- 5-bed semi-detached house in Billericay with ground floor annexe and loft conversion
- Ground floor annexe has private entrance, lounge with AC, double bedroom and shower room
- Top floor suite features lounge, king-size bedroom area and modern shower room
- 21ft x 18ft Lounge/Diner with garden access and skylights for even more light
- Modern kitchen with navy/cream units, granite tops and space for American fridge
- Three first floor bedrooms including large master with ensuite potential and main Bathroom
- South-facing landscaped garden with Indian sandstone patio & Double Width Drive
- Log cabin (13ft x 9ft) with power - ideal for office/gym, plus another separate Summerhouse too
- 6 mins to shops, 9 mins to park, catchment for Brightside Primary School
- 15 min walk to station (35 mins to London Liverpool Street),
UNIQUE FAMILY HOME OFFERS VERSATILE LIVING IN PRIME BILLERICAY LOCATION
This exceptional Five Bedroom Semi-detached House stands out in the local market, with its thoughtfully designed extensions and Loft Conversion offering the perfect solution for modern multi-generational living, or those seeking independent spaces within their home.
The property's standout feature is its Ground Floor Annexe wing, complete with its own private entrance, which provides a self-contained living space including a generous lounge with air conditioning, a well-appointed double bedroom, and a modern shower room. This versatile space is ideal for elderly relatives, grown-up children, or even potential rental income.
Adding to its unique appeal is the top floor suite - a private sanctuary comprising three distinct areas: a comfortable lounge space with far-reaching views, a bedroom area large enough for a king-size bed, and a stylish modern shower room. This arrangement creates a perfect teenager's retreat or a luxurious master suite for those seeking extra privacy.
The main house hasn't been overlooked neither, featuring a really good size Hall, huge 21ft x 18ft (6.4m x 5.7m) Lounge/Diner that has been practically doubled in size through a rear extension and boasts an air-conditioner, Kitchen with contrasting navy and cream Shaker-style units and granite worktops, ground floor WC, three first floor bedrooms (including a huge Master Bedroom with space/potential for an Ensuite) and the main family Bathroom.
Outdoor living is also well-catered for with a south-facing garden that has been thoughtfully landscaped.
Two outbuildings add extra appeal - a substantial log cabin measuring 13ft x 9ft 9" (4m x 3m) with its own electricity supply, perfect for a home office or gym, and a charming summerhouse ideal for a garden retreat or home bar.
The property's location is equally impressive, being just six minute walk from Queens Park Shopping Centre, 9 minute walk from the picturesque Lake Meadows Park and families will appreciate it falling within the catchment area of Brightside Primary School with its good OFSTED repost.
For the city commuter, Billericay Railway Station is just a 15-16 minute walk at 0.7 mile. The journey time to London Liverpool Street being 35 minutes so it can be Front Door to London in under an hour.
With its versatile accommodation, superior specification, and prime location, this property offers a rare opportunity to acquire a home that can truly adapt to changing family needs while maintaining style and comfort throughout.
THE ACCOMMODATION
ENTRANCE HALL 3ft 7" x 8ft 9" (1.09m x 2.67m)
A lovely-sized welcoming space to the property, with attractive wood flooring that runs into the Lounge/Diner.
The understairs cupboard provides great storage and houses the electricity consumer unit.
GROUND FLOOR WC ROOM 5ft 8" x 3ft (1.73m x 0.91m)
Fitted with a white 'cloakroom' suite, the sink sitting on top of a handy Vanity unit for tidy storage.
There is also a high-level window providing natural light.
LOUNGE/DINER 21ft x 18ft 9" (6.40m x 5.72m)
Practically doubled in size courtesy of the rear extension, this huge family-friendly social gathering point has a set of double doors with accompanying sidelight windows opening out to the garden while twin skylights in the extension provide even more light.
The wall mounted air-conditioner is a real boon in summer as the property boasts a sunny South-West facing Garden.
KITCHEN 15ft 10" x 9ft 6" (4.83m x 2.90m)
Fitted with a contrasting range of navy and cream Shaker-style units with granite effect worktops and incorporating a large inset ceramic sink.
There are spaces within the units for a freestanding cooker, washing machine and dishwasher, and a recess to the left of the chimney breast takes a large American-style fridge/freezer rather nicely.
White 'Metro' tiling, attractive wood-effect flooring, and the front-facing window with its fitted blind complete the look.
THE ANNEXE
L-SHAPED ANNEXE HALLWAY
A great first impression with its attractive slate effect flooring, accessed from both an internal door from the main house Kitchen as well as its own white woodgrain 'Front Door' to the side of the house (just through the side gate).
Looking up, there is a loft hatch providing access to the loft above this side extension.
Upon the wall is an Ideal 'Independent C30' boiler serving the hot water and central heating for the entire house.
ANNEXE LOUNGE 11ft 7" x 11ft 3" (3.53m x 3.43m)
A lovely cozy lounge which has air-conditioning for those hot summer days.
An east-facing side window and the south-west facing set of double doors with accompanying full-height sidelight windows make this a lovely bright room all through the day, with double doors providing easy access to the sun trap South-West facing garden.
ANNEXE BEDROOM 11ft 8" x 11ft (3.56m x 3.35m)
This good-size double bedroom with an east-facing window, overlooks the private side garden.
ANNEXE (GROUND FLOOR) SHOWER ROOM 7ft x 6ft (2.13m x 1.83m)
An attractive shower room featuring a freestanding Vanity unit, Roca close-coupled WC and an 3ft 10" x 2ft 10" (1200mm x 860mm) walk-in 'Double' Shower.
Attractive polished travertine-effect wall tiling complements the same slate-effect floor tiling as out in the hall, two small windows provide plenty of natural light, and there's a tall towel radiator.
Stairs from Main House Hall rising to:
1ST FLOOR LANDING
A built-in cupboard with louvred double doors opens to reveal the airing cupboard.
MASTER BEDROOM 18ft 9" x 11ft (5.72m x 3.35m)
A huge master bedroom with attractive feature 'Bedouin' berber carpet and extra-tall, fitted Oak-effect Shaker-style wardrobes.
Two large rear-facing windows pour in lots of south-facing sunlight.
BEDROOM TWO 9ft 3" x 9ft (2.82m x 2.74m)
Enjoying attractive 'light oak' effect laminate flooring, and with the measurements of this front-facing double bedroom excluding the door recess.
BEDROOM THREE 9ft 4" x 7ft 1" (2.84m x 2.16m)
A front-facing single bedroom that would also make a super Study.
BATHROOM 6ft 2" x 5ft 5" (1.88m x 1.65m)
Stylish modern bathroom featuring a double-ended bath with a separate shower over and travertine-style wall tiling complementing a contrasting darker marble-effect floor.
A side-facing obscure glass window provides natural light.
Second staircase rising from the 1st floor to the second floor landing.
2ND FLOOR LANDING
Halfway up the stairs is a large high-level recess measuring 6ft 3" x 2ft 6" (1.91m x 0.76m), providing a nice platform for display or further built-in storage potential.
BEDROOM FOUR - THE LOFT CONVERSION
What a pleasant surprise! This three-room top floor is currently divided into a lounge area, bedroom area, and a separate large ensuite shower room.
Absolutely perfect for teenagers, older children, and maybe even older relatives still able to take the stairs with ease.
For the purposes of description, we will divide it into three areas: lounge area, bedroom area, and the shower room.
LOUNGE AREA 12ft 6" x 11ft 1" (3.81m x 3.38m)
Cream walls and a high-quality carpet make this ready to move into.
The rear-facing window enjoys far-reaching views over the chimney pots.
BEDROOM AREA 12ft narrowing to 9ft x 11ft 2" (3.66m narrowing to 2.74m x 3.40m)
There's plenty of room for the king-size bed in situ at the moment, as well as its accompanying bedside cabinets.
A large recess takes another item of furniture, and a low-level cupboard door opens to reveal eaves storage.
Here in this area, two skylight windows stream in plenty of natural light.
SHOWER ROOM 7ft 6" x 5ft 4" (2.29m x 1.63m)
Another stylish and elegant bathroom, this one featuring a freestanding grey gloss Vanity unit with twin drawers, a close-coupled WC, and a large, enclosed shower.
Shiny grey marble-effect wall tiles and matte floor tiles contrast perfectly, the useful mirror-fronted bathroom cabinet will be remaining, and there is a notably large chrome tower radiator plus a rear-facing window for plenty of natural light.
EXTERIOR
REAR AND SIDE GARDENS
The Garden wraps round as the side well because it's a corner plot. The garden areas has been carefully landscaped over the years, evolving into a place for all seasons.
Stepping out of the Annex 'Front Door' is the Side Garden area. This has been paved with Indian sandstone, the sandstone slabs extending round behind the main house as Patio as well.
A trio of little sheds painted up like Beach Huts combine storage with cool colourful looks.
SUMMERHOUSE 7ft 1" x 7ft 1" (2.16m x 2.16m)
At the top right of the main Garden is a little summerhouse. This perfectly square, little escape hideaway has lighting and power. Perfect as another little home office or perhaps as a small home bar - the choice is yours.
CABIN 13ft x 9ft 9" (3.96m x 2.97m)
Sitting where the Garage would have been, now a chunky cabin presently used for storage.
It has its own separate electricity supply, power socket, and fluorescent light.
This would make the perfect larger home office, Gym, or as it stands in front of the drive on the return frontage, even a home business premises perhaps? (Beautician, Reflexology etc.).
DRIVE
Off street parking is on the return frontage.
The Drive is double width, taking two large cars or a van with ease. Possibly even a caravan.
Obviously, you could pave over the front garden to create a Front Drive if you wanted to.
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.
