of natural light.
GARDEN
80ft (24m) long with a large shed at the end.
We noted a double power socket and external lighting too on the back wall of the extension as well as along the Patio. (And there is also an external double power socket at the front of the house too)
There is full access on one side there's also an outside tap.
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.
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Supply Type |
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Mains Supply |
| Gas |
Mains Supply |
| Water |
Mains Supply |
| Sewerage |
Mains Supply |
| Broadband |
Unknown |
| Telephone |
Unknown |
| Other Items |
Description |
| Heating |
Gas Central Heating |
| Garden/Outside Space |
Yes |
| Parking |
Yes |
| Garage |
No |
| Broadband Coverage |
Highest Available Download Speed |
Highest Available Upload Speed |
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2 Mbps |
0.3 Mbps |
| Superfast |
80 Mbps |
20 Mbps |
| Ultrafast |
10000 Mbps |
10000 Mbps |
| Mobile Coverage |
Indoor Voice |
Indoor Data |
Outdoor Voice |
Outdoor Data |
| EE |
Enhanced |
Enhanced |
Enhanced |
Enhanced |
| Three |
Likely |
Likely |
Enhanced |
Enhanced |
| O2 |
Enhanced |
Likely |
Enhanced |
Enhanced |
| Vodafone |
Likely |
Likely |
Enhanced |
Enhanced |
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