A great opportunity to buy a Four Bedroom DETACHED House situated in the popular 'Brightside' area of Billericay, conveniently positioned close to the local Brightside primary school and within approximately one mile of Billericay railway station.
The property requires full modernisation, but offers excellent potential to create a superb family home, with particularly good accommodation and a generous rear garden.
The ground floor provides a 20ft Lounge/diner, a substantial 17ft Kitchen/Breakfast Room, ground floor WC and an integral garage - which of course offers obvious potential for conversion, subject to the necessary consents.
To the rear is an impressive 48ft x 28ft south-east facing garden, providing plenty of space and scope for landscaping and entertaining.
The Room sizes in more detail:
ENTRANCE HALL 12ft 3" x 7ft (3.73m x 2.13m)
A particularly spacious entrance hall, with the measurements excluding two unusually large storage cupboards.
The first is a walk-in cupboard measuring 4ft 8" x 2ft 9" (1.42m x 0.84m), housing the fuse box and a Solis solar inverter serving the property's solar panel system.
The second measures 4ft 5" x 3ft 2" (1.35m x 0.97m) and houses the existing freestanding boiler.
Note: The smaller of the two walk-in cupboards part protrudes into the lounge, and if you were to remove the aforementioned freestanding boiler (new one up in the loft etc), it would be quite straightforward to remove this cupboard to make the lounge slightly bigger, giving the option of a lounge/diner.
GROUND FLOOR CLOAKROOM 7ft 4" x 2ft 10" (2.24m x 0.86m)
Fitted with the original two-piece cloakroom suite and benefiting from a front-facing window providing natural light.
LOUNGE 20ft x 10ft 10" (6.10m x 3.30m)
A particularly sunny rear-facing reception room, enjoying plenty of natural light through its large windows and glazed external rear door.
An open fireplace sits within a Yorkstone surround, believed to date from the 1970s.
There is also scope to open the lounge through to the adjacent kitchen/diner to create a fantastic open-plan living space.
KITCHEN/DINER 17ft x 7ft 10" (5.18m x 2.39m)
A generous kitchen/diner requiring complete replacement, but offering a great starting point for a contemporary redesign.
Windows to both the rear and side, together with a fully glazed side door, provide plenty of natural light.
Subject to the necessary alterations, opening this room into the lounge could create an impressive kitchen, dining and family area.
Stairs rise from the entrance hall to the first-floor landing.
FIRST-FLOOR LANDING
With a built-in airing cupboard and loft hatch providing access to the roof space.
BEDROOM ONE 13ft 7" x 10ft 6" (4.14m x 3.20m)
A generous double bedroom with a large rear-facing window, maximising natural light.
There is visible evidence of a historic roof leak, although the apparently unstained carpet beneath may suggest this was some time ago and the leak repaired, although further investigation is recommended to establish the cause and confirm whether any repairs are still required.
BEDROOM TWO 12ft 8" x 8ft 4" (3.86m x 2.54m)
A good-sized bedroom, with the measurements excluding a substantial built-in double wardrobe measuring approximately 5ft 6" wide.
BEDROOM THREE 12ft 6" x 7ft (3.81m x 2.13m)
Another well-proportioned bedroom with a large front-facing window.
The measurements exclude a 5ft 6"-wide built-in double wardrobe and a useful recess above the staircase bulkhead.
BEDROOM FOUR 8ft 6" x 8ft 3" (2.59m x 2.51m)
A surprisingly good-sized fourth bedroom, also front-facing, with the measurements excluding a useful recess above the staircase bulkhead.
Depending on furniture layout, this room could potentially accommodate a small double bed.
FAMILY BATHROOM 6ft 10" x 5ft 7" (2.08m x 1.70m)
Fitted with a dated bathroom suite requiring replacement as part of the property's modernisation.
A side-facing window provides natural light and ventilation.
INTEGRAL GARAGE
A single integral garage with a front-facing up-and-over door and a glazed external side access door. In addition to providing useful storage or parking, the garage offers potential for conversion into additional living accommodation, subject to the necessary consents and building regulations.
IN SUMMARY
If you're looking for a project with the potential to create a superb family home, then this house could be just the ticket!
In need of full modernisation, it offers generous accommodation, a rear garden of approximately 60ft and an integral garage with potential for conversion.
The ground floor features a particularly sunny 20ft rear lounge and a generous 17ft kitchen/diner plus there's scope to open these rooms up to create a fabulous open-plan kitchen/dining/family room, with the garage potentially becoming a separate snug or additional reception room.
Upstairs, all four bedrooms are a good size, complemented by a family bathroom, while a ground floor cloakroom adds convenience. There's also excellent storage in the entrance hall, double-glazed windows and solar panels already in place.
The property will require comprehensive updating, including a new kitchen and bathroom, re-wiring, new boiler and radiators, and full re-decoration, but for buyers keen to put their own stamp on a home, the possibilities are clear.
Offered for sale as a probate sale, with probate applied for, the property is thus being sold with no onward chain.
Keys are held, allowing for straightforward, informal viewings.
SEE THE POTENTIAL AND MAKE IT YOUR OWN!
Council Tax
Basildon Council, Band E
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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.
