- Preferred 'Quiet End' Of Perry Street
- Buttsbury Primary & Mayflower Secondary School Catchment Area
- Just Over A Mile From The Station Via Lake Meadows or Stock Road and the 300 Bus Route
- Four Bedrooms All Practical Doubles If Required
- Refitted Bathroom With Bath & Separate Drench-Head Shower
- Lounge With Double Doors Opening Onto Westerly Rear Garden
- Washer & Tumble Dryer Space Within Clever Kitchen Utility Section
- Brick-Paved Drive With Single Garage Offering Conversion Potential
- Westerly Facing Garden
Positioned within the preferred ' Quiet End' of Perry Street, this four-bedroom semi-detached house will be a very rewarding purchase for a family looking to settle within a well-regarded residential area. The location is popular for its proximity to Buttsbury Primary School and Mayflower Secondary School, and for those commuting, via footpaths through Lake Meadows or Stock Road and the frequent 300 Bus, the station is just over a mile away.
All four bedrooms in this style of house are practical and usable spaces, each capable of accommodating a double bed if required, a flexible arrangement that will suit a wide range of family needs. The refitted bathroom is a further highlight, incorporating a bath with a separate shower unit and drench head.
Downstairs, a central hallway leads to the downstairs WC, dining room and lounge. It is also worth noting that many similar properties have converted the integral garage to provide further living accommodation, sometimes a fifth bedroom or guest room, subject to the usual consents, making this a home with real long-term potential.
The lounge benefits from double doors opening onto the garden, whilst the kitchen to the rear also overlooks the garden and offers a good range of wood-fronted cabinets incorporating a built in fridge freezer, dishwasher, cooker and spaces for a washing machine and tumble dryer, a practical and well-equipped space with everything a busy family could need.
Sitting on the western side of the road, the house enjoys the favourable westerly aspect, meaning the garden enjoys a good degree of sunshine from lunchtime right through to the evening, perfect for outdoor entertaining and making the most of those long summer evenings.
HALLWAY 5.03m x 1.81m (16'5 x 5'11)
A composite entrance door with a uPVC side panel brings natural light into this welcoming hallway, where stairs rise to the first floor and doors open to the lounge, dining room and downstairs WC.
DOWNSTAIRS WC
Squarish in design and well-presented cloakroom with a tiled floor and side window.
The white Ideal Standard suite comprises a wash basin with mixer tap and splashback and a push-button WC, complemented by a chrome heated towel rail a neat and practical space.
DINING ROOM 3.24m x 2.52m (10'7 x 8'3)
Positioned to the front of the house with a full-length front-facing window, this dining room is a bright space currently accommodating an eight-seater dining table with ease.
LOUNGE 4.68m x 4.42m (15'4 x 14'5)
With double doors and two side lights opening onto the garden, this naturally bright room takes full advantage of the westerly aspect the house commands.
A feature mock fireplace with electric fire creates a warm focal point, whilst two wall light points provide subtle and atmospheric evening lighting.
KITCHEN 4.4m x 2.42m (14'5 x 7'11)
Smooth ceilings with inset spotlights give this kitchen a modern and clean feel.
Wood-fronted cabinets and a generous amount of worktops are fitted across four areas of the kitchen, incorporating an inset one-and-a-half bowl sink unit, an integrated fridge freezer and dishwasher, plus space for a freestanding cooker, currently housing a rather smart Stoves stainless steel appliance.
To one corner, a cleverly organised utility area provides worktop space with room beneath for both a washing machine and tumble dryer.
LANDING
Loft access and doors leading to each of the four bedrooms and the bathroom.
BEDROOM ONE 4.09m x 3.44m (13'4 x 11'3)
A good-sized double bedroom with a handy recess providing the perfect space to help house a wardrobe.
BEDROOM TWO 3.34m x 2.46m (10'11 x 8')
A front-facing double room comfortably accommodating a good-sized double bed with bedside tables, whilst still leaving ample space for a wardrobe.
BEDROOM THREE 3.39m x 2.37m (11'1 x 7'9)
Currently used as a home office, this is another double bedroom with a handy recess where a wardrobe could sit discreetly, equally versatile as a bedroom or a dedicated workspace.
BEDROOM FOUR 3.08m x 2.51m (10'1 x 8'2)
Another pleasantly sized bedroom currently with a freestanding wardrobe, a practical and flexible space that will adapt to whatever is needed of it.
BATHROOM
Stylishly fitted with grey floor and wall tiles complementing a white Ideal Standard suite, this well-appointed bathroom comprises a push-button WC, a wash basin with mixer taps, a panel-enclosed bath with mixer taps and a separate thermostatic shower with an overhead drench head and hand attachment, complete with a fitted glass shower screen.
A side window, smooth plastered ceiling with inset spotlights and a chrome towel radiator complete what is a smart and modern room.
OUTSIDE
FRONT
A brick-paved driveway flanked by a lawned garden with established evergreens providing a pleasing degree of privacy leads to the integral garage.
GARAGE 5.34 x 2.46m (17'6 x 8')
An up-and-over door provides access to this useful garage, which benefits from a good ceiling height, a convenient side door and a wall-mounted boiler serving the central heating.
A practical and versatile space with real potential for conversion if required.
REAR GARDEN
Enjoying a westerly aspect, this garden benefits from a good degree of sunshine from lunchtime right through to the evening.
Commencing with a patio, the remainder is laid to lawn with shrub beds, and a shed to the rear corner provides useful storage.
An outside hot and cold tap is a very welcome addition, and brick paving extends down the side of the property where a door leads into the garage and a gate provides access to the front.
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.
