Stock Road, Billericay

Guide Price £375,000 - Sold STC


  • Prestigious Development Within one of Billericay's Prime Residential Areas
  • Secure Visitors Parking and Underground Residents Parking With a Lift to all Floors
  • One of Only Two Apartments with Double Doors Opening onto the Gardens
  • Security Video Entry Phone Entry System
  • Quality Oak Flooring in the Hallway and Open Plan Living Space
  • Smooth Ceilings, Inset Spotlights and Gas Radiator Heating
  • Two Double Bedrooms
  • Fully Tiled En-Suite Shower Room and Bathroom
  • Cream Gloss Kitchen with Integrated Appliances and White Quartz Worktop
  • No Onward Chain Involved

This large two-bedroom apartment has to undoubtedly be one of the most appealing that is currently available in central Billericay for your consideration.

This prestigious modern development sits nicely within one of Billericay's prime residential areas and boasts features often found in high-end developments.

With this particular apartment being positioned on the ground floor, it commands prime position being one of only two apartments that have double doors opening onto the rear gardens.

In addition, it's worth noting both the bedrooms are generous double rooms with the main one having its own ensuite shower room while the second bedroom effectively has its own individual use of the bathroom - an ideal set up for when friends come to stay the night.

These properties were built with quality fittings and still enjoy an appealing modern style, this one with smooth ceilings, inset spotlights and the preferred gas radiator heating also has quality oak flooring fitted in the reception hall and into the main living space.

As mentioned, the open plan living space enjoys good natural light from double doors to the garden and features a smart cream gloss Kitchen with integrated appliances under a sleek white quartz worktop.

You will also notice from the photos the development has a secure gated entry, as well as secure visitors parking and underground residents parking where there is a lift to take you and your shopping up to your apartment floor.

Interested applicants are also advised this property is being offered for sale with the added advantage of having no onward chain being involved.


ACCOMMODATION AS FOLLOWS…


COMMUNAL HALL

The main pedestrian path leading upto the recessed porch and substantial wood front doors, is accessed by an electronically controlled gate where a security intercom system connects with the apartment.

A further intercom is positioned just outside the main entrance to the communal area where a glass partition separates the main communal thoroghfare where the stairs are to the enclosed area where the apartment doors and lift entrance sit.


ENTRANCE HALL

The L- shaped entrance hall with smooth ceilings, inset down lighters and Oak flooring runs seamlessly into the kitchen living room - giving you an immediate modern feel.

Within this hallway, you have the video entry phone, an alarm keypad, the thermostat control for the electric radiator heating and a large store cupboard which also houses the hot water system.

Stylish wood veneer doors open to each of the two bedrooms, bathroom and living room.


KITCHEN LIVING ROOM 6.74 m x 3.05 m > 2.8 m

This living room runs the full depth of the apartment, and as mentioned the oak flooring also extends into this space.

The kitchen is positioned to one end and provides you with a range of cream coloured gloss units with white quartz worktops and matching upstands, these base units in turn contrast nicely with the wood effect wall cabinets.

Built within these units is an undercounter one and a half bowl sink unit, a built-in fridge and freezer, an integrated washer dryer, slimline dishwasher, Bosch electric oven and ceramic hob with a cooker hood over.

The quartz worktops extend into a curved end breakfast bar which not only gives you an eating area but also creates a natural divider between both the kitchen and living area.

The living area is generous in size and can accommodate a good-sized corner sofa.

Unlike all but one other apartment, this apartment boasts double doors from this room which not only provide great natural light but also lead out onto the main paved patio and communal gardens.


BEDROOM ONE 2.58 m x 3.81 m (12'6 x 8'5)

The rear facing window with a notable deep sill gives a nice bit of character to this main bedroom which also has both a built-in double wardrobe as well as an additional built-in single wardrobe.

Matching wood veneer doors are fitted to the wardrobes and give access to the ensuite shower room.


EN-SUITE SHOWER ROOM

This fully tiled shower room with inset spots and a side window has a fitted Duravit three-piece suite which consists of a wall mounted hand basin with mixer taps, a wall hung WC with pushbutton flush and a walk-in shower cubicle with an overhead shower.

A mirror fronted bathroom cabinet sits neatly within the recess and there is also a heated chrome towel rail.


BEDROOM TWO 4.52 m > 3.11 m x 2.65 m (14'10 x 8'10)

The second bedroom enjoys generous dimensions and can easily accommodate a double bed, there is also a window looking onto the communal gardens and a large built-in double wardrobe with wood veneer doors.


BATHROOM 1.69 m x 1.9 m

Again, just like the en-suite, the bathroom is fully tiled and there is a three-piece white suite which consists of a wall hung WC with pushbutton flush, a semi ped wash basin with mixer taps and a panel enclosed bath with wall mounted taps and an overhead shower - giving a sleek stylish finish.

In addition, there is a glass shower screen, a built-in mirror fronted cabinet, inset downlighters and chrome towel rail.


OUTSIDE

GARDENS

This is one of just two apartments which have double doors leading directly out onto the communal gardens. These gardens have extensive hard scaping incorporating curved flowerbeds so as to create different zones while giving privacy for each resident when in use.


PARKING

As well as visitors parking, this apartment block has an allocated underground parking space.

Access to this underground space, where you also have a storage cage, is via remote gates and from here a lift will take you and your shopping up to the communal hall just outside your front door.


LEASE DETAILS

The lease is for 155 years and runs from 1st January 2010.

The total service charge for the last year was £2,378.28 and the ground rent is £275 per annum.

The service charge can be paid monthly at £198.19



Council Tax
Basildon Council, Band D

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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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