- No onward chain with parking at the front for two cars.
- Three-bedroom mid-terrace with spacious, versatile accommodation.
- Open storm porch and external store for additional storage.
- Two ground-floor reception rooms with potential for improvement.
- Kitchen-diner with ample worktop space and built-in appliances.
- Three good-sized bedrooms and a four-piece bathroom upstairs.
- Gas radiator heating via a combi boiler and double-glazed windows.
- Rear garden approximately 42 feet deep with covered patio
- Walking distance to Infant and Primary school and local shops.
- 1-mile walk to Billericay station from the property.
Enjoying the appeal of having no onward chain as well as parking at the front, this three-bedroom mid-terrace house offers good-sized, versatile accommodation.
With an open storm porch, a built-in external store, a kitchen-diner, and two ground-floor reception rooms, there is great potential for further improvements.
Upstairs, each of the three bedrooms is of a good size, and there is also a four-piece bathroom with a separate shower cubicle and a separate toilet.
Additionally, this house features gas radiator heating via a combi boiler, double-glazed windows, and a rear garden measuring approximately 42 feet in depth. The garden includes a covered patio, which is accessible via double doors from the second reception room.
Salesbury Drive is located in the Sunnymede area of Billericay. The property is within a short walk of the Infant and Primary school, as well as local shops, which are just a few minutes away. Furthermore, walking to the top of this road onto Hillway provides a 1-mile walk to the station.
ACCOMMODATION AS FOLLOWS
ENTRANCE PORCH
The porch has a tiled floor and a door leading to an external store cupboard.
ENTRANCE HALLWAY
The wood-effect laminate floor extends through this hallway, which has doors leading to the two ground-floor rooms and the kitchen. A carpeted staircase leads to the first floor.
LOUNGE 5.51m x 3.36m (18'1 x 11')
The wood-effect laminate floor continues into the lounge area, which has a large rear-facing window and a fire surround with a gas fire (untested), which we understand will remain.
SECOND RECEPTION ROOM 2.6m x 2.29m (8'6 x 7'6)
This room has another laminate floor and double doors with glazed side panels that open onto the garden.
The room is currently used as a utility and overflow storage area, but in other properties, we have seen this space utilized as a home office or playroom.
KITCHEN/DINER 3.4m x 3.17m (11'1 x 10'4)
This kitchen-diner overlooks the front of the house. It has a slate-effect laminate floor, and a range of units fitted to two sides, which provide ample storage and worktop space. The kitchen includes a stainless-steel sink unit, a built-in double oven, a gas hob with a cooker hood, and spaces for a fridge freezer and washing machine.
FIRST FLOOR LANDING
From the landing, there is access to a drop-down hatch leading to the loft. The spindle staircase and open stairwell enhance the feeling of space.
Panel doors lead to each of the three bedrooms, the four-piece bathroom, and a separate WC.
BEDROOM ONE 4.55m x 3.33m (14'11 x 10'11)
Positioned at the rear of the house, this bedroom features a recessed rear window with a desk space, a built-in double wardrobe, and plenty of room for a double bed.
BEDROOM TWO 3.22m x 3.17m (10'6 x 10'4)
This second double bedroom is at the front of the house and has a built-in storage cupboard.
BEDROOM THREE 2.82m x 2.32m (9'3 x 7'7)
A good-sized single bedroom on paper, this room is located at the rear of the house. The measurements given reflect the clear floor space.
BATHROOM
This unexpectedly spacious bathroom features a four-piece white suite consisting of a push-button WC, a panel-enclosed bath with mixer taps, a wash basin with mixer taps, and a corner shower cubicle with a Triton electric shower.
SEPARATE WC
In addition to the toilet in the bathroom, you have this one aswell!
Being a separate room with its own window, you have the option of combining the two rooms to make an even bigger bathroom.
OUTSIDE
FRONT
The front of the property has been brick-paved to provide parking for two cars.
REAR GARDEN
Measuring approximately 42 feet, the rear garden begins with a covered paved area, with the remainder mainly laid to lawn. A central path leads to an additional seating area at the rear.
Council Tax
Basildon Council, Band C
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.
