- Approx Third of Acre Plot
- Detached Four Bedroom House
- Easy Walking Distance For Train Station, High Street, Lake Meadows and Norsey Woods
- Within 5 minute walk of Buttsbury Primary School and Mayflower Secondary School
- Kitchen and Utility Room
- Attached Single Garage
- Bathroom and Shower Room
- Two Good Sized Reception Rooms With Bay Windows
- Great Potential for Simple Extensions or Major Re-Development
- Early Viewing Advised
Being approximately 0.6 miles from the station, just 0.7 miles from the High Street and within a five-minute walk of both Buttsbury and Mayflower schools, this nicely presented four bedroom home with endless potential for further enlargement, could be both your ideal new home and foundation for a future development project.
Occupying a plot of approximately a third of an acre, this property probably boasts one of the largest plots you're likely to find within the local vicinity.
Just as importantly, the rear garden here measures approx. 150' and commands a favoured westerly aspect which ensures the rear of the house enjoys the majority of the day's sunshine.
Inside the property currently provides you with four good sized bedrooms and a bathroom to the first floor, whilst downstairs you have a generously sized entrance hall, kitchen with adjoining dining room and a front to back living room that has double doors opening onto the garden and an adjoining additional room which is currently used as a utility.
It goes without saying that the accommodation, the property currently offers, is quite adequate and ample for most families, but with it sitting on such a large plot, there is tremendous potential for either simple extensions or alternatively major redevelopment.
As mentioned, the location of this house is uber convenient, not only are you ideally placed for a walk into the packed historic High Street boasting well-known High Street names plus smaller privately owned boutiques together with numerous restaurants but this house is equally well positioned for the short walk to Lake Meadows and Norsey Woods offering you tranquillity and relaxing woodland walkways.
ACCOMMODATION AS FOLLOWS..
HALLWAY
This freshly painted bright hallway with its wood style laminate floor and a carpeted staircase rising to the first floor, gives you both a practical and generous size hallway for welcoming guests.
From the hall there is a panel door into the ground floor shower room, the kitchen and there is also both a feature glazed panel and door opening to the living room.
KITCHEN 3.03 m x 2.97 m ( 9'11 x 9'7)
With a window and door opening and looking onto the rear garden, this naturally bright kitchen with white tiled floor and base and eye level cabinets plus a breakfast bar, is a lovely space to greet you every morning.
There is a built-in Bosch oven, built-in halogen hob with cooker hood, dishwasher and an integrated fridge.
Please note the remainder of the appliances are all within the utility room.
This kitchen immediately adjoins the dining room which is accessed via a door but if preferred, it could easily have a much more open plan arrangement.
DINING ROOM 3.39 m x 3.22 m (11'1 x 10'6)
The full width curved bay window is a super feature that helps to emphasise this generously sized dining room which has an exposed wood floor and ample space for a large dining table.
SHOWER ROOM
Positioned to the rear of the house, this shower room with tiled floor and chrome heated towel rail, has a three-piece suite which comprises of a pushbutton WC, a vanity unit with wash basin and mixer tap and a corner shower unit.
LIVING ROOM 6.55 m x 4.13 m reducing to 3.44 m (21'5 x 13'5 > 11'3)
This is a lovely spacious living room which again has a walk-in front facing curved bay window, the wood style laminate flooring mirrors that in the hallway and to the rear of this room are double doors opening onto the garden.
You will notice these double doors sit within a recessed area which not only gives this living room an added dimension but it also creates a lovely area ideal for either a piano as it is now, or a workstation/bureau.
UTILITY ROOM 2.93 m x 1.84 m (9'6 x 6')
This rear extension with a part vaulted ceiling, tiled floor and chrome heated towel rail, provides you with adequate space for various appliances as well general storage for everyday items.
With windows to both the rear and side elevation, if you were to do alterations to the kitchen/dining room, this would blend very well into a study or playroom space.
FIRST FLOOR LANDING
The carpeted stairs with decorative ironwork balustrading opens onto the landing where the modern grey coloured carpet continues.
From here there are doors to each of the four bedrooms and the bathroom.
BEDROOM ONE 3.85 m x 2.88 m (12'6 x 9'5)
With windows to both the front and side, this main bedroom has a pleasant cottagey feel while fitted wardrobes, 2 with mirrored fronts, and a dressing table gives you good storage.
BEDROOM TWO 3.09m x 3.04 m (10'1 x 9'10)
The second double bedroom is positioned to the rear of the house it has views over the garden.
BEDROOM THREE 3.28 m x 2.88 m (10'8 x 9'5)
Just like the main bedroom, this third double room has windows to the front and side elevations and therefore also gives you that cottagey feel.
BEDROOM FOUR 3.18 m x 2.37 m (10'4 x 7'8)
As you can tell form the measurements, this fourth bedroom is a good useable room, it also has built-in wardrobes and is currently utilised as a home office study space as it enjoys pleasant views over the rear garden.
BATHROOM
Positioned at the rear of the house, this tiled bathroom has a three-piece suite which comprises a panel enclose bath, a close couple push button WC and wash basin with mixer taps.
OUTSIDE
FRONT
The front of the property affords a good level of privacy thanks to the established surrounding vegetation.
The driveway could be extended further into the lawn, but it already provides parking for several cars and gives you access to the garage.
GARAGE 5.37 m x 2.95 m (17'6 x 9'7)
An up and over door gives access into the garage which also has the convenience of a rear door opening onto patio.
It's worth noting with this being attached to the house the space of this could therefore be incorporated within any extension plans and be incorporated within the living accommodation.
REAR GARDEN
Wow, what a garden…Measuring approximately 150' (46m) in depth and having a width of approximately 50' (15.2m) to our knowledge this will be one of the largest gardens you are likely to find in such a convenient position within this town.
Commencing with a recently paved patio in a stylish grey coloured slab, the remainder of this garden is mainly lawn giving you ample room for a cricket crease and small football pitch.
Located towards the rear of the garden is a painted cabin providing storage.
Council Tax
Basildon Council, Band E
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.
