- Four Bedroom Detached chalet style House with Double Garage on generous plot
- Set back some 60ft from the Stock Road behind tall laurel screening also gives a 6 car Drive
- Catchment for Buttsbury Infants & Junior Schools, the Infants with an Outstanding OFSTED Report
- Short walks to the local schools, shops, Norsey Woods & Lake Meadows Park
- Walking distance to Billericay Railway Station (London Liverpool Street in 35 minutes)
- Welcoming Hall with ground floor WC. Huge L-shaped Lounge/Diner. Kitchen/Breakfast Room & Garden Rm
- Kitchen next to big Dining area allows scope for a big open plan Kitchen/Diner)
- 4 Double Bedrooms and a massive Bathroom upstairs (Bathroom could be split in two)
- Sun trap 60ft Garden. Gas Central Heating. Lots of potential to enlarge. 3rd Extra reception
- BOASTS NO ONWARD CHAIN!
This Four Bedroom Detached Chalet style house with a Detached Double Garage, occupies a generous plot set well back from the Stock Road, with privacy screening provided by tall laurel hedging.
The Garage is positioned at right angles to the front of the house and there is ample parking for up to 6 cars on the herringbone block paved drive.
Whilst the property retains much of its original character and is somewhat dated (accurately reflected in the asking price), it is exceptionally clean and well-maintained throughout.
The accommodation comprises a welcoming Entrance Hall, extremely spacious L-shaped Lounge/Diner with an attractive Art Deco style marble Fireplace, Kitchen/Breakfast Room, versatile extra rear reception room with patio doors to the Garden, a ground floor WC, and four good-sized bedrooms including two that one could use interchangeably as the Master Bedroom.
The huge Family Bathroom offers excellent potential for conversion into two bathrooms if desired.
The South-East facing Rear Garden is a particular highlight - being a real sun trap with mature screening, winding path, pergola and two patio areas providing excellent privacy and outdoor entertaining space.
The location is highly desirable, falling within the catchment area for the highly regarded Buttsbury Primary and Mayflower High Schools.
Local amenities including nearby shops further along Stock Road, Stockbrook Manor Golf and Country Club, Lake Meadows Park, Norsey Woods and Billericay Railway Station (London Liverpool Street in 35 minutes) are all within easy walking distance, making this an ideal family home combining peaceful residential living with excellent transport links and local facilities.
The Accommodation comprises:
HALL 10ft 4" x 9ft 1" (3.15m x 2.77m)
A nice size hallway with an understairs cupboard.
GROUND FLOOR WC ROOM 6ft x 2ft 10" (1.83m x 0.86m)
Refitted with a smart modern cloakroom suite including a corner vanity unit.
Fully tiled and with a chrome towel radiator and window for natural light.
L SHAPED LOUNGE/DINER 22ft max x 21ft 4" max (6.71m x 6.50m)
Although open plan, for the purposes of description, we will divide it into two separate areas:
LOUNGE AREA 22ft x 12ft (6.71m x 3.66m)
Upon entering, the eyes will naturally be drawn to the large front facing bay window, nearly 12 feet (3.66m) wide and providing a nice feature of the room.
There is also an additional high-level side window for extra light.
The focal point is the 'Art Deco' styled marble fireplace with its inset gas fire.
DINING AREA 12ft 5" x 9ft 5" (3.78m x 2.87m)
Fully open plan from the lounge and thus also enjoying the light coming in through the bay window, as well as having its own side facing window too.
The dining area is right adjacent to the kitchen, so opening the pair up into a large open plan Kitchen/Diner would be very easy.
KITCHEN/BREAKFAST ROOM 12ft 3" x 10ft 10" (3.73m x 3.30m)
Dated (reflected in the asking price) but fully functional and exceedingly clean!
A new 1.5 bowl composite sink sits below the large rear facing window which floods in lots of sunlight, making this room particularly light and bright.
There is a built-in Siemens electric Hob with an integrated Extractor Hood above and built-in Double Oven/Grill.
Integrated with the kitchen units is an under counter fridge and adjacent freezer, and there are spaces for a freestanding washing machine and dishwasher.
Within one of the larger cupboards is the Potterton 'Gold' combination boiler.
The glazed external side door leads out to the side path to provide easy access to the garage.
GARDEN ROOM 9ft 1" x 8ft (2.77m x 2.44m)
A very versatile room with the almost full width set of sliding patio doors enjoying a very pleasant outlook over the garden.
A further internal door opens to reveal a full height built-in cupboard housing the new electrical consumer unit and gas meter.
Stairs from Hall rising to:
FIRST FLOOR LANDING 12ft 10" narrowing to 10ft x 12ft 4" (3.91m narrowing to 3.05m x 3.76m)
A notably spacious landing with a large airing cupboard housing the hot water cylinder.
MASTER BEDROOM 12ft 5" max x 12ft 1" max (3.78m x 3.68m)
This front facing double bedroom has two windows for maximum light.
There is also a handy eaves storage cupboard.
Here and in all four bedrooms, laminate flooring has been laid.
BEDROOM TWO 12ft 7" x 10ft 1" (3.84m x 3.07m)
Being rear facing, this double bedroom has a lovely outlook over the garden and surrounding gardens.
It also comes with a range of fitted wardrobes and a matching dressing table.
Two windows provide lots of light.
BEDROOM THREE 12ft 1" x 9ft 3" (3.68m x 2.82m)
Another bedroom that will easily take a double bed, this one with a front facing window.
BEDROOM FOUR 10ft 1" x 9ft 3" (3.07m x 2.82m)
Another rear double bedroom, so again enjoying the particularly pleasant view of the garden.
BATHROOM 9ft 10" x 9ft 4" (3.00m x 2.84m)
Huge!
Being situated between the two interchangeable master bedrooms, it clearly lends itself to be converted into two bathrooms, to give an Ensuite or extra space to one of the bedrooms.
It's currently fitted with a dated yet remarkably clean suite comprising a large vanity unit, close coupled WC and both a full size bath as well as a separate shower.
Fully tiled, with two wall lights either side of the mirror over the basin and a large window for maximum light.
EXTERIOR - FRONT
The herringbone design block paved drive provides parking for 6 cars with ease.
A tall laurel and a conifer provide plenty of screening from the road.
GARAGE 16ft 5" x 16ft wide (5.00m x 4.88m)
With an almost full width up and over door and a glazed courtesy door.
There is lighting and power.
GARDEN
60ft long and being south east facing, the garden is quite the sun trap, especially with the high screening of the various trees and bushes that surround the garden.
There's the initial patio which steps down to a winding path, leading down to a second smaller patio at the end of the garden, below a pergola.
There are six trees at the bottom of the garden (five conifers) which add to the privacy.
The garden can be accessed from both sides of the house via gates.
Council Tax
Basildon Council, Band F
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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.
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