Enjoying far-reaching rear views across the Sunnymede Valley and being just a 10-minute walk from the 165-acre Norsey Woods Nature Reserve, this spacious 1,041 sq ft, Three Bedroom House combines an excellent location with great potential.
Commuters will appreciate the convenient footpath to Hillway giving easy access to Billericay Station - around a comfortable one-mile walk away, while Sunnymede Infant & Junior Schools, local shops (including a little convenience store) can all be reached on foot within 3 minutes using the nifty footpath 'through the houses', cutting out walking the length of the winding Salesbury Drive
Although there is no allocated parking, the current owners park two cars in the nearby residents' parking area, with unrestricted parking on Hillway just a minute's stroll away.
Inside, the well-planned accommodation includes a generous Lounge/Diner with an open Fireplace and great views, a versatile Family Room opening onto the garden, and a well-equipped kitchen that offers exciting scope to create a more contemporary open-plan layout with the lounge if desired.
Upstairs are three excellent bedrooms, two of them at the rear enjoying those lovely valley views, together with a spacious bathroom and separate WC that could easily be combined into one large family bathroom.
Outside, the 48ft West facing garden is a genuine sun trap, while the powered outbuilding provides useful storage or workshop space.
The Accommodation in more detail:
HALL 9ft x 5ft 3' (2.74m x 1.60m)
The measurements are of just the initial hall area, excluding the wide corridor that runs past the kitchen before opening up again by the stairs and the Family Room.
Plenty of light floods in through the large front-facing window and the part-glazed front door.
A hand-built double cupboard provides handy storage for shoes.
WALK-IN STORE CUPBOARD 5ft 10' x 4ft 5' (1.78m x 1.35m)
With a 5ft (1.52m) high door opening through to the large understairs cupboard, this is an excellent storage facility that we have also seen (in other houses) converted into utility rooms or even a small study.
Mounted on the right-hand wall are the electrical consumer unit, electricity meter and gas meter, and, as expected, there is both lighting and power.
An adaptable and versatile little room.
LOUNGE/DINER 18ft 2' x 10ft 10' (5.54m x 3.30m)
Still retaining its original open fireplace and with a large rear-facing bay window flooding the room with west-facing sunshine, while also enjoying those far-reaching views.
FAMILY ROOM 15ft 6' x 8ft 6' (4.72m x 2.59m)
Another very versatile room that would be equally at home as a dining room or perhaps a dual-purpose study/sitting room.
Being west-facing, it is bathed in natural light through the rear set of double doors with adjacent sidelights, together with the Perspex roof.
KITCHEN 10ft 10' x 10ft 4' (3.30m x 3.15m)
Fitted with a range of light blue 'tongue-and-groove' effect kitchen units, complemented by attractive white oak-effect textured worktops and incorporating a five-ring Range Cooker, which will be remaining.
There are also spaces for the usual appliances (washing machine, tumble dryer and full-height fridge/freezer)
Hidden within one of the high-level units is the Worcester boiler serving the gas central heating and hot water.
Between the kitchen and the lounge is a large 5ft 10' x 3ft 2' (1.78m x 0.97m) serving hatch, with the wall below believed to be a simple plasterboard partition, making it relatively straightforward to remove, should you wish to create a more open-plan layout.
Stairs from Hall too:
1st FLOOR LANDING
With a pull-down loft hatch providing access to the roof space.
MASTER BEDROOM 14ft 10' x 11ft (4.52m x 3.35m)
A generously sized rear-facing double bedroom enjoying an exceptional view across the Sunnymede Valley, with the treeline of Norsey Woods to the right, Mill Meadows to the left, and the top of Hillside Road together with the buildings on Chapel Street clearly visible on the distant horizon.
BEDROOM TWO 10ft 6' x 10ft 5' (3.20m x 3.18m)
A fine size front-facing double bedroom.
BEDROOM THREE 9ft 1' x 7ft 6' (2.77m x 2.29m)
A rear-facing bedroom that is large enough to accommodate a double bed.
Again, being rear-facing, it enjoys the same exceptional views as the Master Bedroom.
BATHROOM 7ft 8' x 7ft (2.34m x 2.13m)
A good size bathroom with ample space for a double-ended bath as well as a large wall-mounted basin.
The wide front-facing window provides plenty of natural light, and there is also a tall chrome towel radiator.
Note: Although there is a separate WC Room, there is clearly enough room to install a WC here as well.
SEPARATE WC ROOM 5ft 1' x 2ft 5' (1.55m x 0.74m)
Fitted with a close-coupled WC and a rear-facing window providing natural light.
Note: The basin in the adjoining BATHROOM is literally on the opposite side of the right-hand wall, making it relatively easy to extend the plumbing and install a small hand basin in this room, just to the right as you enter.
Alternatively, it would be fairly straightforward to combine both rooms into one larger bathroom measuring approximately 9ft 8' x 7ft 8' (2.95m x 2.34m) - a superb-sized bathroom with ample room for both a bath and a separate shower.
GARDEN
Almost perfectly west-facing, the garden enjoys sunshine throughout the afternoon and well into the evening perfect for watching the sun set in the distance.
A real sun trap, the garden features an initial patio and lawn, with steps leading down to a lower area covered in bark, ideal as a children's play area and currently home to the owners' shed.
SHED 9ft x 7ft 6' (2.74m x 2.29m)
With its own separate consumer unit, a couple of double power sockets and two strip lights.
It should be noted that the garden is elevated above the surrounding Sunnymede Valley and, were the tall ash tree and mature shrubs behind the shed to be removed, it would enjoy a glorious uninterrupted view across the valley.
Council Tax
Basildon Council, Band C
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.
