- Characterful Three/Four-Bedroom Home In Central Billericay
- Moments From The High Street & Train Station In a Private Road
- Exposed Beams, Original Fireplaces & Period Features Throughout
- Separate Study and a Dining Room With An Incredible 3.43m Ceiling Height
- Extended First Floor With Three Double Bedrooms Served By Two Shower Rooms
- Kitchen/Breakfast Room With Island Unit
- Conservatory Spanning Full Width With Utility Area
- Generous 85' (25m) Rear Garden With Addition Secret Garden Plus Further Gated Rear Parking
- Two Insulated Outbuildings Plus Large Garage/Workshop
- Versatile Accommodation That Will Adapt To Your Needs
Pleasantly positioned in a central town centre private road with no through traffic and just moments from the High Street and train station, this characterful three/four-bedroom family home offers more than meets the eye.
With a new roof and a recently extended first floor, this home provides wonderfully versatile accommodation that will adapt to your needs as the years go by. Outside, gated access to the rear of the established 25m (82') garden leads to an additional area suitable for secure parking and storage.
As the photos show, there is an abundance of visual character throughout, exposed beamwork, original doorways, and fireplaces all combine to give this home a genuinely interesting and individual edge that is so hard to find in a modern property.
Three first-floor double bedrooms are served by two refitted shower rooms, whilst the additional family bathroom, complete with a sunken bath, is positioned on the ground floor.
As well as a welcoming and generous living room (understood to have been the classroom during the property's life as a school), there is also a study/optional fourth bedroom, a dining room with an incredible 3.43m ceiling height, and a 4.93m-wide kitchen breakfast room with an adjoining sun room/conservatory that also incorporates a useful utility area.
The rear garden enjoys a depth of approximately 85' and its various defined areas provide plenty of space to relax and play. Two insulated outbuildings and a detached workshop/garage offer a wealth of possibilities one is currently used as a comfortable two-person home office, another as a craft room, while the garage/workshop adjoins the rear driveway and storage yard. All in all, a truly remarkable home with so many elements that can be adapted to suit.
ACCOMMODATION AS FOLLOWS
RECEPTION HALL 6.23m x 1.74m (20'5 x 5'9)
With side and rear windows, natural light flows into this L-shaped hallway which immediately showcases the character features so evident throughout this property.
A staircase rises to the first floor, while doors lead into the kitchen, ground floor bathroom and living room.
GROUND FLOOR BATHROOM
This part-tiled bathroom has a rear-facing window and a heated towel rail.
The fitted suite comprises a sunken bath, a low-level WC and a pedestal wash basin, a somewhat unexpected feature at ground floor level. There is also a built-in storage cupboard housing the hot water tank.
LIVING ROOM 7.32m x 4.58m (24' x 15')
A truly impressive room with front and side-facing windows, exposed beamwork and a prominent brick-built fireplace housing a solid wood burner with a wood mantle, the perfect focal point for a room of this size and character.
Two doors lead in from the hallway, a window looks through to the kitchen, and further doors open to the study/bedroom four and the dining room.
STUDY/BEDROOM FOUR 3.95m x 2.51m (13' x 8'3)
Steps from the living room lead down into this versatile study, which equally offers the potential to serve as a fourth bedroom for guests or as a dedicated media room.
DINING ROOM 3.61m x 2.43m (11'10 x 8')
With a ceiling height of 3.43m, this room is quite unique in its style and scale.
Natural light is provided by a recently replaced rooflight and side windows, whilst a small gallery area runs around the room at high level, accessible via a fitted ladder, and sure to delight younger members of the family.
Open access leads through into the kitchen.
KITCHEN/BREAKFAST ROOM 4.93m x 3.63m > 3.06m (16'2 x 11'11)
With a rear window and a door into the adjoining conservatory, this kitchen has a wonderfully sociable feel.
Wood-fronted cabinets and a central island unit, all with wood-trimmed worktops, provide excellent workspace.
A built-in one-and-a-half bowl ceramic sink with mixer tap sits within the worktops, and there is also a double oven, gas hob and spaces for a dishwasher and fridge.
CONSERVATORY 6.75m x 2.42m (22'2 x 7'11)
Spanning almost the full width of the house, this brick-based conservatory with PVC panels provides a lovely seasonal space to complement the existing accommodation.
To one end is a practical utility area with wood-style cupboards, one of which houses a gas Potterton boiler, along with a worktop, a stainless-steel sink unit and spaces for both a washing machine and tumble dryer.
LANDING
The T-shaped landing has both front and rear-facing windows, a built-in storage cupboard and doors leading to each of the rooms.
BEDROOM ONE 4.49m x 3.09m (14'8 x 10'1)
A recent extension has helped create this generous main bedroom, which has a side window and an impressive wall of built-in wardrobes which also conceal two symmetrical His and Hers' walk-in wardrobes and a door opening to the en-suite shower room.
EN-SUITE SHOWER ROOM
This fully tiled shower room features a heated towel rail, inset downlighters and attractive LED marker lighting at lower levels of the tiled walls.
The white suite comprises a shower cubicle, low-level WC and a pedestal wash basin.
BEDROOM TWO 3.69m x 3.03m (12'1 x 9'11)
A lovely sized second bedroom with an interesting side bay projection that draws in the maximum amount of natural light, a charming architectural detail.
BEDROOM THREE 3.1m x 2.66m (10'2 x 8'8)
With windows facing both the front and side, this bedroom enjoys good natural light and pleasant distant views.
REFITTED SHOWER ROOM
This stylish second shower room combines appealing aesthetics with practicality, inset spotlights, wood-effect flooring and underfloor heating set the scene, while the modern white suite comprises a shower cubicle with digital shower, a push-button WC and an inset wash basin.
OUTSIDE
FRONT GARDEN
To the front of the house is an established garden incorporating a pathway with a walk-through canopy leading to the front door, along with parking for two vehicles.
REAR GARDEN
The rear garden measures approximately 25m in depth and opens with a raised decked area. To one side is a purpose-built barbecue, whilst to the other is a DETACHED INSULATED OUTBUILDING measuring 4.9m x 2.16m (16'1 x 7'1), recently redecorated and now used as a comfortable two-person home office.
The immediate garden area features a lawn with an adjoining fishpond, a raised shrub bed and a pathway that leads to a charming 'secret garden' area, accessed via wooden sleeper steps and home to a TAILOR-MADE PLAYHOUSE/DECORATIVE SHED, also insulated and currently used as a craft room. A real summer time treat for families.
To the rear of the garden, gates provide access to the rear parking area and storage yard.
GARAGE/WORKSHOP 5.14m x 4.31m + 4.35m x 3.48m
There are two attached workshops the first measuring 5.14m x 4.31m with a vaulted ceiling, corrugated roof panels and power and light connected. A second workshop/store measuring 4.35m x 3.48m adjoins the rear driveway and could provide covered parking if required.
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.
