- Open Views Over Farmland, Half a Mile From High Street With Train Station Beyond
- Well-Regarded Local Primary and Secondary Schools Nearby
- Spacious 1,500 Sq. Ft. With Versatile Ground and First-Floor Living Spaces
- 9 Solar Panels for Lower Energy Costs Year-Round
- Four Double Bedrooms, Three With Built-In Wardrobes
- Main Bedroom Features a Stylish Ensuite Shower Room
- Engineered Oak Floors Add Style and a Feeling of Warmth to the Living Spaces
- Refitted Ground Floor WC With Modern Finish
- Modern Kitchen With White Gloss Units, Granite Worktops, and Quality Appliances
- Utility/Boot Room in Garage With Electric Roller Door
Enjoying open views over adjacent farmland and located approximately half a mile from the High Street and train station, with well-respected local primary and secondary schools equally close, this home truly offers the best of both worlds.
With stylish and well-maintained accommodation spanning approximately 1,500 sq. ft., you have well-proportioned living spaces offering versatility on both the ground and first floors. Additionally, with 9 solar panels, you will benefit from lower running costs throughout the year.
Upstairs, surrounding the spacious landing, you have four good-sized bedrooms, each of which can accommodate a double bed. Three of the bedrooms already feature built-in wardrobes. The main bedroom also boasts a stylishly fitted ensuite shower room. There is an equally appealing family bathroom, and with two bedrooms facing the front, you can enjoy the open farmland views.
Thoughtful minor alterations have ensured that the ground floor is a family-friendly environment, allowing a growing family to thrive. The reception hall, front-facing reception room currently used as a second sitting room/playroom and the rear living room with a gas fire and double doors to the garden, all feature stylish engineered oak floors, which effortlessly add a sense of quality and welcoming warmth.
The ground floor WC has been refitted in a style similar to both the ensuite and family bathroom. The kitchen, located at the rear of the house, enjoys a modern, stylish feel, with well-chosen white gloss units, complementary granite worktops, and integrated quality appliances.
For convenience, the owners have also created a useful utility/boot room in the rear section of the garage, which features an electric roller door.
Additional noteworthy features of this home include solar-assisted electricity and gas heating, with an approximately 5-year-old boiler and a Megaflo pressurized hot water cylinder to ensure no one has a cold shower.
ACOMMODATION AS FOLLOWS...
An external canopy porch provides guests with shelter from the elements and serves as a convenient spot for parcels when you're out!
HALLWAY
The composite entrance door opens to a welcoming hallway with engineered oak floors that immediately catch your attention. The hallway widens at the central point of the house, where doors lead to the ground-floor rooms and the garage. The carpeted stairs, featuring white balustrades, rise gracefully to the first floor.
STUDY/PLAYROOM 3.52m x 2.89m (11'6 x 9'6)
Positioned at the front of the house, this spare reception room boasts the same oak flooring and offers a relaxing view of the farmland opposite.
KITCHEN/DINER 5.07m x 2.89m (16'6 x 9'6)
This modern, rear-facing kitchen/diner, complete with a side door, features a stylish vertical radiator, vinyl-tiled flooring, and a good range of high-quality white gloss units fitted around the room. The extensive granite worktops provide ample workspace, enhancing the functionality of the room.
The kitchen is well-appointed with an under-counter sink unit with mixer taps, a tiled splashback with under-pelmet lighting, a built-in dishwasher, a Bosch gas hob, a Bosch double oven, and an integrated fridge freezer. Additionally, a cozy bench seating area is incorporated for dining.
LOUNGE 5.07m > 4.43m x 3.69m (16'6 > 14'6 x 12'1)
Flooded with natural light from two side windows and double doors opening to the garden, this living room exudes calmness. It features matching wood flooring and a beautifully crafted limestone fire surround.
CLOAKROOM
Stylishly fitted, the cloakroom includes a tiled floor, a WC with a concealed cistern and push-button flush, a vanity unit with mixer taps, a washbasin, a side window, and a chrome heated towel rail.
LANDING
As the generous measurements suggest, this is a spacious landing area perfect for a child's playtime, perhaps with a Scalextric track or train set.
There is a built-in cupboard housing the pressurized water system, and access to the loft where the boiler, fitted approximately five years ago, is located.
Panel doors lead from the landing to each of the four bedrooms and the bathroom.
BEDROOM ONE 4.25m > 3.72m x 3.62m (13'11 > 12'2 x 11'10)
This generously sized main bedroom, located at the rear of the house, features three built-in wardrobes and a door leading to the ensuite shower room.
EN-SUITE SHOWER ROOM
Refitted with a modern white suite and complemented by tiled walls and floors, the ensuite exudes contemporary style.
It includes a push-button WC with a concealed cistern, a wash basin with mixer taps, and a wider than average shower with both an overhead showerhead and a hand attachment.
BEDROOM TWO 4.25m x 2.96m (13'11 x 9'8)
Each of the four bedrooms are of a good size.
This one, at the rear of the house, offers ample space for a double bed and additional wardrobes alongside the built-in cupboard.
BEDROOM THREE 3.87m x 3.52m (12'8 x 11'7)
Another double bedroom, this one also includes a built-in storage cupboard/wardrobe.
Located at the front of the house, it enjoys fantastic views over the farmland opposite.
BEDROOM FOUR 3.05m x 2.42m 2.6m >(10' > 7'9 x 8'8 )
Despite being the fourth bedroom, this room is by no means small.
Its generous size makes it a versatile space, currently used as a well-planned home office. The open view across farmland provides a pleasant distraction during online meetings.
BATHROOM
Like the downstairs cloakroom and ensuite, the family bathroom has been stylishly refitted with a white suite and complemented by tiled walls. Enhanced by downlighters and an LED-lit mirror, the bathroom exudes a modern feel.
The suite includes a low-level WC with a wood-effect unit concealing the cistern, a wash basin with storage beneath, and a panel-enclosed bath with a mixer tap and a separate rainforest shower head.
OUTSIDE
FRONT
The house sits opposite farmland along Tye Common Road. Although this land is under speculation for future development, no proposals have been made, and it does not seem to be a preferred area for such projects at present.
The front features a small lawn with established hedging, while the double-width driveway provides parking for two cars and access to the covered front door and garage.
GARAGE
The garage is divided into two areas.
The front storage section measures 2.6m x 2.49m (8'9 x 8'5) and is equipped with an electronically operated roller door.
The rear section 2.68m x 2.57m (8'9 x 8'5) is accessible via a connecting door with the front area and another directly from the hallway and serves as a utility area and boot room.
In addition to useful storage, it offers spaces and plumbing for various appliances, a sink unit with hot and cold water, and houses the solar panel converter on the wall.
REAR GARDEN
The rear garden begins with a patio area, with the remainder being lawn and with some shrub beds. A decked seating area, complete with a pergola for added charm, is positioned in the rear corner.
There is a side gate for access, an external power point at the rear of the garden, and an outside water tap near the patio.
Council Tax
Basildon Council, Band F
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.
