Sitting well back from the road, this charming three-bedroom bay-fronted semi-detached home with high ceilings, offers a fantastic opportunity for buyers looking to add their own touch.
Boasting a long driveway and an impressive double-length garage, this property provides ample parking and storage, making it ideal for families or those in need of extra space. The home is perfectly positioned on a generous plot, with a stunning 154' westerly-facing garden, capturing the afternoon and evening sun perfect for outdoor entertaining or simply unwinding.
The property itself is in need of updating, presenting an exciting prospect for renovation and personalization. A rear extension has already been added, offering superb potential for reconfiguration to create a modern and open-plan layout.
Whether you're envisioning a stylish, sociable hub or a cosy retreat, the scope for enhancement is endless.
Conveniently located, the property is just a short stroll from a selection of everyday shops, ensuring that all your essentials are within easy reach. For families, both a popular primary school and a well-regarded secondary school are nearby, making school runs simple for all.
For those who enjoy dining out or a leisurely drink, there are a couple of local pubs within walking distance, each offering delicious meals and a warm, welcoming atmosphere. Whether you're looking for a quiet evening out or a Sunday lunch with family, there's something to suit all tastes. This combination of convenience and lifestyle makes this home an attractive proposition for a wide range of buyers.
With so much potential and an unbeatable location, this home is a rare find and a must-see for those looking to create something special.
ACCOMMODATION AS FOLLOWS
HALLWAY
A spacious entrance hall with plenty of room to welcome guests, the stairs with under storage space, lead to the first floor and doors providing access to both reception rooms and the kitchen.
SITTING/DINING ROOM 4.41m x 4.31m (14'5 x 14'1)
A generously sized room featuring a deep bay window to the front and a feature fireplace. Originally the lounge, this space now after the kitchen extension, serves as a substantial second sitting room.
REAR LIVING ROOM 6.7m x 3.57m (21'11 x 11'8)
The rear extension has significantly enhanced this reception space, creating a more open and versatile area. With direct access to the kitchen's dining area, there is great potential to reconfigure this into a large, open-plan kitchen diner.
KITCHEN DINER 5.67m x 2.14m (18'7 x 7)
Featuring side and rear windows and a door leading to the attached garage, this space is ready for a modern transformation.
The existing units are usable but will require replacement, and with ample room for a dining table under the rear window, a well-thought-out redesign could maximize functionality and style.
LANDING
A side window allows natural light to flood the landing, which provides access to all three bedrooms and the bathroom.
BEDROOM ONE 4.17m x 3.62m (13'8 x 11'10)
A spacious double bedroom with a UPVC double-glazed window to the front.
The chimney breast could offer the potential for an elegant focal point, while the high ceilings enhance the sense of space.
BEDROOM TWO 4.12m x 3.63m (13'6 x 11'10)
A well-proportioned room with a UPVC double-glazed window overlooking the impressive 154' rear garden.
Another chimney breast presents an opportunity to incorporate a fireplace-style focal point.
BEDROOM THREE 2.24m x 2.13m (7'4 x 6'11)
Facing the front, this bedroom is an ample size for a single bed, making it ideal as a child's room, guest room, or home office.
SEPARATE WC
Fitted with a low-level WC and a UPVC window to the side.
BATHROOM
A bright space with a window to the side and a white suite comprising a panel-enclosed bath with mixer taps, a separate shower unit, and a wash basin with mixer taps.
OUTSIDE
FRONT
The property is set well back from the road, featuring a lawn and a generously sized driveway with the potential to be further extended.
REAR GARDEN
An impressive 154' deep garden, enjoying a desirable westerly aspect and commencing a patio area.
Mostly laid to lawn, to the rear is a retired vegetable plot and a garden shed.
DOUBLE-LENGTH GARAGE 9.22m x 2.57m (30'3 x 8'5)
Attached to the side of the house, this substantial garage, along with the good-sized driveway, provides excellent covered parking and storage.
Alternatively, with double doors opening to the garden. it presents an exciting opportunity for conversion into additional living or kitchen space.
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.
