Fairfield Rise, Billericay

OIEO £700,000 - New Instruction


Boasting a huge 35ft x 12ft fully detached Double length Garage and an 80 ft wide plot, this 2/3 bedroom Bungalow is literally just a stone's throw from open countryside yet also just half a mile from Billericay High Street - the perfect retirement move.

The extensive and beautifully maintained front gardens give the property great kerbside appeal and compliment the rear Garden which is short but very wide and due South facing, providing easy low maintenance looking after within a Sun Trap enviroment. Plus a wide area to the side of the property gives more space for a private patio, an allotment area, or maybe even an additional side extension. Perhaps it could also be the site of a new garage if you were able to convert the existing garage to an Annexe (subject to local authority approval of course).

The property is somewhat dated throughout but very liveable and offers a blank canvas for the next owners.

Internally, the accommodation briefly comprises:

• A large Hall

• Huge 23' × 14'6" triple aspect Lounge with open Fireplace

• Separate Dining Room (optional third bedroom as the Lounge is certainly big enough to be used as a Lounge/Diner)

• Both the Lounge and Dining Room sport glazed double doors from the Hall

• Large Kitchen/Breakfast Room

• Two identical-sized double bedrooms within the bedroom wing

• Very large bathroom

The property also benefits from full gas central heating, double-glazed windows and NO ONWARD CHAIN.


The Accommodation in more detail:


HALL 13ft x 7ft (3.96m x 2.13m)

A nice and spacious first entrance with a circular stained glass window in the exposed feature brick wall.



LOUNGE 23ft 6" x 14ft 5" (7.16m x 4.39m)

A set of glazed double doors from the Hall swing open to this splendidly proportioned, triple aspect living room, flooded with light from all angles and with the focal point, the Yorkstone fireplace.

10 feet (3.05m) wide, the sliding patio doors also provide access to the garden.



DINING ROOM 11ft 2" x 8ft 5" (3.40m x 2.57m)

Again with a set of glazed double doors from the Hall, this versatile front-facing room could equally be adapted for use as a third bedroom.



KITCHEN/BREAKFAST ROOM 14ft 7" x 10ft 9" (4.45m x 3.28m)

A large kitchen allowing for a comprehensive range of fitted kitchen units.

There is a freestanding electric cooker which is to remain; the undercounter fridge, undercounter freezer, tumble dryer and washing machine all potentially to remain as well, subject to negotiation.

A glazed door with accompanying window leads out to the rear garden.



INNER HALL 6ft 2" x 5ft 9" (1.88m x 1.75m)

Loft hatch accessing the attic space and three internal doors leading off to the two bedrooms and bathroom.



BEDROOM ONE 11ft 8" x 9ft 10" (3.56m x 3.00m)

A front-facing double bedroom enjoying a pleasant outlook over the street and with dated but functional fitted bedroom furniture (wardrobes, chest of drawers, bedside cabinets).



BEDROOM TWO 11ft 8" x 9ft 10" (3.56m x 3.00m)

Identical in size to Bedroom One, this bedroom is situated to the rear of the bungalow, also coming with dated yet functional fitted bedroom furniture (wardrobes, dressing table, chest drawers and bedside cabinets).



BATHROOM 8ft 3" x 7ft (2.51m x 2.13m)

In need of updating but perfectly functional and notably large.

The wide rear-facing window provides plenty of natural light.



EXTERIOR

FRONT

Nearly 80 feet (24.38m) wide, and set back some 37 feet (11m), the grounds to the front are quite expansive.

There is plenty of room for the two-car block-paved drive and two large lawns either side of the central path.

It would of course be possible to have the option of an in-and-out drive.

Between the main Bungalow and the huge Garage is a gated side access, with there plenty of width to the other side too, to have the same (currently simply fenced off).



GARAGE 35ft x 11ft 10" (10.67m x 3.61m)

Huge!

The pitched roof enhances its feeling of space and provides storage up in the rafters.

The garage door is remote controlled electric.

Natural light comes in through two windows and a part-glazed courtesy door provides access in and out from the garden. We noted a fuse box on the wall providing the garage with electricity and lighting.


GARDEN

South facing and paved for low maintenance.

There's extra garden area down one side too.



WHAT WE THOUGHT

The Garage is a cracking size and would make a great separate Annexe for elderly family members as well as the obvious Home Office, Studio, small business premises (Treatment Room etc)

You could also lose the rear half to gain more garden.

We spyed a circular window in the attic space and with the pitch looking tall enough to potentially take a Loft Conversion - that could be another way of adding value to the property.




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.
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Parking Yes
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