A much loved 3 Bedroom Semi bought brand new by the current Owners 50 years ago (a good advert for the area in itself), with a sunny Due South facing Garden, 2-Car Drive and Garage, and Mill Meadows Nature Reserve literally just a minute walk away!
The location is a real highlight. A footpath entrance to Mill Meadows Nature Reserve is just a one-minute walk away, ideal for dog walking, exercise and enjoying the outdoors.
South Green's Grange Road parade of shops is approximately 0.3 mile away, with a handy footpath getting you there is only 5 or 6 minutes. Two local primary schools are around 0.5 mile and 0.8 mile away, while Billericay High Street is approximately a 26-minute walk.
Inside, the accommodation includes a light and bright 17ft Kitchen/Diner with generous glazing, patio doors, cream units, solid wood worktops, a farmhouse-style ceramic twin bowl sink, integrated appliances and a two-seat breakfast bar. There is also a separate Lounge with a Limestone Fireplace, and the Bathroom has been refitted as a swish Shower Room.
Outside, the Garden is a genuine suntrap, featuring a large Indian sandstone patio and mature planting and the Garage houses the three year old Worcester Boiler.
Further benefits include cavity wall insulation and modern windows all combining to make this a well-located and much-loved home with plenty to recommend it.
The Accommodation in more detail:
ENTRANCE HALL 13ft 6" x 5ft 10" (4.11m x 1.78m)
A welcoming entrance with the glazing to the front door and side-light windows bringing plenty of natural light into the hall.
The attractive 'Cherrywood' flooring continues into the lounge.
A useful under-stairs cupboard houses the modern consumer unit and benefits from an automatic light. Of particular note, when the consumer unit was replaced, an emergency separate socket was installed, meaning that should the consumer unit ever trip and be off until an electrician attends, this individual socket will remain operational a thoughtful and practical addition.
LOUNGE 12ft 9" x 10ft 8" (3.89m x 3.25m)
A comfortable reception room with the front-facing window fitted with attractive plantation shutters and the Limestone Fireplace incorporating an inset electric fire.
A wide 5ft (1.52m) opening leads through to:
KITCHEN/DINER 16ft 10" x 10ft 9" (5.13m x 3.28m)
A particularly generous and wonderfully light room, fitted with a range of cream-coloured units complemented by solid wood worktops and an attractive double-bowl white ceramic 'apron-front' farmhouse sink. A useful peninsula unit incorporates a two-seat breakfast bar.
There is a built-in black glass electric hob with extractor hood over, multi-function oven with matching microwave above, integrated fridge/freezer, dishwasher and washing machine.
The generous glazing, including patio doors and a rear door, makes this a notably bright and airy room with a pleasant outlook over the garden.
Stairs rise from the Hall to:
FIRST FLOOR LANDING
A side window provides natural light, while a loft hatch gives easy access to the roof space.
Attractive wood-effect laminate flooring continues into all three bedrooms.
MASTER BEDROOM 12ft 7" x 10ft (3.84m x 3.05m)
A lovely-sized main bedroom, with the measurements excluding the built-in airing cupboard measuring approximately 3'3" x 2' (1m x 0.6m).
The front-facing window is also fitted with elegant plantation shutters.
BEDROOM TWO 11ft 7" x 10ft 4" (3.53m x 3.15m)
A good-sized double bedroom with measurements including the 7ft 2" (2.18m) wide recess housing the wardrobe with mirror-fronted sliding triple doors.
This bedroom enjoys a pleasant, slightly elevated outlook.
BEDROOM THREE 9ft 4" narrowing to 6ft 4" x 6ft 6" (2.84m > 1.93m x 1.98m)
A versatile third bedroom with front-facing window fitted with plantation shutters, together with a useful built-in shelved cupboard positioned over the stairs.
BATHROOM 6ft 2" x 6ft 2" (1.88m x 1.88m)
A neatly proportioned, almost perfectly square room which has been refitted as a modern and user-friendly Shower Room.
Features include a chrome exposed thermostatic dual-control shower with distinctive starburst-style overhead shower head and matching pencil hand shower, together with a full-width combination vanity/storage unit providing excellent storage.
Attractive light grey wall tiling is complemented by a darker grey anti-slip tiled floor, while a high-level window provides plenty of natural light.
GARDEN
A real SUNTRAP, being DUE SOUTH-FACING and therefore perfectly positioned to enjoy the sunshine throughout the day.
The garden features a large Indian sandstone patio and mature planting, including an attractive palm tree.
The patio continues around the side of the house and behind the garage, where a courtesy door provides direct access into the garage particularly handy when bringing shopping or garden equipment in and out.
There are two PIR security lights together with a further external light.
DRIVEWAY
A TWO-CAR DRIVEWAY provides off-road parking to the front of the property.
GARAGE 16ft 1" x 8ft 2" (4.90m x 2.49m)
A particularly useful garage with a remote controlled roller door, rear UPVC lockable courtesy door and its own separate consumer unit.
There are two strip lights together with power sockets, making this a useful space for storage, hobbies or workshop use.
A 3-year-old Worcester Greenstar Ri boiler is wall mounted within the garage, while the gas meter is also located here.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The property benefits from CAVITY WALL INSULATION.
Council Tax
Basildon Council, Band D
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.
