Chartered Building Surveyor in Stevenage

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

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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 Stevenage. Stevenage is a town which is situated in Hertfordshire.

Information on Stevenage

Heading north on the A1(M) past Welwyn Garden City at junction 7 you will find the town of Stevenage with the surrounding villages of Aston, Walkern, Graveley and Langley in Hertfordshire.

Stevenage can be divided into the old town near to St Nicholas Church, recorded in 1060 as being called Stithenaece and again in the Domesday Book of 1086 it is recorded as being called Stigenace, and the New Town, as designated in 1946, being the country's first New Town, where the need for more housing after WWII brought new housing estates in Stoney Hall, Monks Wood, Bedwell, Broadwater, Shephall, Chells, Pin Green and Symonds Green.

Stevenage is situated close to a Roman road which travelled from Baldock to Verulamium (now St Albans ) and there is evidence to suggest that some Romans settled here.

A Saxon camp has also been found in some woods and it is here that the first village was built later with a church and manor house.

In 1281 the town was given a Royal Charter allowing a yearly fair and two weekly markets. The annual fair is still held in the High Street to this day.

The population of Stevenage gradually increased over the years and due to the North Road this meant that in the 18th and early 19th century a number of stage coaches were travelling through Stevenage on a daily basis requiring the many inns to provide accommodation and a resting place for travellers and horses. This period of growth in the town slowed down after 1857 when the railways were built and there was no need for stage coaches to travel through the town.

The area has a delightful post mill, Cromer Windmill, near Ardeley, which is the only surviving mill of its type in Hertfordshire which has been restored and is open to the public.

The town has several retail parks, industrial parks and arts and leisure park with many roundabouts and the busy dual carriageway to navigate from one area to another. Stevenage has a pedestrianised centre and its claim to fame is that it was the first purposely built shopping area to be traffic free.

We have frequently been commissioned to carry out both residential and commercial building surveys in the area which boasts being the first pedestrianised town centre in the UK. Many retailers are present in the town from high street chains to smaller independents with the Westgate Centre housing many popular retailers and the retail centres around the town giving space to larger retailers such as Currys, Hobbycraft, PCWorld etc

Some larger properties in areas around Stevenage can be found in Tatlers Lane, Aston End and Church End Walkern.

Building Survey Stevenage

If you are planning to book a building survey on a property you are purchasing in Stevenage 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 Hertfordshire for example in:

Abbots Langley, the birth place of the only English Pope Nicholas Breakspear/Pope Adrian IV and a town we have often carried out surveys in, Baldock, Berkhamsted, Bishops Stortford, with its well known school, Borehamwood, home to Elstree Studios, Broxbourne, with its Paradise Wildlife Park, Cheshunt, a commuter town being only 14 miles from Charing Cross and easy to get to when carrying residential and commercial surveys, Harpenden, with the Common; an area of natural beauty, Hatfield, with elegant Stevenage House, Hemel Hempstead, with its magic roundabout great fun to negotiate on the way to doing a building survey, Hitchin, Hertford, county town of Hertfordshire, Knebworth, with the Gothic Mansion Knebworth House and its gardens and park, Letchworth, an attractive Garden City with the first roundabout in the UK where we have carried out many property reports, Potters Bar, at junction 24 of the M25, Radlett, in the valley of Tykes Water, Rickmansworth, with the large Aquadrome Local Nature Reserve, St Albans, famous for its Cathedral and a delightful city to visit as a chartered surveyor with its many historical buildings, Stevenage, just off the A1 at junction 7 and 8 Watford, and its large shopping centre, Tring, home of the famous Rothschild's Natural History Museum, Watford, Welwyn Garden City between Stevenage and Stevenage and picturesque Wheathampstead.

 

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 Stevenage 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 Stevenage and the surrounding towns and villages.

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

 

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 Hertfordshire area some of which we have used for information and we would like to give them credit for this.

Breweryhistory.com, Thomas Wethered and Sons, MarlowsSociety.Org.UK, Aylesbury Brewery Company, InformationBritain.co.uk, DestinationMiltonKeynes.co.uk, MiltonKeynes.com, TheCentreMK.com, Xcape.co.uk, MKMuseum.org, NewportPagnell.org, MKHeritage.co.uk, Britinfo.net, MarlowTown.co.uk, TheMarlowRegatta.com, BucksCC.gov.uk, HighWycombeSociety.org.uk, PostCarbonLiving.com, Buckinghamtoday.co.uk, GerrardsCross.gov.uk and VisionofBritain.org.uk