This is a surprisingly spacious Four Bedroom Detached Family Home offering generous accommodation in an exceptionally convenient location. just moments from the High Street and Station.
It has four genuinely large double bedrooms, including a well-proportioned Master Bedroom with fitted wardrobes and a full Ensuite Bathroom. The particularly spacious main Bathroom and a ground floor loo add further practicality.
Downstairs are three excellent reception rooms. The Lounge features beautiful solid 'Merbau' herringbone parquet flooring (extending in from the Hall), whilst the impressive extended Dining Room boasts a part-vaulted ceiling, extensive glazing and wide doors opening onto the garden. A bright 15ft 6" Family Room provides a superb third reception space.
The large L-shaped Kitchen/Breakfast Room features striking black gloss units, solid wood worktops, 'natural slate' effect tiled flooring and a superb seven-burner Belling Farmhouse Range Cooker and a useful Utility Room lies immediately adjacent.
Outside, the low-maintenance paved garden is centred around an established oak tree, which is subject to a Tree Preservation Order and has recently been trimmed.
The corner position provides excellent access around to the remaining Garage/Store and additional parking, with further spaces to the front and side.
Location is a major attraction, with Billericay High Street just a 3 minute walk away and the Mainline Station only a little further at around 6 minutes' on foot.
The property is also within the catchment for Quilters Primary Schools and Billericay High School, with Lake Meadows Park, Norsey Woods and Sun Corner open space all around 11 minute walks away too.
The Accommodation in more detail:
PORCH 5ft 8" x 3ft 7" (1.73m x 1.09m)
A good-sized entrance porch with two windows providing plenty of natural light.
Door through to hall.
HALL 16ft x 6ft 2" (4.88m x 1.88m)
A particularly impressive entrance hall featuring beautiful solid Merbau hardwood parquet flooring, laid in a traditional herringbone pattern with perimeter border detail, continuing into the Lounge.
GROUND FLOOR WC 5ft 2" x 2ft 7" (1.57m x 0.79m)
Fitted with a white cloakroom suite and fully tiled.
LOUNGE 16ft 1" x 11ft 4" (4.90m x 3.45m)
Bathed in afternoon sunshine through the tall front-facing window, with a further side-facing obscure-glazed window providing additional natural light.
A 5ft-wide set of glazed double doors lead through to the Dining Room.
DINING ROOM 14ft 10" x 11ft 2" (4.52m x 3.40m)
An impressive extended reception room featuring a vaulted ceiling rising to approximately 10ft 7" (3.23m), extensive feature glazing and wide double doors opening onto the garden.
The attractive 'natural riven slate' effect tiled floor features a lovely mix of rustic copper, brown, grey and golden-yellow tones and continues through into the Kitchen/Breakfast Room adjacent.
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FAMILY ROOM 15ft 6" x 10ft 10" (4.72m x 3.30m)
Another excellent-sized dual-aspect reception room, notably light and bright thanks to three windows, including a particularly large front-facing window and with attractive wide-plank wood flooring.
KITCHEN/BREAKFAST ROOM 16ft narrowing to 7ft 9" x 13ft 7" (4.88m > 2.36m x 4.14m)
A large L-shaped kitchen fitted with striking black gloss units, topped with solid wood worktops and incorporating a 1½-bowl sink.
A superb Belling Farmhouse Range Cooker provides seven gas burners and is in excellent condition ideal for the keen cook.
Space is provided for an under-counter dishwasher, a large 800mm wide fridge/freezer and a useful one/two-seater breakfast bar.
UTILITY ROOM 8ft x 5ft 3" (2.44m x 1.60m)
Conveniently positioned directly off the kitchen and providing excellent practical space, with a range of wall-mounted cupboards, a base cupboard and space for up to three appliances.
There's a feature high-level circular window and one cupboard houses the wall-mounted Baxi boiler.
A handy lockable courtesy door provides access to the Garage/Store.
Stairs from Hall to 1st Floor Landing
1st FLOOR LANDING 11ft 3" x 10ft (3.43m x 3.05m)
A notably spacious landing with built-in airing cupboard.
MASTER BEDROOM 14ft x 12ft 2" (4.27m x 3.71m)
A well-proportioned principal bedroom, with measurements excluding an impressive 8ft+ (2.44m+) run of fitted Maplewood-effect wardrobes, inset within a recess.
EN-SUITE BATHROOM 9ft 7" x 5ft 5" (2.92m x 1.65m)
Fitted with a 'ShowerBath' with separate fixed shower and handset over, close-coupled WC and Villeroy & Boch wall-mounted Vanity Unit.
Fully tiled in attractive black-and-white metro tiling, with a sizeable window providing plenty of natural light.
BEDROOM TWO 12ft 9" narrowing to 11ft 2" x 12ft 3" (3.89m > 3.40m x 3.73m)
Another lovely large double bedroom with the measurements excluding a useful 2ft 5" x 3ft (0.74m x 0.91m) walk-in wardrobe and attractive dark wood laminate flooring.
BEDROOM THREE 12ft 9" x 11ft 2" (3.89m x 3.40m)
A large front-facing double bedroom, bathed in natural light and fitted with two large double wardrobes with a central desk/dressing table.
BEDROOM FOUR 11ft 3" x 11ft 2" (3.43m x 3.40m)
Another excellent-sized double bedroom, positioned to the rear.
BATHROOM 9ft 8" x 6ft 7" (2.95m x 2.01m)
A particularly spacious bathroom fitted with a white suite and separate shower over the bath. A good-sized window provides plenty of natural light.
REAR GARDEN
Designed with low maintenance in mind and predominantly paved.
The established oak tree provides a wonderful focal point and is subject to a Tree Preservation Order. It is clearly well cared for and has recently been trimmed back.
A side gate provides access to the mews onto which the house sits, allowing particularly easy access to the rear Garage/Store and additional parking.
GARAGE/STORE 10ft 5" x 8ft 2" (3.18m x 2.49m)
The original integral garage has been partially converted to create the Utility Room, leaving this useful remaining storage area.
Whilst no longer suitable for a conventional family car, the remotely operated roller door travels vertically upwards, maximising the available space and potentially allowing a very small city car such as a Toyota iQ or classic Mini to be accommodated.
There is a high-level window providing natural light, together with strip lighting and power/socket provision.
Council Tax
Basildon Council, Band F
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.
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