- 3 Bed End Terrace House on the popular Birds Estate off Greens Farm Lane
- 5 min walk to the 90 acres of Mill Meadows Nature Reserve where cattle still have the right to roam!
- 8 walk to Grange Road Parade of shops, which includes a handy Tesco Express
- Rear Garage and Drive via service road although the owners park their 2 cars on the road in front
- Bright dual aspect Lounge with feature Freplace
- Kitchen/Diner with Shaker units with adjacent heated Conservatory allowing all-year-round-use.
- 3 good size Bedrooms, all with built-in storage.
- Bathroom refitted as a srtylish modern Shower Room
- Unique 3 separate Garden areas (Front, Side and Rear)
- Detached Garage with power and lighting
A well presented 3 Bedroom End Terrace House offering flexible living accommodation and the unique advantage of effectively three separate garden areas.
Situated on the popular Birds Estate, this delightful home also benefits from an enviable location within a five-minute walk of Mill Meadows Nature Reserve via local footpaths, whilst South Green's convenient amenities on Grange Road are just eight minutes away on foot too. Bus routes provide easy access to the Railway Station, High Street, and surrounding towns.
Particularly practical is the dual parking arrangement, with both a rear service road accessing the Garage at the end of the main Rear Garden and convenient on-street parking to the front, which the current owners prefer to use for their two cars.
The well-proportioned accommodation comprises a bright dual-aspect Lounge with a feature Fireplace (Gas Fire), a superb Kitchen/Diner fitted with attractive light Sage coloured Shaker-style units and a southerly-facing aspect, and a heated Conservatory providing versatile year-round living space.
Upstairs, three good-sized bedrooms include a generous master with built-in storage, whilst the family Bathroom has been tastefully refitted as a contemporary shower room.
Outside, the property truly comes into its own with its unusual garden configuration. Two separate rear gardens flank the conservatory, whilst the front garden enjoys a peaceful position at the end of a quiet walkway and could easily be enclosed for additional privacy. A detached garage with power and lighting completes this appealing home.
The Accommodation in more detail:
PORCH 6ft 3" x 4ft 9" (1.91m x 1.45m) max
A great size Porch with plenty of room for a storage unit. In addition, an almost invisible, discreet built-in cupboard opens to reveal the electrical consumer unit and gas meter.
Being predominantly glazed (solid roof), the porch is noticeably light and bright.
Door through to:
LOUNGE 14ft 5" x 13ft 10" (4.39m x 4.22m)
A sunny and bright room due to its dual aspect, having a large front facing window as well as a further side facing window.
The pleasant combination of the 'Duck Egg' blue feature wall behind the fireplace and the 'Fine Cream' walls complement perfectly the 'Mink' coloured carpet and the feature Fireplace has an inset real flame gas fire.
KITCHEN/DINER 14ft 7" x 10ft 6" (4.45m x 3.20m)
Due to its southerly aspect (with a large rear facing window as well as a part glazed back door with a companion window), this is a really nice and bright room too.
Fitted with an attractive range of 'Light Sage' coloured 'Shaker' style kitchen units featuring a ceramic kitchen sink, built-in ceramic Hob with a Multifunction Double Oven/Grill below and matching stainless steel Extractor above. There are also spaces for a dishwasher, washing machine and full-size fridge/freezer.
(Note there is power to the garage where the vendors keep their tumble dryer.)
There is also a large built-in under stairs cupboard providing a great additional storage facility and a set of folding double doors lead through to the Conservatory:
CONSERVATORY 9ft x 8ft 1" (2.74m x 2.46m)
With a radiator running off the central heating allowing all year round use.
It has wood laminate flooring and patio double doors going out to one of the two garden areas.
Stairs from Hallway rising to:
1ST FLOOR LANDING
With a window on the flank wall throwing plenty of light across the stairwell and the landing itself.
A flip-down loft hatch provides easy access to the loft via the fitted ladder.
MASTER BEDROOM 13ft 7" x 8ft 2" (4.14m x 2.49m)
A lovely size double bedroom with an almost full width window, maximising light. The measurements exclude a built-in cupboard/wardrobe.
BEDROOM TWO 9ft 2" x 8ft 1" (2.79m x 2.46m)
With cream walls and light beige carpet, this pleasant rear bedroom enjoys a southerly aspect, and the measurements exclude a very large built-in cupboard, presently shelved out.
- the cupboard measuring 4ft 1" x 1ft 9" (1.24m x 0.53m).
BEDROOM THREE 10ft 10" narrowing to 7ft 6" x 6ft (3.30m narrowing to 2.29m x 1.83m)
A very recently decorated bedroom, presently used as an excellent size study and with attractive dark grey oak effect laminate flooring and a large built-in storage cupboard.
We also noted an ISDN line and four x double power sockets!
BATHROOM 6ft 2" x 6ft 2" (1.88m x 1.88m)
Refitted as a smart and stylish shower room and perfectly square to boot.
With a corner shower with both a Fixed 'Rain' Showerhead as well as a separate handset, and a white gloss combination unit incorporating a RAK semi-recessed basin and back to wall WC with the cistern concealed in the unit.
Specification includes a very tall chrome towel radiator, a mirrored bathroom cabinet and a high-level window for natural light.
GARAGE 16ft 6" x 9ft (5m x 2.7m)
With an up and over door, courtesy door from the garden and a double glazed window for natural light. There are also two fluorescent strip lights (not tested) and power (the vendors keep their tumble dryer and spare freezer out here).
FRONT GARDEN
Roughly 27ft x 21ft with a path cutting through the middle of the lawn up, running up to the Front Door.
SIDE GARDEN
Roughly 49ft x 29ft max.
Although it's technically a side area, being at the end of a footpath it feels more like a rear garden, especially with the gardens of other houses behind it.
Up in one corner is a paved patio with a wooden pergola over it, itself with a climbing vine providing a nice Summer feature.
REAR GARDEN
Roughly 46ft x 37ft although within these measurements are the Garage and its Drive in front.
The more usable area is approximately 24ft x 33ft narrowing to 12ft - currently used as a rather successful Vegetable Garden.
Council Tax
Basildon Council, Band C
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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