OFFERING NO ONWARD CHAIN, this visually appealing 4/5 Bedroom Detached House featuring an open plan Living Area and Kitchen is situated at the end of a short private lane 'between the houses'.
Super-stylish, beautifully presented and very contemporary internal accommodation comprises an impressive L-shaped Hall with striking Amtico© 'Spacia Blackened Spa Wood Wide Plank' flooring and gorgeous Italian internal doors, a large L-shaped open plan Kitchen/Dining/Family Room featuring sleek, bold 'Black Ash' Kitchen units, a woodburning Stove in the Living area and bifold doors in the Dining Area leading out to the Garden, three further ground floor reception rooms (two of them big enough to be optional double bedrooms) and off one of the optional bedrooms is an Ensuite Wet Room/Ground Floor WC.
Upstairs are the three main bedrooms and family bathroom, the master bedroom also with its own ensuite wet room.
Features include a shiny black Range Cooker in the kitchen, which also has an integrated Dishwasher and Washing Machine, a new-last-year Worcester Boiler, very attractive split-level tiled patio, Electric Vehicle Charger and the larger than average 21ft x 9ft Garage itself.
The 53ft x 34ft Garden wraps round three sides of the house: providing a main Garden area, a strip of lawn down one side and another side patio between the House and its Garage.
This large house is situated along a pleasant residential street within the Sunnymede neighbourhood - developed in the 1920's and just 0.9 mile walk (using the Daines Road/Crown Road short-cut) from Billericay Mainline Station, offering a fast and frequent service (35 minutes) to and from Westfield at Stratford and London Liverpool Street Station.
The property is also just a short 7-8 minute stroll from the neighbourhood shopping parade which includes a Tesco Express Convenience Store, and the local Sunnymede Infants & Junior Schools, which both have good OFSTED Reports, are literally 'around the corner'. Mill Meadows Nature Reserve is also an easy walk and ideal for those with dogs or energetic kids.
The Accommodation in more detail:
HALL 17ft 1" x 12ft 2" narrowing to 6ft 2" (5.21 m x 0.66 m > 1.88 m)
A striking first impression with a confection of Amitico's gorgeous 'Blackened Oak' flooring (charcoal greys and darkened brown tones create a striking dark style), a blend of beautiful black framed glazed and solid black contemporary internal doors imported from Italy and the black painted staircase, complimenting perfectly with the white woodwork and Farrow & Ball's subtle grey 'Ammonite' on the walls.
The Amtico flooring extends into the open plan Kitchen/Dining/Living room and Study.
There is a full height cloaks cupboard in addition to an understairs cupboard, a stylish black column designer radiator and a set of black framed glass double doors swinging open and leading into the Living Room.
OPEN PLAN KITCHEN/DINING/FAMILY ROOM
Intertwining both the kitchen and living spaces has given this area of the ground floor a real sense of space and flow, not to mention additional light.
All in one but for the purposes of description we will divide this area into a Family/Dining Area and Kitchen Area:
FAMILY/DINING AREA 23ft 6" x 13ft 9" narrowing to 10ft 7" (7.16 m x 4.19 m > 3.23 m)
A set of bi-folding doors open straight on to the Patio, really bringing the outside in and further light floods in through three more windows (two in the living area, one in the kitchen area).
The focal point is the modern wood burning Stove in the feature fireplace.
KITCHEN AREA 13ft 3" x 8ft 10" (4.04 m X 2.69 m)
Uber-modern 'Black Ash' kitchen units are topped with light grey slate effect Quartz for a striking visual impact - seriously good looking!
Features include the matching black Range Cooker with its stylish angled Extractor Fan above, a hot water/cold filtered water Tap over the undermounted black resin sink, an Integrated Dishwasher, Integrated Washing Machine, built-in Wine Cooler and a 2-Seater Breakfast Bar.
A matching unit houses the Worcester Bosch boiler - new last year.
'SNUG'/ADDITIONAL BEDROOM 12ft 2" x 8ft 8" (3.71 m X 2.64 m)
One of three very versatile ground floor additional reception rooms, easily used as a bedroom as well and with a front facing window.
GROUND FLOOR BEDROOM FOUR 10ft 10" x 9ft 1" (3.30 m x 2.77 m)
This ground floor double bedroom boasts its own Ensuite Wet Room
WET ROOM 7ft 4" x 3ft 1" (2.24 m x 0.94 m)
This beautifully appointed Wetroom features a very 'mod' wall hung monobloc sink/cabinet, back-to-wall WC and an open shower area with a stylish fixed showerhead and separate handset.
A small rear facing window provides natural daylight and the room comes with underfloor heating.
PLAY ROOM/STUDY 7'3" X 7'5" (2.21 m X 2.26 m)
This pretty pink room again offers a multitude of uses, currently a playroom but equally would make a perfect study.
Return staircase from hallway to:
1st FLOOR LANDING
The airing cupboard houses the Ultrasteel hot water cylinder.
MASTER BEDROOM 15ft 3" narrowing to 13ft 4" max x 13ft 7" (4.65 m > 4.06 m max x 4.14 m)
Another room with very modern on-trend decor, this one with its own Ensuite Wetroom as well.
There is also an eaves cupboard for extra storage.
WET ROOM 6ft 4" x 2ft 10" (1.93 m x 0.86 m)
Another stylish Ensuite with underfloor heating, this time with white Metro tiles complimenting a white wall mounted sink and back-to-wall WC, chrome fixed showerhead with separate handset and a skylight provides plenty of natural light.
BEDROOM TWO 12ft 8" x 13'8" max (3.86 m X 4.17 m max)
Another lovely double bedroom, this one front facing and also with an eaves cupboard for extra storage.
BEDROOM THREE 8ft 9" x 8ft 10" (2.67 m X 2.69 m)
A pretty front facing bedroom also with an eaves storage cupboard.
FAMILY BATHROOM 6ft'7" x 5ft 10" (2.01 m x 1.78 m)
With a feature geometric patterned tiled wall, this bathroom features a decadent freestanding 'Slipper' bath sitting below a Skylight streaming down natural light and underfloor heating.
FRONT
The property is approached via a shared privately-owned Drive, with a electric remote-controlled gate giving access into the private front Drive and grounds of this house and its twin.
SINGLE GARAGE 20ft 8" x 9ft 2" (6.3m x 2.8m)
This garage has an up and over door and power and light connected, there is a pitched roof providing storage space and a personal door to the rear garden.
GARDEN
Beautifully landscaped with an attractive split level tiled Terrace stepping down to the main lawn. A gravelled area provides another seating spot.
Council Tax
Basildon Council, Band E
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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.
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