This is a fantastic opportunity to acquire a classic 1960s-built chalet home that sits well back from the road and boasts an approximate 80' garden, along with extended accommodation. This good-sized property combines spacious living areas with a generous garden, making it an ideal choice for families or anyone seeking versatile ground floor living space.
Conveniently placed being approximately just 0.6 miles from the train station with the High Street just beyond, (a reported 15 minute walk), along the way you have a range of amenities to meet your everyday needs these include a gym, café Sainsbury's express and a parade of shops, takeaways and a local pub.
Within half a mile, you'll also discover Lake Meadows, Brightside Primary School, and an abundance of surrounding farmland, providing endless opportunities for walks and outdoor activities.
The property has been thoughtfully extended, offering accommodation that now reaches approximately 13000 sqft. The four bedrooms are split between the ground and first floors, with two on each level. Additionally, there are two shower rooms, one on each floor, providing convenience for all occupants.
During the extension, one of the original bedrooms was removed, resulting in a larger hallway. This spacious hallway offers ample room for a desk or bureau, creating the perfect designated space for a home office.
Both the lounge and kitchen have been enlarged and so the lounge now has a separate sitting area with double doors open to the garden and the kitchen with space for a dining table.
As you can see from the photos, the property has been well cared for and is clean and tidy throughout. It just needs some cosmetic upgrades. In recent times has been replacement Ideal Combi gas boiler and the windows have been replaced with UPVC double glazing.
The outdoor space is equally impressive. The front driveway is large enough to comfortably accommodate several cars and includes a detached garage, which opens onto the rear garden.
The garden, enjoying a favoured southerly aspect, is a peaceful retreat with well-established borders, a patio area, while a couple of apple trees that add to its charm.
All the key elements for creating a fabulous home that will serve you well for many years are present in this property. With its combination of space, convenience, and potential, it is an opportunity worth considering.
ACCOMMODATION AS FOLLOWS..
HALLWAY
The L-shaped hallway provides space for a home office setup.
It features a window on the side, allowing natural light and staircase to the first floor, a built-in storage cupboard and doors provide access to each of the ground-floor rooms.
KITCHEN 6.08m x 3.66m > 3.31m (19'11 x 12'> 10'10)
This extended kitchen diner is bright and functional.
With a window to the side, there are kitchen cabinets fitted along three sides, offering plenty of storage, it also includes a stainless-steel single-drainer sink unit with mixer taps, and space for all essential appliances such as a washing machine, cooker, fridge, and freezer. There is also a built-in cupboard that houses the Ideal combination boiler.
An open arched access leads to the dining area, from here you can look out onto the garden and there is also a door that opens onto the patio, making it a perfect spot for indoor-outdoor dining.
LOUNGE SITTING ROOM 7.72m x 3.36m (25'4 x 11)
The lounge has been extended to create both a comfortable lounging area and a naturally bright sitting area.
French doors at the rear of the room provide a wonderful view of the rear garden, and when opened, allow for a seamless transition to the outdoor space.
The room also includes a feature fireplace with an electric fire and six light points, providing both added warmth and ambience.
BEDROOM ONE 3.83m x 3.36m (12'7 x 11')
The main bedroom is a spacious double, featuring a front-facing window and it comes with built-in wardrobes, complete with smoked mirrored sliding doors, offering ample storage space.
BEDROOM TWO 3.38m x 2.49m (11'1 x 8'2)
This second ground-floor bedroom, or additional reception room, features windows on both the front and side, ensuring plenty of light and versatility in its use.
GROUND-FLOOR SHOWER ROOM
The ground-floor shower room has a side window, heated towel, tiled floor, and fully tiled walls. It features a large corner shower cubicle with sliding doors and a modern showerhead.
Built-in units provide additional storage space and incorporate a wash basin with mixer taps, as well as a push-button WC.
FIRST FLOOR
LANDING
Although this is a chalet-style home, much of the first-floor benefits from full head height, ensuring it feels spacious and comfortable.
There is a built-in storage cupboard, and doors lead to the two bedrooms and the first-floor shower room.
BEDROOM THREE 3.43m x 3.15m (11'3 x 10'4)
Located at the front of the house, this double bedroom offers eaves storage as well as a built-in double wardrobe, providing plenty of space for clothing and personal items.
BEDROOM FOUR 3m x 2.45m (9'10 x 8')
This is a good-sized single room with a view of the rear garden also has built-in double wardrobes, adding functionality and convenience.
SHOWER ROOM
The second shower room on the first floor is another well-equipped room, with a side window and a chrome towel rail. The fully tiled space features a white suite, including a wash basin with mixer taps, a push-button WC, and a shower cubicle with a Triton electric shower.
OUTSIDE
FRONT
This property sits well back from the road, offering a driveway that can comfortably accommodate several vehicles.
The driveway incorporates a turning area at the front, extends to the side of the house, and leads to the garage.
GARAGE 5.14m x 2.52m (16'10 x 8'3)
The garage features an up-and-over door, power and light, and a UPVC window. A side door opens directly onto the rear garden.
REAR GARDEN
Measuring approximately 80' in depth, the garden begins with a patio area extending alongside the garage. Behind the garage, there is space for a shed, while the rest of the garden is predominantly lawn with established borders, including a couple of apple trees.
This property offers an excellent blend of indoor and outdoor living space, with room for personalisation to create your perfect home.
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.
