- Corner Position With Good-Sized Driveway Popular Sunnymede Area
- Amtico Wood-Effect Flooring Throughout Every Room In The House
- Kitchen With White Quartz Worktops & Built-In Double Oven
- Lounge With Designer Radiator, Wall Lights & Feature Electric Fire
- Conservatory With Decking & Unexpectedly Pleasant Distant Views
- Both Bedrooms Are Excellent Doubles With Amtico Flooring
- Brand New Shower Room With Brass Fittings & Overhead Drench Shower
- South-Facing Rear Garden With Side Patio, Deck & Storage Shed
- Close To Local Shops, Primary School & Open Land For Walks
As the photos clearly show, a programme of carefully considered internal upgrades has truly transformed this corner-positioned terraced house, which sits on a good-sized driveway within the popular Sunnymede area of Billericay, close to everyday local shops, a primary school and open land for tranquil walks.
All of the improvements have been completed quite recently and to a high standard throughout. New black power sockets, switches and internal doors feature consistently across the home, whilst wood-style antique Amtico flooring flows seamlessly from the entrance porch, through the hallway and across both ground floor rooms and the conservatory, creating a cohesive and impressively stylish finish that makes an immediate impact.
The kitchen, positioned to the front of the house, offers plenty of space for a dining table and chairs, a handy recessed area for freestanding appliances and generous space beneath the quartz worktops for a washing machine, tumble dryer and dishwasher.
Across the rear of the house, the lounge, complete with wall lights, a designer panel radiator and a feature fire surround with electric fire, has double doors opening into the conservatory, where the Amtico flooring continues and is complemented by a vertical electric designer radiator. From this space, and from the decking outside, there are unexpectedly pleasant distant views.
Upstairs, both bedrooms are excellent doubles, also enjoying Amtico flooring, whilst the newly completed shower room has been refitted with well-chosen tiles, a white suite with brass tap furniture and an overhead drench shower, a room that feels as close to brand new as it is possible to get.
All in all, this is a home that will impress from the very moment you step inside.
PORCH
A painted external door with stained glass panels opens into this welcoming initial porch, where a wall light and plenty of space for shoes make for a very practical and characterful entrance.
A composite inner door then opens through to the hallway beyond.
HALLWAY
Here is your first real glimpse of what this house has in store, and it does not disappoint.
The wood-effect Amtico flooring is professionally fitted and immediately sets the tone, whilst the staircase rises neatly to the first floor with a useful under-stairs cupboard alongside, and doors opening to both the kitchen and lounge.
KITCHEN/DINER 4.5m x 2.92m 14'9 x 9'6)
Positioned to the front of the house, this good-sized room features dark-painted units with white quartz worktops incorporating a single drainer sink unit with mixer tap, a built-in double oven, a gas hob with cooker hood over and spaces for a washing machine, tumble dryer and dishwasher.
A handy recessed area is perfectly suited to a large freestanding fridge freezer, and there is ample space remaining for a dining table and chairs, a practical and well-planned room.
LIVING ROOM 4.56m x 3.51m (14'11 x 11'6)
The Amtico flooring flows seamlessly from the hallway into this stylishly finished lounge, where designer radiators and built-in cupboards either side of the fireplace, housing an electric fire, create a warm and considered interior.
Four wall light points add a subtle and atmospheric touch, whilst double doors open through to the conservatory beyond.
CONSERVATORY 4.55m x 2.69m (14'11 x 8'9)
This good sized uPVC conservatory with double doors opening onto the deck is generally considered a seasonal space, but with an additional electric radiator the usable season can certainly be extended, and those pleasant distant views from here make it well worth spending time in whatever the weather.
FIRST FLOOR LANDING
Carpeted stairs with a black-painted balustrade rise to the first floor, where Amtico flooring continues throughout.
A side-facing window and a radiator with an ornate cover sit alongside a feature wood strip wall, a stylish detail that carries the interior design upstairs.
Matching Mexicana panel doors with black handles open to both bedrooms and the shower room.
BEDROOM ONE 4.67m x 3.54m (15'3 x 11'7)
Positioned to the rear of the house, this spacious double bedroom enjoys lovely distant views and a real feeling of space enhanced further by a large mirror-fronted wardrobe.
BEDROOM TWO 3.82m x 2.86m (12'6 x 9'4)
Another excellent double bedroom, again featuring the black power points and light switches that tie so neatly with the black door furniture found consistently throughout this home, a small but very effective design detail.
SHOWER ROOM
Only recently completed and feeling very much like new, this impressive shower room features large floor and wall tiles with attractive brass trim throughout.
The three-piece suite comprises a push-button WC, a wall-mounted vanity unit with quartz top and a counter-mounted wash basin with mixer taps, plus a generously sized walk-in low-profile shower with hand attachment and drench head.
Particularly worth noting is that the shower controls are positioned outside the cubicle, allowing you to turn it on and warm it up before stepping in, a small detail that makes a real daily difference.
Brass heated towel rail, further brass accessories, an LED backlit mirror and a side window providing good natural light complete what is a very special room.
OUTSIDE
FRONT
The property sits behind a good-sized driveway with a side path leading up to the front door.
REAR GARDEN
Facing in a preferred southerly direction, this well-proportioned garden features a side patio and a rear deck, with the remainder principally laid to lawn and a shed to the rear corner providing useful storage.
And whilst here take a moment to pause and enjoy the view. It really is worth it.
Council Tax
Basildon Council, Band C
Notice
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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.
