Sitting just opposite a wooded area of Queens Park Country Park and with extended accommodation that has transformed key ground-floor areas, this four-bedroom detached home is worthy of consideration.
Upstairs, the four bedrooms consist of two good-sized double rooms and two single bedrooms. Serving these is both an ensuite shower room with twin basins, and a bathroom, both refitted by a reputable local Billericay firm, using a quality suite and a standard of finish that is notable.
The downstairs has been notably transformed by the extension.
Firstly, the hallway now features a part-vaulted ceiling, and with the inclusion of a built-in cupboard, you now have somewhere to keep coats and shoes out of sight.
The kitchen has also been enlarged. It now has a side door plus two side windows and a vaulted ceiling with two skylight windows, dramatically increasing the level of light gained from the room's easterly aspect.
Not only do you have an extensive range of quality oak-fronted cabinets with quartz worktops, but there is also a built-in dining table/breakfast bar with a matching quartz finish, complemented by polished porcelain floor tiles.
Additionally, the ground floor offers three reception rooms, all featuring quality textured vinyl flooring, and a lounge that adjoins a large conservatory with a radiator linked to the central heating.
Outside, you will notice that this home has a double garage, an EV charging point, and a nicely secluded garden with a southerly aspect. Should you need more space, a 60-acre country park is just opposite.
ACCOMMODATION AS FOLLOWS
HALLWAY
The extension has created a lovely entrance to this home. The textured, part-vaulted ceiling with a skylight window, combined with luxury vinyl flooring, provides both style and practicality.
Within the hall, there is a super handy built-in cloaks cupboard with space for most seasonal coats. The stairs rise to the first floor, and doors open to the downstairs WC, kitchen, dining room, and lounge.
DOWNSTAIRS WC
The flooring continues into this essential space, which includes a front window, ceiling spotlights, and a white suite consisting of a push-button WC and a washbasin.
KITCHEN 6.5m x 3.1m (21'4 x 10'2)
This kitchen has greatly benefited from the extension and has been transformed from its original design.
Two windows and a side door, all facing easterly, provide good natural light, while the part-vaulted ceiling with two skylights increases the natural light levels and the sense of spaciousness.
Gloss porcelain floor tiles and matching quartz worktops bounce light from the downlighters. The quality oak-fronted units offer plenty of storage, along with space for a fridge/freezer, dishwasher, range oven, and washing machine within the designated utility area.
There is also a built-in quartz dining table and a cupboard housing a Worcester boiler.
DINING ROOM 3.7 x 2.7m (12'2 x 8'10)
This front-facing reception room features a continuation of the vinyl flooring and boasts generous proportions.
LOUNGE 5.63m x 3.66m (18'6 x 12')
Located at the rear of the house, this naturally bright room includes a feature limestone fireplace with a gas fire. A rear window and double doors open to the conservatory, providing ample space for entertaining.
From here, a door opens to the study/home office.
STUDY/HOME OFFICE 3.66m x 2.02m (12' x 6'7)
Positioned to the side of the house, this quiet room is an ideal spot for a home office. It has a central window and ample space for two desks and filing storage.
CONSERVATORY 4.94 x 2.83m (16'2 x 9'4)
This sizable UPVC-glazed conservatory has a tiled floor and radiator heating connected to the main boiler.
The radiator allows this room to be used more frequently, even during the milder seasons.
LANDING
A nice central landing with a side window and a balustrade staircase.
There is a cupboard housing a hot water tank, with doors leading to each of the bedrooms and the main bathroom.
BEDROOM ONE 3.83m x 3.34m (12'7 x 11')
This is a master bedroom worthy of the title. Generously sized, it features an extensive range of wood-fronted bedroom furniture, including wardrobes, drawers, and a dressing table.
For those warm summer months, there is also an air-conditioning unit. A door to one side opens to the ensuite shower room.
ENSUITE SHOWER ROOM
Another stylishly presented shower room with a modern theme, featuring a recently fitted white suite.
Fully tiled walls incorporate a push-button WC, a vanity unit with twin ceramic basins and illuminated mirror, plus a large walk-in shower with a remote button to warm the water before stepping in.
BEDROOM TWO 3.51m x 2.89m (11'6 x 9'6)
This second double room has a rear-facing window.
BEDROOM THREE 2.62m x 2.57m (8'7 x 8'5)
Another well-proportioned room, also with a rear-facing window.
BEDROOM FOUR 2.62m x 2.09m (8'7 x 6'10)
This fourth bedroom, while more standard in size, will still accommodate a single bed.
BATHROOM
This bathroom was recently fitted by Billericay Homecare with a quality Laufen suite.
Fully tiled, it includes a large panel-enclosed, curved corner bath, a push-button WC, and a large vanity unit with a ceramic sink and mixer taps. In one corner, there is a shower cubicle with an Aqualisa shower unit.
OUTSIDE
FRONT
The driveway sweeps up from the road and leads to the detached double garage.
There is a lawn and flower bed near the front door, and from here, you can enjoy a glimpse of the lovely wooded outlook.
DOUBLE GARAGE 5.43m x 5.36m (17'10 x 17'7)
This double garage has two up-and-over doors, with power and lighting connected, and eaves storage.
A handy side door leads to the garden.
REAR GARDEN
The garden enjoys a southerly aspect, receiving sunshine for most of the day during the summer months.
A paved patio area provides space to entertain, while the remainder of the garden is laid to lawn, surrounded by raised shrub beds enclosed by a painted retaining wall.
Council Tax
Basildon Council, Band F
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.
