- Convenient Location For Train Station, Lake Meadows, Local Shops, and Primary School
- Main bedroom is Particularly Generous With An Ensuite Shower Room
- Two Additional Bedrooms Share The Family Bathroom
- Entrance with 2 Storage Cupboards, Wood Effect Flooring, Part Vaulted Ceiling and a Skylight Window
- Downstairs WC with a Push Button WC and Wash Basin
- Kitchen with Space For a Dining Table and Chairs
- Rear Lounge Has Windows and Doors Opening Onto the Rear Garden
- Brick Paved Drive For Parking
- Detached Garage
A thoughtful front extension and the utilization of space within the main bedroom for an ensuite shower room ensure this home provides some added extras that you will not always find in similar homes nearby.
Being situated just around the corner from the train station, Lake Meadows, local shops, and Brightside Primary school, there really is an abundance of life on your doorstep. These amenities are all within a 5 to 15-minute walk, providing convenience and accessibility.
Inside, the house is stylishly presented with wood-effect flooring on the ground floor and carpeted floors on the first floor. The first floor comprises three bedrooms, the main one being particularly generous and having the ensuite shower room, while the other two share the family bathroom.
The ground floor extension has provided a larger hallway with a part vaulted ceiling and a skylight window, a downstairs WC, and a built-in storage cupboard while the kitchen enjoys space for a table and the rear lounge,gives you a window and doors opening onto the rear garden which in turn boasts a favourable westerly aspect providing you with the majority of the days sunshine.
Considering the convenience of the location, the amenities on offer, and the added extras to the accommodation, this is a home that will serve you well for many years to come.
ACCOMMODATION AS FOLLOWS...
HALLWAY
A thoughtful and most useful porch extension transformed this entrance. With wood effect flooring, a part vaulted ceiling, and a skylight window above the entrance door, you are greeted by a welcoming modern style.
This hallway extends deep into the house where the stairs rise to the first floor. In addition to the two large storage cupboards, you have doors opening to the downstairs WC, kitchen, and lounge.
GROUND FLOOR WC
This small but incredibly useful room features a pushbutton WC and wash basin, setting this house apart with the added convenience of an ensuite shower room.
KITCHEN/DINER 4.77m x 2.88m (15'8 x 9'6)
The kitchen/diner boasts a good range of wood fronted units providing ample storage, along with space for a fridge freezer, washing machine, and dishwasher. It includes a built-in oven and a corner cupboard concealing the boiler.
The current owners also have a four-seater dining table and chairs, demonstrating the spaciousness of this area.
SITTING ROOM 5.67m x 3.35m (18'7 x 11')
The wood effect flooring continues into this main reception room, which has windows and doors opening onto the garden, making it naturally light and airy.
LANDING
The full-height stairwell gives a feeling of space, while modern panel doors open to each of the bedrooms and the bathroom.
BEDROOM ONE 5.02m x 3.35m (16'6 x 11')
This generously sized main bedroom has two rear windows, built-in wardrobes, and incorporates its own ensuite shower room.
ENSUITE SHOWER ROOM
Unusually, this house features an ensuite shower room with a large walk-in shower cubicle, pushbutton WC, and wall-mounted handbasin.
BEDROOM TWO 3.19m x 2.7m (10'5 x 8'10)
The front-facing second room can accommodate a small double bed or comfortably a single bed.
BEDROOM THREE 2.87m x 2.43m (9'5 x 8)
Also situated at the front of the house, this room provides space for a single bed or possibly a small double bed.
BATHROOM
Fitted with a white suite, this part tiled bathroom features a side window and a white suite that consists of a pushbutton WC, wash basin, and a panel-enclosed bath with shower screen and shower.
OUTSIDE
FRONT
The front of the house features a block-paved parking area and shared side access leading to the single garage.
SINGLE GARAGE
With an up-and-over door, this garage has generally been used for storage and includes a handy door leading into the garden.
REAR GARDEN 5.77m x 2.65m (18'11 x 8'8)
Facing in a westerly direction, the rear garden begins with a raised patio while the remainder is mainly lawn. Well-established shrubbery helps to provide privacy.
Council Tax
Basildon Council, Band D
Notice
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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.
