BRAND NEW 5 Bedroom Detached House with a 4-Car Drive and 60ft South-West facing Garden, in a prime commuter location and just 1 point away from an A rating on the EPC!
A footpath 'between the houses' a few doors down means you can be standing on the Platform at Billericay Railway Station in two minutes and with a 35 minute journey time to London Liverpool Street makes this home incredibly appealing to City Workers.
Billericay High Street is just a 5 minute stroll, Lake Meadows Park is even closer at 3-4 minutes' walk plus of course it also falls within the catchment of Buttsbury and Mayflower Schools.
The Heart of this super-efficient Home is the much-desired large open plan Kitchen/Dining/Family Room with a big Skylight and Bi-folding Doors to the rear, along with a separate front Lounge, separate Utility Room, ground floor Wet Room/WC, three First Floor Bedrooms (including the Master with an Ensuite Shower Room and separate Dressing Room), two top floor bedrooms and a further Bathroom on each of the upper floors.
Features include Underfloor Heating on all floors, Solar Panels for cost saving on the electricity, CAT 6 cabling for fast broadband and in house connectivity, Quartz Kitchen worktops, Miele ovens and a 'Pod Point' Electric Car Charger.
The Accommodation in more detail:
Sturdy composite 'anthracite Grey' on the front/white on the inside woodgrain textured front door through to:
HALLWAY
A long wide Hallway with attractive wood laminate flooring that extends on into the Utility Room, large cupboard under the stairs and into the Kitchen/Dining/Day Room.
A side facing window brings in natural light and a wall mounted Nu-Heat thermostat controls the underfloor heating - as found in all rooms.
OPEN PLAN KITCHEN/DINING/DAY ROOM 26ft 3" x 17ft 4" (8.00m X 5.28m).
The Kitchen area has been fitted with on-trend Grey Shaker style kitchen units topped with Callacatta 'Oro Gold' Quartz worktops and incorporating an undercounter Butler sink and with the 10 foot (3.05m) long Island unit a great social gathering point and 4-seater breakfast bar, as well as a huge food preparation area.
A host of appliances comprise a 5-Ring Gas Hob, Twin Miele Multifunction Oven/Grills, an integrated Dishwasher and integrated tall Larder Fridge and matching tall Freezer.
The Day Room far end is bathed in light by a 12 feet (3.66m) wide set of folding doors and a large skylight above. Further light coming in through the twin side facing windows too.
EVENING LOUNGE/SNUG 12ft 5" x 12ft (3.78m X 3.66m)
A cozy carpeted front room with a wide walk-in Bay window.
UTILITY ROOM 7ft 7" x 6ft 8" (2.31m x 2.03m)
Also fitted with range of Shaker style units topped with Quartz, this time in light grey.
Twin tall matching cupboards house a Tempest Hot Water cylinder in one (working in conjunction with the Vaillant ecoTEC plus 630 Combination Boiler) and the electrical consumer unit, manifolds for the underfloor heating and two ethernet cable networking socket boxes in the other one.
GROUND FLOOR WET ROOM/WC 7ft 3" x 4ft 9" (2.21m X 1.45m).
Fully tiled and fitted with a Vanity Unit, close coupled WC and a fixed Grohe Shower System over the sleek shower drain, integrated within the tile floor.
Stairs from hallway to:
1st FLOOR LANDING
Very spacious and with a 4ft x 3ft 5" (1.22m x 1.04m) walk-in store cupboard housing the manifolds for the first floor underfloor heating.
MASTER BEDROOM 14ft'1" x 11ft 1" (4.29m X 3.38m)
Being rear facing, and thus enjoying south facing sunshine, this is also another room flooded with light in the afternoon and evenings.
With a handy wall mounted Texecom Premier alarm panel
ENSUITE DRESSING ROOM 6ft 6" x 5ft 10" (1.98m x 1.78m).
A blank room ready to be fitted out and with a sun tunnel providing natural light.
ENSUITE SHOWER ROOM 7ft 1" x 5ft 9" (2.16m X 1.75m).
Like the wet room on the ground floor, also fully tiled with attractive ceramics and featuring a 1750mm x 750mm walk-in shower.
Again, having a rear facing window makes this a very well lit bathroom too.
BEDROOM THREE 13ft 6" x 9ft 10" (4.11m X 3.00m)
A front facing double bedroom.
(Note bedrooms Two and Four are - in terms of size - up on the top floor).
BEDROOM FIVE 11ft 3" x 7ft 2" (3.43m X 2.18m).
A front facing single bedroom.
MAIN FAMILY BATHROOM 7ft 7" x 5ft 9" (2.31m X 1.75m).
With the same attractive tiles as the Ensuite and Wet Room, this time with a full size Bath with a separate shower over.
Stairs from 1st Floor Landing to:
2nd FLOOR LANDING
Essentially a duplicate of the first floor landing, also having a built-in cupboard, slightly smaller this time, and also housing the 'Growatt' controls for the Solar Panels as well as the manifolds for the underfloor heating.
BEDROOM TWO 14ft 4" x 10ft (4.37m X 3.05m).
A lovely size bedroom with a great outlook, to the right particularly far reaching.
BEDROOM FOUR 12ft 2" x 10ft (3.71m X 3.05m).
A fine size front facing double bedroom.
SHOWER ROOM 9ft 1" x 4ft (2.77m X 1.22m).
Another duplicate of the others, this one featuring a 1200mm x 750mm walk-in double shower.
GARDEN
Commencing with a tiled effect patio below the upper projection.
The balance is laid to lawn with a large central tree.
FRONT
There is 4-Car Driveway and with the removal of the planted bed on the left, it could arguably fit six cars.
Access on one side although the right hand side narrow fence panel could so easily be converted to a gate.
SOLAR ASSISTED
For the technically minded, we understand the solar output is expected to be approx. 1,788.48 kWh/annum.
ENERGY RATING
99 - B Rating
Council Tax
Basildon Council, Band F
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.
| Utility |
Supply Type |
| Electric |
Mains Supply |
| Gas |
Mains Supply |
| Water |
Mains Supply |
| Sewerage |
Mains Supply |
| Broadband |
None |
| Telephone |
Landline |
| Other Items |
Description |
| Heating |
Under Floor Heating |
| Garden/Outside Space |
Yes |
| Parking |
Yes |
| Garage |
No |
| Broadband Coverage |
Highest Available Download Speed |
Highest Available Upload Speed |
| Standard |
16 Mbps |
1 Mbps |
| Superfast |
75 Mbps |
18 Mbps |
| Ultrafast |
1000 Mbps |
220 Mbps |
| Mobile Coverage |
Indoor Voice |
Indoor Data |
Outdoor Voice |
Outdoor Data |
| EE |
Enhanced |
Enhanced |
Enhanced |
Enhanced |
| Three |
Enhanced |
Enhanced |
Enhanced |
Enhanced |
| O2 |
Enhanced |
Likely |
Enhanced |
Enhanced |
| Vodafone |
Likely |
Likely |
Enhanced |
Enhanced |
Broadband and Mobile coverage information supplied by Ofcom.
