- Improved Four Bedroom Semi Detached
- Refitted Bathroom Now with Large Shower Room
- Stylish Hallway With Oak Veneer Doors & Composite Entrance Door
- Lounge With Limestone Surround & Electric Fire
- Dining Room With Sliding Patio Doors Opening To South-Facing Garden
- New Glow-Worm Combi Boiler Installed April This Year
- Replacement Windows, Composite Door, Patio Doors & Henderson Garage Door
- Sunnymede Area Approx. One Mile From Town & Train Station
- Brick-Paved Driveway With Ample Guest Parking Within The Road
Consistently one of the most popular designs of four-bedroom semi-detached house in the area, this particular example has been a well-cared-for and a much-loved family home for many years. Its worth noting every improvement and maintenance task carried out by professionals and it shows.
Four notable bedrooms are positioned upstairs, and the spacious landing, a much-admired feature of this design, serves them all well. Each bedroom benefits from built-in storage, and the refitted bathroom now boasts an exceptionally large walk-in corner shower cubicle in place of the original bath, a popular modern upgrade.
Downstairs, professionally decorated rooms are tidy and well-presented throughout, with smooth ceilings and inset spotlights giving a stylish, cared-for appearance. In addition, there is a downstairs WC, a front-to-back lounge diner with patio doors opening to the garden, and a refitted kitchen with integrated appliances that also leads onto the south-facing garden.
Over the years a comprehensive programme of improvements has been carried out, including windows, patio doors, external render boards, a replacement composite entrance door, a Henderson garage door and, most recently, a Glow-worm combi boiler installed in the loft in April of this year. Without doubt, a home where the hard work has genuinely been done.
Shalford Road sits within the popular Sunnymede area of Billericay, approximately one mile from the town centre and train station. What makes this stretch particularly appealing is that houses sit only on one side of the road, with an attractive wooded backdrop adjoining the railway line on the other, giving it a pleasant and surprisingly non-estate feel.
ACCOMMODATION AS FOLLOWS
HALLWAY
Fitted with a practical coconut mat and a smart composite entrance door installed in 2017, the hallway has been stylishly decorated with oak veneer doors throughout giving an excellent and immediately impressive first impression.
GROUND FLOOR WC
Compact, clean and finished to a high standard, this well-presented space features tiled floor, tiled walls, a front-facing window, a chrome heated towel rail and a Roca push-button WC plus corner wash basin with cupboard under.
LOUNGE 4.37m x 3.74m (14'3 x 12'3)
Overlooking the pleasant, wooded backdrop through the front-facing window, this inviting room features an electric fire with a limestone surround as its warm focal point. A folding door opens to the stairs, an oak veneer door leads through to the kitchen, and open access follows through to the dining room.
DINING ROOM 3.8m x 2.8m (12'5 x 9'2)
Sliding patio doors open onto the south-facing garden and flood this full-length living area with good natural light, a bright and sociable space perfectly suited to family life and entertaining alike.
KITCHEN 3.36m x 2.89m (11' x 9'6)
Looking out onto the garden via both a rear window and door, this well-planned kitchen has a tiled floor that nicely complements the carefully chosen units and worktops.
Built within the cabinetry is a Neff double oven, a Neff electric hob with cooker hood over, Neff Microwave, an integrated Neff dishwasher, washing machine and an integrated fridge and freezer. Both a very good level of storage and functionality, with a lovely garden outlook to enjoy.
LANDING
A popular feature of these homes, the open stairwell and generous proportions here do not disappoint.
There is a lovely feeling of space to this main thoroughfare, big enough for a train set or Scalextric!
Oak veneer doors open to each of the bedrooms and the bathroom.
BEDROOM ONE 3.7m x 3.44m (12'1 x 11'3)
Enjoying the pleasant, wooded outlook through a front-facing window, this principal bedroom has a good range of built-in wardrobes to one wall providing excellent storage.
BEDROOM TWO 3.34m x 2.94m (10'11 x 9'7)
Positioned to the rear, this well-proportioned room has a full-width window looking out over the south-facing garden, plus a built-in storage cupboard.
BEDROOM THREE 2.84m x 2.84m (9'3 x 9'3)
Another rear-facing room with the same pleasant garden outlook and a built-in storage cupboard.
BEDROOM FOUR 3.39m x 2.45m plus door recess (11'1 x 8' plus door recess)
Currently serving as a home office, this front-facing bedroom features wood laminate flooring and a built-in cupboard. Versatile enough to work equally well as a bedroom or a dedicated workspace.
BATHROOM
Re-fitted in 2022 and fully tiled throughout, this modern white suite comprises a large walk-in corner shower cubicle with an Aqualisa shower, a RAK Ceramics push-button WC, a wash basin with drawers under and fitted mirrors inset to the wall.
Inset spotlights to the smooth plastered ceiling, a side window, shaver point and heated towel rail complete what is a stylishly appointed room.
OUTSIDE
FRONT
Nicely positioned within the road, the property benefits from a brick-paved driveway giving access to both the front door and the garage, with ample space within the road itself for guest parking a very practical and well-considered frontage.
GARAGE 5.74m x 2.46m (18'10 x 8')
Fronted by a smart black Henderson up-and-over door, the garage has power and light connected and currently serves the owners as a useful overflow space housing a second fridge, freezer and tumble dryer.
REAR GARDEN
Blessed with a much-favoured southerly aspect, this garden is a genuine sun trap that also brings added warmth to the house during the winter months, a benefit easy to underestimate until experienced firsthand.
Starting with a patio area complete with an outside tap, the garden flows through to a central lawn before finishing with a second paved seating area to the rear, perfectly positioned to capture the last of the evening sun.
Council Tax
Basildon Council, Band D
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.
