Outwood Common Road, Billericay

OIEO £350,000 - New Instruction


A superb development project that's bursting with potential!

Well priced for a quick sale, this 3 Bedroom Semi has no central heating and is in need of a full programme of refurbishment, however this is more than outweighed by its low price and potential.

Similar semi's in the area in just average to good condition have been achieving well over £400,000, so this one makes a sensible purchase.

Just up the road are local shops which overlook 'Outwood Common', and a few yards further (4 to 5 minute walk in all) is Sunnymede Primary School (formally Infants and Junior Schools, as of Christmas now a primary) which enjoys a 'Good' OFSTED Report.

Using the Daines Road/Crown Road shortcut the Station is walkable - a good 20-25 minutes we'd allow for.


Our honest 'in a nutshell' bullet points are as follows:

. The Garage is literally falling to bits and unusable. But the hardstanding will make a perfect base for a Garden Outbuilding or Patio area.

. It is a shared drive so at present there is zero off street parking until the Front Garden is converted to a proper Drive. We would knock down the rest of the garage first thing to provide temporary parking up there, although the front lawn itself could probably make-do quite well with matting down.

. The original old warm air boiler is still in a cupboard in the hall, hidden behind a low level door. We think this could be removed and a full height door put in making a more useable full height store cupboard.

. The front-to-back Lounge/Diner is a nice size and has a feature Fireplace presently with a gas fire installed, which we suspect could be removed in favour of a real fire or Wood burner.

. The Galley style Kitchen needs refitting. This could be an opportunity to knock down the wall between the kitchen and the dining area at the end of the Lounge/Diner to create a more modern open plan affair.

. All three bedrooms are pretty good sizes. Even the third bedroom is 8ft x 8ft. The main two are both good size doubles.

. The bathroom is an unfinished refit. There is a modern suite installed, but the walls need tiling.

. We would envisage the electrics need attention. At the very least a new consumer unit (fuse board).


HALL

With an understairs cupboard as well as the cupboard housing the old warm air boiler.


LOUNGE/DINER 24ft x 11ft 8" max (7.32m x 3.55m)

Front-to-back and with a Gas Fire. The chimney appears to be intact, so we presume there is the potential for an open fire/wood burning stove.


KITCHEN 11ft 1" x 8ft 5"

Two windows and a glazed 'back door' mean it's very light and bright.

We noted a freestanding Cooker (gas hob) and under the sink is a 'CORVEC Britony II A' instantaneous gas fired multipoint water heater (not tested as not used for years).n

OF NOTE: The Owner is in the process of obtaining quotes to put in Instant Hot Water Heaters in the Kitchen and Bathroom or a gas boiler in the understairs cupboard.


1st FLOOR LANDING

With a built in cupboard.


MASTER BEDROOM 12ft 10" x 11ft 4" (3.9m x 3.45m)

The big window floods this large double bedroom with light.


BEDROOM TWO 11ft 2" x 9ft 3" (3.4m x 2.82m)

Another good sized double bedroom with a large rear facing window for maximum light.


BEDROOM THREE 8ft 4" x 8ft (2.55m x 2.44m)

Rear facing bedroom.


BATHROOM 7ft 7" narrowing to 5ft 7" x 6ft (2,3m > 1.7m x 1.83m)

An unfinished project, the suite is in, but it needs tiling, new flooring and the ceiling re-plastered.


GARDEN

Next door to the right is the template to go by. They have levelled out more of the garden and put in an elevated Garden Cabin at the top - an excellent use of space.



Council Tax
Basildon Council, Band C

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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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Garden/Outside Space Yes
Parking No
Garage No

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