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To find out some interesting facts about Hitchin and places to visit in Hitchin and the surrounding areas you can click on the boxes above.

To get a quote on a survey in Hitchin, carried out by an Independent Building Surveyor, click on the 'Get a Survey Quote' box above.

If you are after a Quick Sale in the Hitchin area and need an express building survey, you can meet the Chartered Building Surveyor at the property for initial property feed back, and then receive the survey report on line using a protected password, your solicitor has the same fast on line access too, whether it be a residential building survey or a commercial survey on a retail outlet, industrial unit, restaurant or public house.

Hitchin is a very pretty market town in Hertfordshire with the town of Luton to the west and Stevenage to the east. Hitchin is a pretty lively town with lots going on; there are lots of pubs in the town and many very nice places to eat from restaurants to cafes.

The parish church of St Mary is a focal point at the centre of the town and one gets the feeling that the town plan has changed little over the centuries. There are lots of nice shops in the town and the town square is a cobble stone area. There are many buildings of historical interest in Hitchin which add to the charm of the town. Another attractive aspect of Hitchin is the River Hiz around which the town grew over a thousand years ago, which runs along near the church, making a very picturesque setting.

Hitchin can be traced back to the Hicce tribe who lived in the area in the 7 th century.

The town is mentioned in the Domesday Book in 1086 as being a Royal Manor. By the medieval times Hitchin had become a prosperous place to live. The land around Hitchin was used for sheep farming on the hills and the flatter land was used for wheat, lavender and barley, making Hitchin a successful trading town. St Mary's church dates back to the 1200s and the money from trading of wool enabled the church to be built. However, when work was taking place to the floor of the church much older foundations were found to a basilican church from the 7 th century which is older that was previously thought.

The 1600s-1800s saw Hitchin being used as a staging post for travellers to and from London . Many of the inns and courtyards that were used in those years can still be seen in Hitchin today.

The mid 1800s saw the arrival of the railway and these new transport links opened up new opportunities for the town. A Corn Exchange was built (now a restaurant / bar) in the Market Place and Hitchin became a centre for trading grain.

1st Associated Chartered Surveyors cover the whole of the UK including all areas of Hertfordshire for example in:

Abbots Langley Berkhamsted Bishop's Stortford Borehamwood Broxbourne Bushey Cheshunt Croxley Green Harpenden Hatfield Hertford Hitchin Hoddesdon Letchworth Potters Bar Rickmansworth Royston South Oxhey Stevenage St Albans Tring Ware Watford Welwyn Garden City

Below are some examples of surveys we have carried out in the Hertfordshire area: Commercial Survey - Property Report and Schedule of Condition on a 18th century pub and restaurant in Welwyn Garden City Residential Building Survey of an early 1900s Period Terraced Property in Letchworth Residential Building Survey of a 1960s/1970s Detached Property in Hemel Hempstead Residential Building Survey of a Modern 1990s Detached Property in Abbots Langley Residential Building Survey of a Modern Detatched 1980s Property in Tring Residential Building Survey on an Extended End of Terrace Property built in the 1960s in Welwyn Garden City Residential Building Survey of a Converted Leasehold flat, with a share of the Freehold, in a c.1900s terraced property in Hitchin Residential Building Survey of a 1960s detached property in St Albans Commercial Survey - Property Report and Schedule of Condition on a 17th / 18th Century Public House in Buntingford More examples of surveys from different eras are available to download from our downloadable surveys page.

1st Associated provide house surveys, commercial surveys, engineers reports, property training plus more all carried out by RICS surveyors in Hitchin and the surrounding areas.

Contact us today for a free, no obligation quotation, including building surveys, structural surveys, homebuyers reports and pre sales reports, for Hitchin and the surrounding towns and villages.

Our surveyors are not timed or targeted to do as many surveys as possible in one day or in a week. They are all Independent Chartered Surveyors and are able to take as much time as the survey requires to do a professional job. The surveyor needs time to understand the building he is surveying and to fully examine the property for potential problems, such as rising damp or lateral or penetrating dampness. Our surveyors are also available to speak to you either at the property and / or on the telephone after the survey to talk through their findings.

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We carry out Structural Surveys, Structural Building Surveys on Residential properties and Commercial properties throughout Hertfordshire.