0800 298 5424
Building Surveyor Oxford
We are an independent chartered building surveyors in Oxford. We provide all types of surveying and property advice, with building survey tailored to your individual property needs. Our building survey reports are far superior to the kind your would receive from your mortgage company. Ours include, pictures, projected repair costs and general advice on the property.
We carry out building survey and give independent advice in Oxford on:
Oxford Building survey, Oxford House survey, Property defect survey, Building disputes survey,
Chartered Building Surveyor in Oxford
To find out some interesting facts about Oxford and places to visit in Oxford and the surrounding areas you can click on the boxes above.
To get a quote on a survey in Oxford, carried out by an Independent Building Surveyor, click on the 'Get a Survey Quote' box above.
If you book a survey with 1st Associated you will find that we take great pride in the quality of our survey and produce a very detailed survey report. We use plain English to explain any problems with the property to ensure that you understand the problems and how to resolve them.
We carry out residential structural survey and commercial survey in Oxford. Oxford is a town which is situated in Hertordshire.
Information on Oxford
Travelling north west from London on the M40 then continuing on the A40 is the historic, world famous University city of Oxford with delightful buildings such as the Sheldonian Theatre in Broad Street, the Bodleian Library and Radcliffe Camera with its large dome, in the city centre and Britain's oldest museum the Ashmolean Museum in Beaumont Street with its vast collections of art and ancient relics. Whilst in the city you are bound to see many of the 20,000 students who come from all over the world to study at one of the thirty eight colleges or six private halls within the campus from October to June in three eight week terms, Michaelmas (Autumn), Hilary (Spring) and Trinity (Summer).
Oxford has had many, many notable students and lecturers over the nine centuries it has been in existence including at least thirty international leaders, forty seven Nobel Prize winners, twenty six British Prime Ministers, twenty Archbishops of Canterbury and at least fifty Olympic medal winners. Firstly for many centuries the opportunity to study at Oxford 's hallowed halls was for men only then in 1878 halls were created for women only giving them full membership of the University in 1920. In 1974 five all male colleges allowed females to study alongside males with other halls following suit later with St Hilda's College being the last single sex college until 2008.
Oxford is blessed with many Museums, Collections, Galleries and Libraries with the biggest library system in the UK with over a hundred libraries including the famous Bodleian Library in a building dating back to 1602 with its large entrance doors embellished with heraldic shields of some of the city's colleges.
One of the most magnificent colleges is Christ Church , in St Aldate's, which was established in 1522 by Cardinal Wolsey originally as Cardinal College with his red Cardinal hat depicted in the college crest. The college is unique with a Cathedral within its walls and has an amazing Great Tudor Hall with a portrait of Henry VIII hanging above the High Table, beautiful quadrangle and even runs its own time being GMT plus five minutes! The college has many notable past students including Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), the preacher John Wesley, fourteen Prime Ministers including Prime Minister 1834 – 1846 Robert Peel, 19 th century four time Prime Minister William Gladstone and in more recent years the broadcaster David Dimbleby, the screenwriter Richard Curtis and composer Howard Goodall.
Today Christ Church is probably most noteworthy with the younger population as it was used for the filming of Harry Potter films with the Great Staircase scene to the moment where Harry sees his parents in the mirror.
The city of Oxford is always wonderful to visit whilst carrying out residential and commercial building surveys with its wealth of old and new buildings, its large variety of shops and restaurants and riverside walks.
Building Survey Oxford
If you are planning to book a building survey on a property you are purchasing in Oxford or the surrounding area then we would like to assure you that we always send a suitably qualified and experienced surveyor to carry out the job. This ensures that you get expert advice on any issues that we may find with the property we are surveying. All our surveyors are members of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors - RICS - and are Independent Chartered Building Surveyors. Being 'independent' means that they are working for you and you alone; they do not work for a mortgage company or an estate agents, so they have your best interests at heart.
All our survey contain lots of images, clearly showing any problems that we have identified at the property such as woodworm, rising damp or cracking to the walls. We also use sketches in our survey which are aimed at helping you to understand how certain areas are constructed or to help show more clearly a problem that we have identified. You will also find lots of definitions of any building terminology that we may use in our survey, as we firmly believe in 'Plain English' and really want you to fully understand what we are saying in the survey report.
Independent Chartered Building Surveyor
1st Associated Chartered Surveyors cover the whole of the UK including all areas of Oxfordshire for example in:
Abingdon, with its impressive County Hall building, Banbury, known for the nursery rhyme, Bicester, with its designer outlet shopping centre, Burford, on the River Windrush, in the Windrush Valley which is a picturesque area to carry out buildings surveys in, Chipping Norton, Didcot, with its Railway Centre and collection of steam engines etc, Goring, set in the beautiful Cotswolds a delight to travel to as a chartered surveyor, Henley-on-Thames, well known for its Regatta, Kidlington, one of the largest villages in England where we have carried out many residential building surveys, Kings Sutton , with the church of St Peter and St Paul at its heart, Great Milton, and its famous Le Manoir Aux Quat' Saisons restaurant, Oxford, and its dreamy spires where we have conducted many residential and commercial building surveys, Shipton-under-Wychwood, with the fine Elizabethan Shipton Court, Thame, with many 16th and 17th century inns, Wallingford, with its annual Royal Swan Upping on the Thames, Witney, on the banks of the River Windrush, Woodstock, with the impressive Blenheim Palace and Yarnton on the A44 north of Oxford.
We provide Building Surveys to make sure you are buying the right property and provide market Valuations to ensure that you are buying the property at the right price together with Specific Defects Reports if you have any problems in any particular area then contact us today for a free, no obligation quotation.
Oxfordshire has some beautiful villages set deep in its stunning countryside and we have often found ourselves surveying properties in many of these including Adderbury, Alvescot, near RAF Brize Norton, Ascott, Ashton, Balscote, Bampton, on the edge of the Cotswolds, Beckley and Stowood, Blewbury, Bloxham, Bradwell Grove, with the Cotswold Wildlife Park nearby, Brailes, Brightwell-cum-Sotwell, Brookhampton, Chalgrove , with St Mary's church and its fine medieval wall paintings, Chinnor, Chiselhampton, Cropredy, Curbridge, Deddington, about 6 miles south of Oxford, Dorchester-on-Thames, Drayton St Leonard, with its delightful thatched cottages, Great Tew, Headington, Hinton Waldrist, Horspath, with its 15 Listed buildings, Kennington, Kingston Bagpuize with Southmoor, Leafield, with its church designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, Letcombe Regis, Longworth, Lower Shiplake, Nettlebed, Sandford on Thames, with its lock and history associated with its location on the Thames, Shiplake, Shipton-under-Wychwood, Somerton, Soning Eye, with its 18th century flour-mill which is now a theatre, Stadhampton, Stanford in the Vale , the conservation area village of Steeple Aston, Tetsworth, Uffington, Weston on the Green, Whitchurch-on-Thames, Windrush, Woodcote with its many bungalows we have had the pleasure of surveying and Wroxton.
We always recommend that people have a building survey carried out by an Independent Chartered Surveyor. It is laughable to expect that a mortgage owned / estate agent owned surveyors will give impartial advice. Call an Independent Chartered Surveyor on 0800 298 5424 for an impartial survey.
1st Associated provide house survey, commercial survey, engineers reports, property training plus more all carried out by RICS surveyors in Oxford and the surrounding areas.
Contact us today for a free, no obligation quotation, including building survey, structural survey, homebuyers reports and pre sales reports, for Oxford and the surrounding towns and villages.
Get a survey quote:
Residential Building Survey Quote
Commercial Building Survey Quote or Schedule of Condition Quote
We carry out Structural survey, Structural Building survey on Residential properties and Commercial properties throughout Oxfordshire.
References:
Whilst a lot of this is written from general knowledge and local knowledge of the area and here are some websites that we think will be of interest to you in the Oxfordshire area some of which we have used for information and we would like to give them credit for this.
BishopsStortfordHistory, EnjoyOxfordshire.com, StAlbansCathedral.com, StAlbansMuseums.org, AllAboutStAlbans.com, TringFestivalCompany.co.uk, BishopsStortford.org, Oxfordshire.com, lgc.amolad.net, Letchworth.com, FirstGardenCity.co.uk, LetchworthGC.com, Wheathampstead.org, Hemelweb.demon.co.uk, HemelToday.co.uk, HatfieldHouse.co.uk, AboutBritain.com, InformationBritain.co.uk and TheGalleria.co.uk
