Sun Street, Billericay

£300,000 - Sold


  • 2 Bedroom early Victorian Cottage in very convenient location just off Billericay High Street!
  • (Billericay High Street with its central Waitrose Store, shops, bars and restaurants)
  • Half mile easy walk to Billericay Railway Station (London Liverpool Street in 35 minutes)
  • Stones throw from Mill Meadows Nature Reserve on Southend Road & Sun Corner open space
  • 70ft Garden with 10ft x 8ft Cabin at the end - perfect Home Office of Garden Bar!
  • Two living rooms (Lounge & Dininig Room) - both with Fireplaces and Kitchen downstairs
  • The two bedrooms and large Bathroom upstairs. The Loft is surprisingly large too.
  • Gas Central Heating via radiators (modern Combi Boiler)
  • Double glazed windows
  • The Owners park just a short 4-5 minute walk (They rarely need to use the car)

Perched just a shopping bags swing from the High Street, this 2 Bedroom late Georgian/early Victorian Cottage benefits from an upstairs Bathroom rather than a downstairs one, as we normally see with most of these historic cottages. A big selling point.

The property has also been decorated and presented with a clear nod to its period past, the heritage colour palettes of the walls, new solid wood worktops in the kitchen, a new Cast Iron Fire in the Dining Room, wood effect flooring, 'ledge and brace' internal doors and traditional taps and showerhead in the Bathroom, all very much in-keeping.

There is full Gas Central Heating via Radiators and the replacement double glazed Sash windows to the front have preserved and enhanced the buildings appearance, keeping within the character of the conservation area.

Its present accommodation comprises a Sitting Room/Lounge, Dining Room, Kitchen, 1st Floor Landing, the two bedrooms and the good size 1st floor Bathroom. In addition, the Attic is a surprisingly good size too.

The Garden is approaching 70ft long and boasts a Garden Studio building at the end - perfect for a Home Bar or Office, and the attached 'Outhouse' still retains the soil stack, and thus so offers the option of being reinstated as a 'Gardeners Loo'

During the day, the packed historic High Street, literally around the corner, has many well-known high street names mixed with smaller privately owned boutiques and a central Waitrose, providing more than the daily essentials and the numerous intermingled restaurants, bars and pubs give the high street a real buzz of an evening, particularly Friday and Saturday nights.

City Commuters will also be attracted as the Mainline Station is just a quick 11 minute/half mile stroll, the trains whizzing you to London Liverpool Street in just 35 minutes.


The Accommodation

UPVC double glazed front door through to:


LIVING ROOM 12ft 10' x 10ft 10' (3.9m x 3.3m)

Plantation shutters have been fitted to the front facing double glazed Sash window and the Chimney Breast is still in situ, thus an open Fire could potentially be reinstated.

Attractive wood flooring extends on into the Dining Room and Kitchen.


DINING ROOM 11ft 2' x 8ft 4' (3.4m x 2.5m)

There's plenty of room for a large dining table and chairs and we liked the Cast Iron Fireplace in the corner - we're not 100% sure but the chimney breast seems to continue upstairs and join the main one in the Loft, so it is possible this could also be reinstated as a working Fireplace.

Another ledge and brace door opens to reveal a notably large under stairs cupboard.


KITCHEN 9ft 7' x 5ft 6' (2.9m x 1.7m)

Fitted with a modern range of 'White Gloss' units topped with new solid wood worktops.

There's spaces for all the usual appliances and plenty of light comes through the two rear facing windows and half glazed 'back' door that goes out to the Garden.


Staircase from Dining Room to:

1st FLOOR LANDING

Doors off to:


MASTER BEDROOM 13ft x 11ft 1' (4m x 3.4m)

A really good sized double bedroom and like the Sitting Room directly below, elegant plantation shutters have been fitted to the front facing double glazed Sash window.

Either side of the chimney breast are bespoke fitted wardrobes with pinewood fronted doors.


BEDROOM TWO 8ft 10' x 8ft 1' (2.7m x 2.5m)

This rear facing bedroom will take a double bed at a squeeze and also houses the Loft Hatch, which flips down to reveal the surprisingly spacious loft.


LOFT

Peering up into the roof space we were quite surprised by the storage area up here. It would be quite easy to add a sturdy loft ladder and make more of this really useful area.


BATHROOM 10ft x 5ft 8' (3m x 1.7m)

The white suite continues the period theme, the heritage style pedestal basin with period style taps and the Bath with a period style fixed shower head.

A large window provides lots of natural daylight, reflecting off the white walls and wall tiles to make the room feel even brighter and there's also a chrome towel radiator and a built-in cupboard housing the Ideal 'Independent Combi 24' Combination Boiler.


GARDEN

The initial Patio runs onto a very neat lawn, itself rolling along to the end of the garden where there is a fairly new SUMMERHOUSE/CABIN 9ft 10' x 7ft 7' (3m x 2.3m), with a decked veranda - perfect for alfresco entertaining or of course as a Home Bar or Office.

The old attached brick OUTHOUSE still retains its original ledge and braced door and the soil stack is still in situ (now used by the upstairs Bathroom) so there is the potential for this useful store to be reinstated as an outside WC (good for Summer bashes!). It has a rear facing window, light and power socket.



Council Tax
Basildon Council, Band B

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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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