- Charming 1880s Character Home On A Prime Private Road Near Billericay High Street And Station
- Peaceful Setting With Landscaped Gardens, Double Garage, And Double-Width Driveway
- Four Double Bedrooms, Three With Fireplaces, Plus An En-Suite Dressing Room And Shower Room
- Spacious Reception Rooms With High Ceilings, Feature Fireplaces, And Abundant Natural Light
- Remodelled Kitchen/Diner With Granite Worktops, Island Unit, And Larder Fridge and Freezer
- Conservatory With Vaulted Ceiling, Tiled Floor, And French Doors Opening To The Rear Garden
- Tanked Basement Room And Fully Boarded Loft With Skylights Offer Excellent Conversion Potential
- Split-Level Landing With Sash Windows And Period Doors Leading To Character-Filled Bedrooms
- Family Bathroom With Four-Piece Vintage Style' Suite Including Bath And Walk-In Shower
- Rear Garden With Lawn And Landscaped Front Garden With Patios, And Multiple Seating Areas
Positioned on one of Billericay's prime private gravel roads, just a short walk from the High Street and train station, this exceptional character home combines period charm with versatile, well-proportioned accommodation.
Nestled within peaceful surroundings, it offers both tranquillity and convenience, together with a wealth of style and features. The property also provides exciting potential for further enhancement, with a tanked basement and a boarded loft space complete with skylight windows ready for conversion.
Set behind a beautifully landscaped and enclosed front garden, an ideal spot to enjoy an afternoon cup of tea in shelter, the home also benefits from a double garage and a generous double-width driveway.
Dating back to 1880, the house has been sympathetically updated over the years to meet modern-day expectations while preserving its historic character features and appeal. Upstairs, four double bedrooms are arranged from a split-level landing, three of which feature fireplaces. The principal bedroom is further enhanced by an en-suite dressing room and shower room.
The ground floor is equally rewarding, with high ceilings adding a sense of space and grandeur to each room. An impressive L-shaped hallway offers both a welcoming entrance and a sense of privacy for the reception spaces. The dining room flows seamlessly into the recently remodelled kitchen, which in turn opens onto a light-filled conservatory/sunroom, creating an ideal setting for modern family living and entertaining.
In addition to the landscaped front garden, the property also enjoys a generous rear garden, completing this outstanding home in one of the town's most sought-after and peaceful locations.
ACCOMMODATION AS FOLLOWS...
RECEPTION HALL
Sheltered beneath a canopy, the entrance door opens into an L-shaped hallway. With wood-style vinyl flooring and the first glimpse of the home's impressive high ceilings, this welcoming space offers both practicality and privacy for the heart of the house.
Doors lead to each of the reception rooms, while a staircase with turned balustrades rise to the first floor.
SITTING ROOM 5.9m x 4.26m (19'4 x 14')
A fabulous reception space featuring high ceilings, wood-style flooring, and abundant natural light from rear and side windows, together with a door that opens directly onto the front courtyard garden.
STUDY/PLAYROOM 4.16m x 3.99m (13'8 x 13'1)
An inviting room with a front-facing window, picture rail, and high ceilings.
The dark wood flooring and column radiator enhance the character of this versatile space, making it perfect as a study, snug, or additional reception room depending on family needs.
UTILITY ROOM 2.26m x2.14m (7'6 x7')
A practical space with a rear window, fitted worktops, useful storage, plumbing for a washing machine and space for a tumble dryer.
CLOAKROOM
Tucked away for convenience, this room is fitted with a white suite comprising a low-level WC and wash basin.
KITCHEN/DINER 8.88m x 4.01m > 3.52m
A centrepiece of the home, this recently remodelled kitchen/diner blends modern practicality with the home's period character. At one end, a feature fireplace with sash window creates a natural dining area, a perfect a generous space for family meals and entertaining guests.
At the opposite end, the professionally fitted kitchen is finished with granite worktops, an island unit with integrated dishwasher, and a wide range of storage solutions including pan drawers, pull-out corner unit, and high-level cupboards.
The design also incorporates a larder fridge, larder freezer, space for a range cooker, and an under-counter butler sink with a mixer tap and a spray rinse taps.
CONSERVATORY 4.21m x 3.05m (13'10 x 10')
Double doors open to a bright conservatory with vaulted ceiling and tiled flooring while deep windowsills double as sociable window seats, making this a natural extension of the living space.
A side door also provides garden access.
FIRST FLOOR LANDING
The split-level landing stretches across the centre of the house, enhanced by high ceilings, balustrades, a front-facing sash window, and original doors to each of the bedrooms.
A secondary landing area gives access to the unexpected notable loft.
LOFT AREA 601m x 3.95m + 4.84m x 4m (19'8 x 12'11 + 15'10 x 13'1)
Fully boarded and in times gone by, used as staff accommodation, the loft is now lit by three skylight windows and offers excellent potential for conversion into further living space.
MAIN BEDROOM SUITE 4.16m x 3.99m (13'8 x 13'1)
This calm but elegant room features wood-style laminate flooring, pastel décor, window shutters, and a character fire surround.
A door leads to the en-suite dressing room.
DRESSING ROOM
With a front window and fitted furniture including wardrobes, drawers, and hanging space, this is a superbly functional addition.
EN-SUITE SHOWER ROOM
Naturally lit via a side window, this room includes a white suite with low-level WC, wash basin, and shower cubicle with folding door, plus a heated towel rail and extractor fan.
BEDROOM TWO 5.89m x 4.26m (19'4 x 14')
Once the principal bedroom, this is a charming double room with two sash windows, fitted wardrobes with sliding doors, a fire surround, and period features to match those found throughout this home, such as picture rails and cornicing.
BEDROOM THREE 5.33m x 3.52m (17'6 x 11'7)
Another generously proportioned double, with fitted sliding wardrobes, an additional cupboard, sash window with some original glass, and character features including a fire surround, picture rail, and high ceilings.
BEDROOM FOUR 3.63m x 3.6m (11'11 x 11'10)
A bright and versatile bedroom with both side and rear windows, a decorative cornice, picture rail, and wood-style flooring.
Positioned next to the bathroom, it makes an ideal guest room.
FAMILY BATHROOM
Part of a more recent extension, the bathroom features a four-piece white vintage style' suite with pedestal wash basin, low-level WC, panelled bath, and deep walk-in shower with Mira unit.
Finished with tiled splashbacks and vinyl flooring, it combines practicality with style.
OUTSIDE
FRONT
Professionally landscaped, the wide frontage is divided into two areas. To one side lies a double-width block-paved driveway providing access to the garage.
To the other, a secure gate opens into a beautifully landscaped low-maintenance garden, offering a fitting approach to this character home.
REAR GARDEN
The rear garden is neatly arranged with a central lawn surrounded by sleeper-edged raised borders.
A paved patio extends along the side and rear of the house and features again in the rear corner, creating multiple seating areas.
DOUBLE GARAGE
The double garage includes twin up-and-over doors, power, lighting, and an internal door to the house make this an incredibly useful area for all things indoor and out. The gas boiler is also located in here.
Council Tax
Basildon Council, Band G
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.
