- Improved Three-Bedroom Detached Home 6 Minutes From High Street
- Moments Away From Open Fields
- En-Suite Shower Room
- Stylishly Presented With a Neutral Decor Running Throughout
- Full Width Kitchen Diner With Double Doors Opening to The Garden
- Open Plan Ground Floor Accommodation
- Gas Radiator Heating With Combi Boiler
- Landscaped Garden with Two Porcelain Tiled Patio Areas
- Attached Garage
- No Onward Chain
Positioned just moments away from open fields, as well as being just a six-minute walk from the High Street, this three-bedroom detached home provides you with all the convenience of a suburban location with the extra appeal of added countryside.
Over recent years, the owner who is offering no onward chain, has undertaken a series of improvements and upgrades within the house to improve both its efficiency and lifestyle aesthetics.
Stylishly presented with a neutral decor running throughout, this home now displays a more open plan living arrangement downstairs, which boasts a full width kitchen diner enjoying an adjoining living space and double doors opening to the garden, the perfect space for entertaining. Upstairs each of the three bedrooms are a generous in size and both the en-suite shower room and bathroom have recently been improved.
Thoughtful improvements have continued outside, and these include a landscaped garden with two porcelain tiled patio areas and a detached garage where you will find the replacement Combi boiler together with space and plumbing for a washing machine.
This property was built circa 1995 on what is known as The Quilters development, a popular area for the London commuter being just 0.9 miles from the station. In addition, if education is of priority, families may be interested to know the property is just a few minutes' walk from Quilter's Infants and Primary schools, both enjoying outstanding OFSTED reports plus Billericay Secondary School.
As mentioned, the house is a moment's walk away from open countryside where dog owners and those who enjoy the great outdoors can quickly escape from suburbia!
Undoubtedly a home and location that will serve you well for many years to come.
ACCOMODATION AS FOLLOWS..
HALLWAY
The side window and UPVC glazed entrance door ensures this hallway is a light and bright entrance, whilst wood style laminate flooring, gives it that practical edge, which is often so needed during the winter months.
There is a carpeted stairs rises to the first floor, a smart Nest learning thermostat, and a door that opens to the lounge.
LOUNGE 4.66 m x 3.91 m (15'3 x 12 10)
The light-coloured wood style laminate flooring extends into the lounge and enhances the floor space.
In addition to the front facing window, the modern feel is enhanced further by neutral décor, a smooth plastered ceiling with inset spotlights and two wall lights.
There is also a large storage cupboard under the stairs and an open access into the kitchen/diner.
KITCHEN DINER 4.96 m x 3.35 m (16'3 x 11 )
The wood style laminate flooring flows seamlessly into this open plan living area and subtly contrasts with the recently fitted light grey kitchen cabinets, which are topped by a smart looking quartz effect laminate worktop.
Sitting just under the rear kitchen window is a stainless-steel sink with a swan neck mixer tap that incorporates a handy pull out Flexi hose.
Built within the units is an electric oven, an induction hob with a glass trimmed cooker hood above and a built-in microwave. There is a designated enclosure for a larder fridge freezer and plumbing available for a dishwasher.
Again, the ceiling is smooth plastered with inset down lighters, and you will notice with the original dividing wall between the kitchen and dining room now removed, there is a generous amount of space for dining table sitting just inside the double doors that open onto the garden and more importantly entertaining.
LANDING
The light and bright feeling together with the neutral decor continues onto the first floor, again a side gives natural light, there are smooth ceilings with inset down lighters and an access point to the sizeable loft space.
The neutral-coloured carpet balances nicely with the white painted balustrades and handrail and newel post.
With the old gas boiler having been replaced by a more efficient Combi, the airing cupboard now provides a generous space for laundry while doors open to each of the bedrooms and bathroom.
BEDROOM ONE 3.82 m x 2.89 m (12'6 x 9 6)
Positioned to the rear of the house, the bedroom window affords a present outlook and there is a door opening to the ensuite shower room.
ENSUITE SHOWER ROOM
Fitted with a white suite, this handy shower room, with a stylish herringbone bone style floor, consists of a low-level WC, a pedestal wash basin with mixer taps and a walk-in shower cubicle with a drench head shower.
BEDROOM TWO 3.32 m x 2.89 m (10'11 x 9 6)
The second double room is positioned to the front of the house and also has inset down lighters.
To one corner is a freestanding mirror fronted wardrobe unit which we understand can remain.
BEDROOM THREE 2.8 m x 1.97 m (9'2 x 6 5)
The third bedroom continues the neutral theme and also has inset down lighters.
As you can see from the floorplan this bedroom has a regular shape and is of a generous size.
You will also notice with this being used as a dedicated dressing room, there is a made to measure' freestanding wardrobe and the owners are happy to leave the wardrobes in situ.
BATHROOM
The bathroom has a front facing window, inset down lighters and extractor fan.
Again the flooring is a stylish herringbone design and the walls have an equally stylish panelling, the fitted white suite consists of a low-level WC, a wash basin and a panel enclosed shower bath with a glass screen, mixer taps and a hand shower attachment.
OUTSIDE
FRONT
The property is situated within a mews setting and has a low maintenance granite chipped garden area plus a driveway which provides parking and access to the attached garage.
GARAGE 5.43 m x 2.49 m (17'2 x 8 2)
Attached to the house, this garage with a pitched roof compliments house, while an up and over door gives access. Inside you have a handy eaves storage space, power and light connected and a convenience door leading out to the garden.
In addition, there is the replacement gas Combi boiler and plumbing for a washing machine.
REAR GARDEN
This garden measures approx. 38' in depth has both a welcoming feel and stylish look to it.
Being thoughtfully planned, you have an immediate porcelain patio area extending across the full width of the house, beyond this you have a lawn area and then a second porcelain patio area that flanks the raised shrub bed which is enclosed by sleepers and in turn stretches across the rear boundary.
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.
