The 400-year-old house, Hurlocks, High Street, Billericay, was also haunted. Its ruinous condition before it was demolished in 1958 made it easy to imagine ghostly inhabitants. 

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Towards the end of the 19th century Miss E S Bayly spent a troubled night in the ‘spare room’ and more recently a ghost was seen looking out of a window when the house was unoccupied. The site is now The Blue Boar.