- Spacious family home with 4 bedrooms and modern living layout
- Located near Stockbrook Manor Golf Club and top-rated schools
- Wood-effect vinyl flooring throughout the ground floor
- Living room with a bay window and cast-iron wood burner
- Kitchen diner with integrated Neff and Bosch appliances
- Handy inner hallway, boot room and WC with cupboard for washing machine
- Ensuite shower room and family bathroom stylishly refitted
- Front block-paved driveway .
- Rear garden with granite patio, central lawn and shed with power.
A thoughtful conversion and creative use of space have created a family home that provides the accommodation needed to meet most family needs.
Being on the Arundel Heights development, just opposite Stockbrook Manor Golf and Country Club, and within the well-regarded Buttsbury and Mayflower School area, these houses have always been a popular choice amongst families and commuters.
Now, in addition to the four bedrooms, the ensuite shower room and the family bathroom both of which have been refitted you have a ground floor tailored to modern living styles.
Quality wood-effect vinyl flooring flows from the entrance hall into the living areas. Here, you have a generous living room with a cast-iron wood burner, and adjoining, is a separate study/playroom, which also has a bay window enhancing its size.
An inner hallway sits central within the house. From here, the stairs rise to the first floor, and doors open to a separate WC, which includes a utility cupboard to hide away the washing machine, and an exceptionally handy boot room providing valuable storage for everyday essentials.
Another door opens into the full-width kitchen diner, which has windows and doors opening onto the garden.
The kitchen has been recently fitted with a range of stylish units that incorporate quality integrated appliances, including a Neff double oven, gas hob, microwave, Bosch dishwasher, and a fridge and freezer.
Outside, the front has been block-paved for parking, and the rear garden features two quality granite patios adjoining a central lawn.
ACCOMMODATION AS FOLLOWS
ENTRANCE HALL
Quality Karndean wood-style vinyl flooring ensures a practical entrance, while a side window provides natural light, and a replacement door gives access. A door then opens into the living room.
LIVING ROOM 4.8m x 4.09m (15'9 x 13'4)
With the garage conversion, there is an added dimension of space to this living area. The bay window brings in good natural light, while an open fireplace with a cast-iron wood burner, granite hearth, and a chunky wood mantle adds extra warmth for chilly evenings. Shelves fitted into a recess provide handy display space, and there is open access to the adjoining reception room.
STUDY/PLAYROOM 2.35m x 2.98m (9'9 x 7'8)
Another bay window brings natural light into this versatile space, which again has wood vinyl flooring. It creates a useful area for work, rest, and play. Currently, there is a double-width desk unit, bench seat, and a wall-mounted TV that enhances the versatility of this space.
INNER HALLWAY
The wood vinyl flooring continues into the central hall area, where the stairs rise to the first floor, showing the benefits of the improvements undertaken in this house.
CLOAKROOM
Smartly tiled and fitted with a stylish white suite, this room, with a push-button WC and washbasin, is not only essential for any family home but also a thoughtful conversion of the cupboard under the stairs, providing a very handy utility cupboard for the washing machine.
BOOT ROOM 2.36m x 1.79m (7'8 x 5'10)
Only once you've had a room like this will you truly appreciate its benefits and what it brings to the home. This one is currently shelved, providing exceptionally useful storage. Additionally, there is space for an extra fridge freezer.
KITCHEN DINER 6.89m x 3.6m > 2.39m (22'7 x 11'10 > 7'10)
By combining the original kitchen and separate dining room, this full-width kitchen diner is now a social space where guests and families can be entertained in comfort. Having been a relatively recent project, the kitchen is both stylish and practical, with a good range of cabinets and worktops, an enamelled sink unit, white tiled splashbacks, and under-pelmet lighting. Built within these units are a Bosch double oven and gas hob, an integrated Hotpoint fridge/freezer, a Neff dishwasher, and an integrated eye-level Neff microwave.
LANDING
The carpeted landing, with white-painted balustrades, provides a spacious thoroughfare between rooms, and there is also access to the loft.
BEDROOM ONE 4.12m x 4.2m > 3.75m (13'6 x 12'3)
This main bedroom is positioned at the front of the house and is particularly generous in size, providing ample space for both a large bed and bedroom furniture.
ENSUITE SHOWER ROOM
Refitted in a style similar to the bathroom, this room also features a slate-style floor covering, fully tiled walls, and a white suite consisting of a push-button WC, a washbasin, and a large walk-in shower.
BEDROOM TWO 4.24m x 2.6m (13'10 x8'6)
The wood-effect vinyl flooring matches that of the other bedrooms and the ground floor. This room is an excellent size with plenty of space for a double bed and wardrobes.
BEDROOM THREE 3.37 x 2.57m (11' x 8'5)
The third bedroom is at the rear of the house, overlooking the garden and beyond, with a view of the wooded area of Stockbrook Manor Golf and Country Club on the horizon.
BEDROOM FOUR 2.47m x 2.39m (8'1 x 7'9)
The rear window of this single bedroom also enjoys a view of Stockbrook Golf Course on the horizon. There is a built-in storage area and wood flooring.
BATHROOM
The LED lighting from the mirror that sits on the tiled walls creates a nice ambiance in the space, which has been refitted with a stylish white suite consisting of a concealed WC with a push-button flush, a vanity unit with an enamel sink and mixer taps, and a panel-enclosed bath with mixer taps and a separate shower attachment with a shower screen.
OUTSIDE
FRONT
The front of the house now features a full-width block-paved drive with decorative edging stones and a corner shrub bed, providing easy parking.
REAR GARDEN
This commences with a quality granite slab patio that leads onto the lawn, while at the rear is a matching patio with granite edging. There are also established shrub borders, and in the rear corner, there is a shed with power. Access can be gained from both sides; however, one side area is currently dedicated to providing storage.
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.
