Four Double Bedroom Detached House with a 78ft Garden in North Billericay (Buttsbury and Mayflower catchment) enjoying a pleasant non-estate setting. Features include a feature Limestone Fireplace in the Lounge, 21ft x 13ft max Kitchen/Diner, huge 20ft x 15ft max All-Year-Round Conservatory ( two radiators and underfloor heating too!) and a 12ft x 8ft Summerhouse at the end of the garden offering Home-Bar potential.
Buttsbury Junior School is at the beginning of the road with the Infants School just around the corner on Perry Street, and Mayflower High School is an easy walk too - in fact, all the schools under 10 minutes' walk away.
There are local shops on Stock Road for the daily essentials and the High Street and Railway Station are within walking distance too, plus there's a great bus service too.
Inside, the Accommodation briefly comprises a 17ft long Hall with attractive light wood flooring which extends on throughout much of the ground floor, Lounge, big Conservatory, Kitchen/Diner, separate Utility Room, ground floor WC Room, the four upstairs bedrooms (Master with Ensuite) and the Main Bathroom. The integral Garage offers a conversion option too.
There's a modern combination boiler in the garage, water softener, and the property benefits from double-glazed windows throughout.
The Accommodation
ENTRANCE HALL
Over 17 feet (5.18 meters) long and with attractive light wood flooring which extends into the adjoining Lounge and onwards through the Inner Hall and Kitchen/Diner - a nice first impression.
A lockable door on the left opens to reveal the internal Garage, the door at the end leading through to the Lounge.
LOUNGE 19ft 3" x 13ft 7" narrowing to 11ft 5" (5.87m x 4.14m > 3.48m)
A spacious Lounge, well lit by its wide front-facing bay window and with the focal point being the attractive Limestone Fireplace with its inset gas fire suite.
INNER HALL
The under-stairs cupboard is a really good size and has two doors providing easy access.
From this area, doors lead off to the Utility Room, Ground Floor WC, and on into the open plan Kitchen/Diner.
Stairs on the right rise to the first floor accommodation.
UTILITY ROOM 6ft 10" x 6ft (2.08m X 1.83m)
Also Re-fitted with an attractive range of Cream Gloss 'Integrated handle' units, incorporating spaces below the worktop for two appliances (washing machine and tumble dryer).
An external side door with adjacent window leads out to the sidewalk and also provides simple, quick access to the Garage via its rear courtesy door.
Note the extract fan on the ceiling by the door, making the room perfect for drying clothes in the winter months.
GROUND FLOOR WC
Refitted with a smart white suite to match the textured white tiles for maximum brightness.
KITCHEN/DINER 21ft x 12ft 9" narrowing to 11ft 10" (6.40m x 3.89m > 3.61m)
The attractive Light Oak effect flooring perfectly complements 'Integrated Handle' Cream Gloss kitchen units, themselves topped with smart black Granite worktops with sparkling inset iridescent crystals.
The appliances briefly comprise an AEG touch control Induction Hob with a 'Chimney' style Extractor above, a Siemens Multi-function Double Oven/Grill, Integrated Dishwasher, and space for an American-style fridge freezer.
The large peninsula unit incorporates a 4-Seater Breakfast Bar with further finishing touches including under-unit lighting, an under-mounted 1.5 bowl sink, a handy floor level 'kickspace' heater and tall 'Larder' units either side of the fridge freezer recess.
A smart vertical designer radiator provides plenty of winter heat and a set of double doors opens out to the Conservatory.
CONSERVATORY 20ft 4" x 15ft narrowing to 11ft 7" (6.20m x 4.57m > 3.53m)
A lovely huge additional living space with two radiators and separate underfloor heating as well - allowing all-year-round use.
Finished with wood laminate flooring and with both two single doors and a central set of double doors, all opening out to the Garden.
Stairs from Inner Hall to:
1st FLOOR LANDING
Quite a spacious landing with the side-facing window throwing light across and over the stairwell.
Looking up, we see a flip-down hatch revealing a fitted loft ladder providing easy access to the loft, which has been boarded out and has a light.
MASTER BEDROOM 13ft 5" x 10ft 10" (4.09m X 3.30m)
A large bedroom with a south-facing window, thus bathed in light and with a set of mirror-fronted sliding door wardrobes along the far wall.
ENSUITE SHOWER 6ft 9" x 2ft 5" (2.06m X 0.74m)
Fully tiled and fitted with a modern suite, the Shower with a chrome Aqualisa Quartz Wireless Secondary Start/Stop Button.
With a wall-mounted chrome tile radiator and a side-facing window for natural light.
BEDROOM TWO 15ft 1" x 9ft 9" (4.60m X 2.97m)
Another lovely size bedroom and again south-facing, so flooded with natural light.
A good range of fitted bedroom furniture incorporates wardrobes, cupboards, drawers, and bedside cabinets.
BEDROOM THREE 11ft x 10ft 7" (3.35m x 3.23m)
Another double bedroom, this one enjoying a pleasant outlook over the surrounding gardens.
BEDROOM FOUR 10ft 7" x 9ft 10" (3.23m X 3.00m)
Yet another double bedroom, again this one enjoying the pleasant outlook over the rear gardens.
BATHROOM 7ft 5" x 6ft 5" (2.26m x 1.96m)
A nice size bathroom featuring a Villeroy & Boch Bath with a separate Aqualisa shower over, along with a 'White Gloss' Vanity unit and close-coupled WC.
GARAGE 16ft 10" x 8ft 7" (5.13m X 2.62m)
With an up-and-over door, power and lighting, rear part-glazed courtesy door and housing the electrical consumer unit and the Worcester Greenstar 43CDI combination boiler.
We noted an 8ft 4" (2.54m) ceiling height and drop from the hall doorway, thus giving easy scope for a simple garage conversion or just as is, its high ceiling giving maximum storage.
GARDEN
With a paved patio, the balance mainly lawn and with access on one side.
At the end of the garden is a 12 feet x 8 feet (3.66m X 2.44m) Shed.
The conifers (within the boundaries of this garden) give good rear screening, making the garden unoverlooked from behind.
Council Tax
Basildon Council, Band F
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.
