It's rare for a property such as this to come available within the open market. Thoughtful design and reconfiguration have created a lovely spacious contemporary styled home. Planning is already approved for a garage conversion which gives you the option of adding another element of external styling.
With four good sized bedrooms, together with a stylishly finished en-suite shower room and family bathroom, the first floor will meet most family needs.
The ground floor has also benefited greatly from the modern styling and improvements that have been made. Firstly, there is now a remodeled entrance and ground floor WC with utility space, plus a fantastic kitchen/diner with a stunning aluminum glazed extension which not only accommodates a sleek kitchen with white quartz tops, but with the property being elevated do you have southerly views over rooftops with woodland on the horizon. A really quite unusual view from your kitchen sink!
In addition, there are many thoughtful design tweaks throughout this home, which subtly add to its uniqueness. These features include Oak flooring, wall panel radiators, a pocket door, a wider than usual front door, a powerful 38 kW Combi boiler, coasted aluminum framed windows on the front elevation and built-in wardrobes to the main bedroom with concealed home office, desk space.
Without doubt, a home, worthy of consideration.
ACCOMMODATION AS FOLLOWS...
ENTRANCE HALL
A wider than usual entrance door immediately adds to the unique feel you have in this home.
Engineered oak flooring ensures this is a practical entrance space perfect for dirty shoes, coats, prams, and parcels.
A sliding pocket door opens to the combined ground floor cloakroom/utility while patio doors lead straight into the open plan living room.
CLOAK/UTILITY ROOM
Oak flooring continues into this space where there is a built-in recess housing a washing machine and tumble dryer which will not remain.
In the front section is a window and completing this useful addition, there is a refitted white pushbutton WC and wall mounted vanity unit and handbasin.
LIVING ROOM 8.24m x 3.74m > 2.76m (27'1 x 12'3 > 9'1)
Extending the full depth of the house, the living space with a very handy deep built-in storage cupboard and stairs rising to the first floor, will give you plenty of room to spread out and the ability to incorporate a lounge area, playroom and home office space.
Open access is then into the kitchen diner.
KITCHEN DINER 5.69m x 3.77m > 3.38m (18'8 x 12'4 > 11'1)
This is a stunning space with the anthracite powder coated, aluminium framed glazed extension with vaulted ceiling and triple sliding doors out to the patio, brings space and style to the hub of the home.
The engineered oak flooring with corner inset up lighters will create a calm evening ambience.
Contrasting grey and white fronted units with white quartz tops and a slate slip splashback, incorporate various integrated appliances to give a sleek contemporary theme.
Appliances include a 70/30 fridge/freezer, a recently installed dishwasher, two Neff ovens to include a combination oven, microwave and grill, and an induction hob with cooker hood above.
The undercounter sink unit with mixer taps and pendant lighting above is incorporated within the quartz wrapped breakfast bar with further storage below.
It's worth taking a moment to notice the lovely views afforded from room thanks to the elevated plot on which this house sits.
LANDING
An open stairwell gives a lovely spacious feel to the landing where there is a modern Oak balustrade staircase, an access point to the loft and doors opening to the bedrooms.
BEDROOM ONE 4.11m x 3.75m (13'6 x 12'4)
The front extension helped create this lovely main bedroom, there are fitted wardrobes with sliding doors to one wall, within these there is a concealed home office desk space that can be shut away outside of office hours!
A door also opens to the ensuite shower room.
ENSUITE SHOWER ROOM
With the extension only completed in 2019, this modern fitted shower room with tiling to the walls and floor is a perfect complement to the house.
The suite consists of a pushbutton WC, a vanity unit with wash basin and mixer taps and a large walk-in shower with a hand attachment and drench head all controlled by a remote digital shower unit.
BEDROOM TWO 3.38m x 2.91m (11'1 x 9'7)
This rear facing bedroom enjoys distant views and has a generous amount of floor space.
BEDROOM THREE 3.46m x 2.49m (11'4 x 8'2)
Positioned to the front of the property, this third room is another generous one.
BEDROOM FOUR 2.93m x 2.76m (9'7 x 9'1)
Again, this is a rear facing bedroom with lovely views, and although it could accommodate a small double bed, it is a lovely sized room for a single bed and accompanying furniture.
BATHROOM
Fitted out in a modern style similar to the ensuite and ground floor cloakroom, this bathroom with tiled floors and walls has a three-piece white suite.
This suite incorporates a bathroom unit with pushbutton WC, a wash basin with mixer taps and a panel enclose bath with separate shower with drench head and hand attachment.
OUTSIDE
FRONT
To the front of the house is a lawn area and driveway providing ample parking for several vehicles.
GARAGE 5.41m x 2.4m (17'9 x 7'11)
This has an up and over door with power and light connected.
The current owners have permission granted for a garage conversion, which would increase the internal living room space while incorporating a front window under a small, pitched roof.
REAR GARDEN
Commencing with a small patio to the side of the glazed extension this garden enjoys a glorious southerly aspect, as well as distant views.
The remainder of this manageable garden is mainly lawn with a gravel path to one side and to the rear corner is a pergola with fitted bench seats.
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.
