Rarely do houses with this enviable style of open plan accommodation come available to the open market, in what is arguably one of Billericay's prime residential areas, being within close proximity of the both the mainline railway station, town centre and the well-respected Quilters school area. Over recent years this home as undergone a meticulous plan of both large and small improvements both inside and out. It's fair to say this home will provide you with the space and finishing spec that the large majority of buyers would ideally opt for when undertaking these projects.
Internally the accommodation is stylishly presented and well balanced between both floors. The well planned first floor offers four good sized bedrooms, each of which could accommodate a double bed, with three of these enjoying built in wardrobes. However, special note should really be given to both the four-piece bathroom with a contemporary freestanding oval bath and the matching en-suite shower room with a walk in double shower with a rain head shower. These rooms were refitted at the same time using matching suites to ensure continuity flows and the styling is seamless.
It is within the ground floor of this house where the most recent project is found, there is of course a welcoming hall, a separate lounge with a deep bay window and fitted plantation shutters and a refitted ground floor cloakroom but in addition to all of this, there is a full width kitchen and large dining area with tiled underfloor heating and 6 panel bi folding doors opening onto the deck. You will also find a good sized home office with French doors opening out onto the kitchen/dining area. The property was extended in 2018 to include a large playroom with velux window to add extra light, which leads onto the utility room.
To the exterior of the property the front has been attractively brick paved, while the approx. 48' rear garden has benefited from an extensive split level deck, sleeper edged shrub beds and a small children's play area with rubber play bark chippings.
In all this home offers the epitome of modern day living in a most convenient location for all that the town of Billericay has to offer.
Entrance Hall
Approached by a covered external porch and with a combination of wood style flooring and contrasting striped carpet to the balustrade stairwell, this hall creates a stylish welcoming space to the home.
Cloakroom
The wood style flooring continues into this room which has been refitted in a modern white suite.
Lounge 4.57 > 3.85m x 4.08m (14ft11" > 12ft7" x 13ft4")
This square shaped room enjoys a deep bay window, a gas fireplace and plantation shutters that help create a sense of calmness to this room.
Kitchen Diner Day Room 6.72m > 5.59m x 5.46m (22ft > 18ft4" x 17ft10")
This cleverly designed room with 6 panel bi-folding doors provides a stunning hub to the house, incorporating a dining area to accompany the tiled kitchen with its under floor heating. Currently fitted out in an appealing range of curved cornered white fronted units with a matching island and dark granite tops and with integrated NEFF appliances include a dishwasher, microwave, double electric oven and a 5 ring gas hob with a glass trimmed cooker hood. French doors leading to...
Playroom 4.87m x 2.63m (16ft x 8ft8")
Accessed via the kitchen, this addition of the playroom to the property is what separates this house from others. With an inbuilt bookcase, connections for a TV, and windows on 2 sides, plus a Velux window to bring in extra light, this makes for a perfect space for young children with all their toys, or older children for a separate games/TV room.
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Utility Room 2.4m x 1.69m (7ft11" x 5ft6")
Fitted units with sink unit, washing machine and tumble dryer including recess for upright fridge freezer.
Landing
The striped carpet continues from the stairs and onto the landing as do the white painted balustrades. A side window provides natural light, panel doors lead into each room and there is access to a boarded full-width loft with drop down step ladder .
Bedroom One 3.92m x 3.45m plus wardrobes (12ft10" x 11ft3")
Two built in double wardrobes with matching panel doors are flush to one wall, there is an adjacent papered feature wall and a door to the en-suite.
En-Suite Shower Room
A fully tiled room with a stylish modern white suite that matches that of the bathroom, comprising of a wall hung WC with concealed cistern, wall mounted wash hand with vanity cupboard under and a double width walk in shower with fitted cupboard and a luxurious rain head shower together with additional hand shower attachment. A heated towel rail, fitted mirror and inset downlighters complete the modern look.
Bedroom Two 3.61m x 3.04m (11ft10" x 9ft11")
Again, a nice square shaped double room with a rear facing window and with a built in double wardrobe.
Bedroom Three 2.65m x 3.15m (8ft8" x 10ft4")
The wood style flooring and feature papered wall adds to the relaxed feel of this double bedroom with a built in double wardrobe
Bedroom Four 3.71m x 2.37m (12ft2" x 7ft9")
An excellent sized fourth bedroom with clear floor space and a rear facing window.
Refitted Family Bathroom
This again is an aesthetically pleasing room with wood style flooring and complimentary tiling to the splash back areas. The four piece suite matches that of the en-suite and comprising of a wall hung WC with concealed cistern, wall mounted wash hand with vanity cupboard under, shower cubicle and a contemporary freestanding oval bath with a corner positioned tap fitting with a hand shower attachment. Heated towel rail, fitted mirrored storage, shaver socket and inset downlighters.
External store 2.04m x 2.64m (6ft8" x 8ft7")
What remains of the garage is now a handy external store that is accessed via an up and over door.
Rear Garden
Measuring approx. 48ft in depth, this garden commences a raised "L" shaped deck with split levels, the remainder being mainly lawn with sleeper edged shrub borders and children's play area with rubber safety chippings to the rear corner. There is space and access to the side, an outside water tap, power point and a garden shed which we understand will remain.
Front
Much of the front area has been attractively brick paved to provide parking and access to the garage. To the front left corner, the owners have thoughtfully retained a brick edged shrub bed.
Council Tax
Basildon Council, Band G
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.
