Situated in a quiet cul-de-sac within the sought-after area of North Billericay, this three-bedroom semi-detached house offers spacious accommodation combined with an exceptionally convenient location perfect for work, rest, and play!
For city commuters, Billericay Railway Station is just 0.9 miles away, accessible via a pleasant walk through Lake Meadows Park, with the park's north entrance only a 4-minute stroll from your doorstep. Billericay High Street is just a minute further, precisely 1 mile away, providing easy access to shops, cafes, and local amenities.
For families with young children, the highly regarded Buttsbury Infant School, boasting an Outstanding OFSTED rating, is just a 3-minute walk around the corner. The Junior School on Norsey View Drive is only a couple of minutes further. Local shops on Stock Road are within an easy 5-6 minute stroll, with Mayflower High School conveniently located just a little further up the road. Additionally, the ancient Norsey Woods offer tranquil surroundings for evening and weekend walks.
Inside, the house features three generously sized bedrooms and a large family bathroom, which could be reconfigured to create an ensuite for one of the bedrooms. The ground floor includes a spacious hallway, leading to a wide lounge-diner with views of the garden. The lounge-diner seamlessly opens into the kitchen, creating a perfect space for family living and entertaining.
The rear garden, complete with an adjoining single garage, backs onto the nature reserve area of Buttsbury School playing fields, providing a peaceful, unoverlooked wooded backdrop.
ACCOMODATION AS FOLLOWS
HALLWAY 11ft5" x 6ft2" ( 3.49m x 1.89m)
The UPVC entrance door opens into a welcoming hallway, complete with wood-effect flooring a practical and inviting area to greet your guests.
A staircase leads upstairs, while a door opens into the lounge-diner.
LOUNGE AREA 12ft' x 11ft 3" ( 3.66m x 3.43m )
The wood flooring extends into this comfortable reception space, which is perfectly sized for a cozy corner sofa.
This area features a window overlooking the garden, and within the access point to the dining area, there is also a door leading out to the garden.
DINING AREA 9ft 4" x 8ft 2" ( 2.84m x 2.49m )
As you can see, the dining area is open to the lounge, with a window looking out onto the garden and direct access to the kitchen.
KITCHEN 9ft9" x 9ft5" (2.99m x 2.88m)
The kitchen enjoys a modern feel, with cream-coloured units and complementary countertops.
Integrated appliances, including a washing machine, dishwasher, fridge, and freezer, give the space a sleek and tidy appearance.
Being positioned on the side of the house, the kitchen features a window and a door leading to the shared driveway, which is likely to become your most frequently used day-to-day entrance!
Concealed within one corner cupboard is the newly installed (2 Year Old) Glow-worm Combi Boiler.
FIRST-FLOOR LANDING 7ft4" x 5ft11" (2.24m x 1.82m)
A large front window floods the landing with natural light. This area provides access to each of the bedrooms and the bathroom.
MAIN BEDROOM 11ft4" x 11ft (3.47m x 3.35m)
Situated at the rear of the house, the main bedroom overlooks the garden. As you can see from the photos, this room offers ample space for a variety of bedroom furniture.
From here there is also an access point to the loft which has boarding for easy storage.
BEDROOM TWO 9ft11" x 9ft6" (3.03m x 2.90m)
This second double room boasts two windows one overlooking the garden and another to the side. There is also room for additional bedroom furniture.
BEDROOM THREE 7ft4" x 8ft4" (2.37m x 2.56m)
As the measurements indicate, this is a good-sized bedroom. In addition to a front-facing window, there is a small bulkhead space that incorporates some storage.
BATHROOM 5ft7" x 9ft9" (1.72m x 2.99m)
What was once a separate bathroom and WC has now been combined into a spacious, larger-than-expected bathroom.
The room features wood-effect vinyl flooring, tiled walls, and a white suite consisting of a low-level WC, pedestal wash basin, and a panelled bath with mixer taps and a Triton electric shower.
Windows to both the side and front provide ample natural light.
If desired, part of this bathroom could be assigned to create an ensuite facility for the second bedroom.
OUTSIDE
FRONT
At the front of the property, you'll find parking, while to the side a shared driveway leads to a detached garage positioned at the rear of the house.
GARAGE 7ft10" x 16ft10" (2.41m x 5.15m)
The garage is equipped with an up-and-over door and has power and lighting connected. There is also a window overlooking the garden.
REAR GARDEN
The approximately 35' rear garden is mainly laid to lawn and enclosed by fencing.
Beyond the rear corner, sits the Buttsbury Primary School's nature area, which in turn helps this garden enjoy a more wooded outlook than typically expected.
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.
