- Extended 3 Bedroom Semi-detached House with a sunny South-West facing Garden
- 0.6 Mile to Billericay Railway Station (London Liverpool Street in 35 minutes)
- 0.5 Mile to Billericay High Street with its central Waitrose, shops, bars and restaurants
- Quiet cul-de-sac with shops just around the corner and the primary school within a short walk too
- 3 Reception Rooms: 20ft Lounge with Limestone Fireplace, Dining Room and Study/Playroom
- Extended Kitchen/Breakfast Room with understairs Larder/Pantry
- Ground floor WC Room plus upstairs refitted Bathroom with both a Bath and sep Shower too
- Light and bright 15ft Master Bedroom plus two more nice size bedrooms as well
- 3-Car Drive plus the integral Garage which offers conversion potential
- NO ONWARD CHAIN!
Boasting NO ONWARD CHAIN, this extended 3 Bed Semi with three living rooms and a sunny South-West facing Garden, is just 0.5 mile from Billericay High Street and 0.6 mile from the Station via the Daines Road/Crown Road shortcut.
The turning itself, a quiet cul-de-sac, is equally appealing. Many neighbours have been here decades, enjoying its most convenient location, perfect for commuters and ideal for families with Sunnymede Infants & Junior Schools a short 6-7 minute walk, local shops including a Tesco Express literally around the corner and the nature reserves of Mill Meadows and Norsey Woods both just short strolls away.,
The property itself was built in 1967 and typical of that era comes with big windows for maximum light and good size, family friendly accommodation, now comprising the Entrance Hall/Lobby, 20ft Lounge with Limestone Fireplace, separate Dining Room, bonus extra reception room (part of the extension - ideal Study or Play Room), extended Kitchen/Breakfast Room with understairs Larder/Pantry and ground floor WC Room to the ground floor, with upstairs the three bedrooms (all good sizes - the Master Bedroom 15ft long) and the Bathroom is big enough to take a Bath and separate Shower too.
The Accommodation in more detail:
HALL/LOBBY
Glazed door leading through to:
LOUNGE 19ft 9" x 12 ft (6.02m x 3.66m)
The focal point is the Limestone Fireplace with its inset gas fire.
Plenty of light comes through the large front-facing window and a stylish set of contemporary 'Oak' Double Doors open wide to the dining room beyond.
DINING ROOM 11ft5" x 9 ft (3.48m x 2.74m)
With the same matching contemporary set of glazed double doors which swing open to the Study/Play Room extension, and with a further matching glazed door leading through to the kitchen. A lightweight fitted cupboard provides great storage (this could easily be removed to increase the dining space for a bigger table).
EXTENSION/PLAYROOM 8ft6" x 8ft1" (2.59m x 2.46m)
Exceedingly versatile room with a set of double doors opening up to the garden and accessed via a stylish contemporary set of glazed double doors from the dining area.
LOBBY 2ft8" x 2ft5" (0.81m x 0.74m)
Giving separation between the Study extension and the ground floor WC.
GROUND FLOOR WC ROOM 6ft2" x 2ft9" (1.88m x 0.84m)
Fitted with a modern cloakroom suite.
KITCHEN/BREAKFAST ROOM 18ft4" x 8ft7" narrowing to 7 ft (5.59m x 2.62m > 2.13m)
Refitted with a smart range of Cream Shaker style cabinets with worktops and incorporating a built-in Induction Hob and matching Multifunction Double Oven/Grill.
Spaces in between the base units allow for a washing machine and dishwasher, with a larger wider space for an American-style fridge freezer.
A bi-folding set of doors open to reveal a surprisingly large under-stairs cupboard which houses the Worcester Greenstar 30i ERP condensing combination boiler. (We have seen some of these large 8ft3" x 3 ft (2.51m x 0.91m) under-stairs cupboards having been fitted out with kitchen units to make a separate small utility room)
A fully glazed external door and the rear-facing window provide lots of natural light.
FIRST FLOOR LANDING 8ft4" x 9 ft Max (2.54m x 2.74m Max)
Continuing the theme of large windows for maximum light, the window on the landing is nearly 6 ft (1.83m) wide.
Looking up, we see the flip-down loft hatch providing easy access to the loft via a fitted stepladder.
MASTER BEDROOM 15ft x 10ft4" (4.57m x 3.15m)
Nearly 7 ft (2.13m) wide, the front-facing window floods this spacious double bedroom with light.
A built-in cupboard provides useful storage, plus there is plenty of room for lots of wardrobes at the near end.
BEDROOM TWO 11ft9" x 9ft6" (3.58m x 2.90m)
Another excellent sized double bedroom, this one with the window nearly 8 ft (2.44m) in width, and as the garden is south-west facing, it is thus a bedroom that enjoys being predominantly bathed in light. Stylish fitted wardrobes run along the far wall providing super storage.
BEDROOM THREE 9ft9" x 8ft6" (2.97m x 2.59m)
Yet another good size bedroom that would easily take a double bed, this one with a large front-facing window as well.
BATHROOM 8ft4" x 6 ft (2.54m x 1.83m)
Large enough to take both a full-size double-ended bath as well as a separate corner shower.
The modern fit-out includes a Grey Gloss 'Combination' unit incorporating a semi-recessed basin and back-to-wall WC, the cupboards below providing handy uncluttered storage.
A wide window provides plenty of natural light.
GARAGE 17ft x 8ft2" (5.18m x 2.49m)
With a modern up-and-over door, light and power, and housing the electrical consumer unit and gas meter.
(The Front Drive will take three cars at a push, and the side gated access leads round to the rear garden)
REAR GARDEN 38ft x 24ft (11.58m x 7.32m)
With an L-shaped Patio, the balance laid to lawn.
Council Tax
Basildon Council, Band D
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.
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