- Town Centre Location With The High St Being Just Being a Few Minutes Walk Away
- Distant Views To Rear
- Three Bedrooms (Two Having Built in Wardrobes)
- Newly Fitted Bathroom
- Open Plan Ground Floor Living Space
- Ground Floor Cloakroom
- Rewired With New Sockets and Consumer Unit
- 60' Rear Garden
- Garage In Block
- Viewing Recommended
Conveniently placed in a quiet residential road on the doorstep of Billericay High Street and within a stones throw of the Train Station, this three-bedroom semi-detached house with a 60' garden and potential for enlargement, (STPC) is certainly a home to consider.
It is unusual for a property of this standard to be available within the open market and the depth of work undertaken by the current owners goes beyond what you see in the photos. In addition to complete redecoration and new fittings throughout, this property has also had an electrical re-wire including chrome switches and new consumer unit, a new Ideal Combi boiler and smooth plastered walls and ceilings.
As you can see from the photos there is a tasteful contemporary Open Plan feel to the ground floor living space at this house, an arrangement we often find to be in high demand.
With the ground floor having practical laminate floors, the carpeted first floor gives you a more cosy feel to the bedrooms. It's worth noting two of these bedrooms have built-in wardrobes and are all served by an equally stylish refitted fully tiled bathroom.
When standing in the two rear bedrooms, the lounge and on the rear patio, your eyes can't help to be drawn to the distant views this elevated Town centre position commands. Off into the distance and over the roof tops you have Norsey Woods, Moses Spring Wood, Barrenleys Wood aswell as Ramsden Bellhouse and beyond sitting on the horizon. An ever-changing seasonal vista.
In view of the standard of presentation at this house and the newness of everything within we would certainly recommend you making an early enquiry to register for the first viewing opportunities.
ACCOMMODATION AS FOLLOWS...
HALLWAY
The UPVC entrance door gives access to a lovely light and bright entrance hall which has a wood effect laminate floor with grey tones. The stone-grey painted balustrade stairs with a woven carpet leads to the first floor.
Within the hallway is a built-in storage cupboard, a door to a WC, a door to the lounge and an open access to the kitchen.
CLOAKROOM
As you would expect, this smallest room in the house has not been forgotten.
Stylishly decorated with wood panelling to the lower level of the walls, the white suite consists of a wc with concealed cistern and a corner Burlington ceramic sink with mixer tap which completes the classic look.
KITCHEN 4.66m x 3.09m (15'3 x 10'1)
This well-designed front facing kitchen with inset downlighters was only completed in June 2021, it affords good natural light, and the contemporary feeling is emphasised by a well-chosen range of white coloured shaker units with complimentary marble effect worktops and up stands.
The worktops incorporate a peninsula breakfast bar and concealed within the cabinets is a dishwasher, washer dryer, larder fridge, larder freezer, AEG hob, AEG electric oven and separate microwave. Beneath the oven and hob are pull out pan draws which, just like the others draws are soft closing.
LIVING ROOM 4.94m x 5.17m > 3.85m (16'2 x 16'11 > 12'6)
Being open plan to the kitchen and with the laminate flooring flowing seamlessly between, the combined living space on the ground floor oozes social functionality.
Wide, infact almost full width double doors open on to the garden and from your sofa you are able to take in the views.
Also, don't forget the discreetly placed large under stairs cupboard giving a good level of storage and the wall point for the tv.
LANDING
As mentioned, there is a carpeted stairs which as you step off the ground floor laminate immediately adds that extra level of cosiness up to the bedrooms.
From here there is an access point to the loft where the newly installed Ideal Combi boiler is, there are two built-in storage cupboards and doors lead to each of the bedrooms and bathroom.
BEDROOM ONE 3.99 x 3.14m (13'1 x 10'3)
As you can tell from the measurements this is a lovely size bedroom which not only has a built-in double wardrobe with stylish grey panelled doors and black handles but through the wide rear window you enjoy a commanding view over East Billericay with Norsey Woods, Moses Spring Woods and fields sitting on the horizon.
In addition, there is a high-level power point for a wall mounted tv.
BEDROOM TWO 3.15m x 2.94m (10'3 x 9'7)
This generously sized and stylishly decorated, front facing second double bedroom, also has its own built in double wardrobe.
BEDROOM THREE 2.77m x 1.92m (9'1 x 6'3)
Although the third bedroom is frequently a home office, this one actually has adequate space for a bed and with a rear facing bedroom you will also be able to enjoy that fantastic distant view, perhaps even during Zoom meetings!
BATHROOM
Just like the rest of the house this room has also recently been refitted and is very much on point with the latest styles.
The white suite compliments the floor and wall marble effect tiles which have a discreet chrome edging that tie in nicely with the chrome tap furniture and heated towel rail.
The suite consists of a shower bath with a glass screen enclosure, chrome mixer taps and a matching separate shower that has both a hand attachment and an adjustable drench shower head. There is also a close coupled push button wc and a square ceramic sink unit sitting on a vanity basin with 2 light grey coloured pull out draws.
Finally, there is a chrome heated towel rail and inset spots to complete the modern finish.
OUTSIDE
FRONT
To provide additional parking to the garage, the front of the house has been paved to provide immediate parking for 2/3 cars depending on their size.
REAR GARDEN
The rear garden measures approx. 60' in depth it has a patio area that also affords the open views towards Norsey Woods and beyond plus split-level lawns.
Attached to the rear of the house is also a handy brick-built storage shed, an outside power point, a water tap and a gate providing access out to the front of the house.
Council Tax
Basildon Council, Band D
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.
