COMING SOON...
A sizeable Five Bedroom Link-Detached House on a corner plot offering tremendous potential, with three reception rooms, two bathrooms and a garage.
Yes, it needs some updating and personalising throughout - but with a property this well located, that's an opportunity, not a problem.!
The accommodation is generous: a notably large Hall, three good sized reception rooms including a 23ft Lounge stretching the full depth of the house, five bedrooms (four of them doubles), an Ensuite to the Master Bedroom, family Bathroom and a Kitchen extending behind the garage.
Outside, the recently jetwashed Front Drive takes four cars, with a 46ft x 42ft enclosed rear garden behind.
But the real story here is the location. Billericay station - with London Liverpool Street just 35 minutes away - is a mere half mile, around a 12-13 minute walk. The High Street is slightly closer at just under half a mile. Day-to-day essentials are even easier: a Tesco Express is literally two minutes away on foot, with a convenience store on the corner of Prince Edward Road even closer!
Sunnymede School is a 4-5 minute walk, and the 90 acres of Mill Meadows Nature Reserve is similarly close. Norsey Woods - all of it - is just two minutes by car.
Properties in this location, on a corner plot and with this much space, are rare. Bring your vision and make it your own.
The Accommodation in more detail:
HALL 19ft 8" x 6ft 6" max (5.99m x 1.98m)
Extended into the original storm porch one way and beyond into what was originally part of the kitchen the other, so an above average size and length.
There's both an understairs cupboard and a full height built-in cupboard 'around the corner' - a continuation of the Hall that turns left at the end, to access the Study and another door to the Lounge.
GROUND FLOOR WC 4ft 6" x 2ft 10" (1.37m x 0.86m)
With a white cloakroom suite and fully tiled.
DINING ROOM 13ft 5" narrowing to 12ft x 11ft 3" (4.09m narrowing to 3.66m x 3.43m)
An incredibly sunny room courtesy of the large front facing window, which streams in natural light.
This room was originally the lounge, so it still retains a fireplace, along with a recess to the left for furniture.
Its wood laminate flooring extends on into the adjacent Lounge (part of the double storey side extension).
LOUNGE 23ft 7" x 11ft 4" (7.19m x 3.45m)
Stretching the full depth of the house and so with both a large front facing window and a rear set of double doors with adjacent full height windows opening out to the garden.
The focal point is the Limestone effect Fireplace with its inset gas fire.
STUDY 8ft 4" x 6ft 6" (2.54m x 1.98m)
A handy and versatile extra downstairs room with a wide set of double doors opening out to the garden.
KITCHEN 18ft x 7ft 1" narrowing to 6ft 5" (5.49m x 2.16m > 1.96m)
In need of refitting, at present with a range of functional units and including a freestanding range cooker and spaces for all the usual appliances.
Up on the wall is a Glow-Worm 'Energy7' Boiler, which along with the hot water cylinder upstairs in the airing cupboard, serves the gas central heating via radiators and hot water.
Stairs from HALL to:
1st FLOOR LANDING
Following the double storey extension, the landing winds round, accessing all the bedrooms, and has a built-in airing cupboard housing the hot water cylinder.
There is also a side facing window throwing lots of light over the stairwell and across to the landing.
MASTER BEDROOM 11ft 5" x 11ft 5" (3.48m x 3.48m)
Perfectly square, this large rear facing bedroom has a notably wide window enjoying a pleasant rear outlook.
EN SUITE SHOWER ROOM 8ft 3" x 3ft 10" (2.51m x 1.17m)
A spacious Ensuite featuring a 1200mm x 800mm double shower and fully tiled.
BEDROOM TWO 11ft 7" x 9ft 8" (3.53m x 2.95m)
(Measurements exclude the door recess)
Another large double bedroom with a rear facing window enjoying quite a pleasant outlook, with the tree line of Norsey Woods in the far distance.
BEDROOM THREE 10ft 1" x 8ft 6" (3.07m x 2.59m)
Yet another good sized double bedroom with a wide front facing window, maximising light.
BEDROOM FOUR 11ft 5" x 7ft 5" (3.48m x 2.26m)
The forth double bedorom of this five bedroom house and again front facing with a wide window so lovely and bright.
BEDROOM FIVE 8ft 10" x 7ft 5" (2.69m x 2.26m)
A front facing single bedroom with a deep built-in cupboard, which would also make a great study.
BATHROOM 7ft 10" x 6ft (2.39m x 1.83m)
Fully tiled with a white bathroom suite including a separate shower over the bath and dual aspect, with two windows (rear and side) giving lots of natural light.
GARAGE 19ft 3" x 8ft 3" (5.87m x 2.51m)
Ever so slightly longer than usual and with lighting and power, along with an up and over garage door.
EXTERIOR - FRONT
The recently jetwashed and re-sanded Front Drive will take four cars.
EXTERIOR - GARDEN 46ft x 42ft (14m x 12.74m)
With a block paved Patio, the balance lawn and with access on once side.
Council Tax
Basildon Council, Band E
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.
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