Building Surveyor in Abbots Langley

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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 Abbots Langley. Abbots Langley is a town which is situated in Hertfordshire.

Information on Abbots Langley

Situated close to where the M1 crosses with the M25 at junction 21/21a M1 and junction 6/6a M25 and bordered by the A41 and A405 is the large village of Abotts Langley in south west Hertfordshire where we often find ourselves commissioned to carry out structural surveys. The village is between Watford and Hemel Hempstead, and close to St Albans and with its good major road links a commuter village to not only the towns mentioned but London too with the Grand Union Canal running through it also.

Abbots Langley is an old settlement and is mentioned in the Domesday Book. The village name is recorded in 1045 in Saxon times as being called ‘Langelei', meaning a long meadow or long lea. The record exists because Ethelwine the Black and his wife Wynfelda gave the village to the monastery of St Albans . The Norman invasion of 1066 saw the land coming under the control of a Norman Abbot. The control of Abbots Langley under the Abbots continued up to the Tudor times.

The village has a delightful 12th century Parish Church of St Lawrence the Martyr with beautiful Norman arches at its north and south arcades.

Abbots Langley is renowned for being the birthplace of Nicholas Breakspear at Breakspear Farm near Bedmond, who is the only Englishman to ever be ordained was became Pope Adrian IV from 1154-1159; with several roads in the village being named after him and even a brewery!

In the 18th and 19th centuries many affluent people had fine houses and estates built in the area, as Abbots Langley was close to London and was a lovely area for a country retreat.

There are film studios to the south of the village on what was previously an airfield – Leavesden Film Studios, which in 2010 was purchased by Warner Bros and this has been the site where the Harry Potter series of films were made.

There are some larger detached properties in roads such as Blenheim Rd, Toms Lane and Abbots Rd in a variety of styles of construction.

 

Building Survey Abbots Langley

If you are planning to book a building survey on a property you are purchasing in Abbots Langley 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 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 Building Surveyor

1st Associated 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, Ashwell, Aston, Berkhamsted, Bishops Stortford, with its well known school, Borehamwood, home to Elstree Studios, Bovingdon, Braughing, Brent Pelhm, Brickendon Liberty, Brookmans Park, 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, Caldecote, Chipperfield, Chorley Wood, Colney Heath, Croxley Green, Flamstead, Furneaux Pelham, Harpenden, with the Common; an area of natural beauty, Hatfield, with elegant Hatfield 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, Hitchin, Hunsdon, Kings Langley, Knebworth, with the Gothic Mansion Knebworth House and its gardens and park, Letchworth Garden City, an attractive Garden City with the first roundabout in the UK where we have carried out many property reports, Little Berkhamsted, Much Hadham, Potters Bar, at junction 24 of the M25, Puckeridge, Radlett, in the valley of Tykes Water, Redbourn, Rickmansworth, with the large Aquadrome Local Nature Reserve, Rushden, Stanstead Abbotts, St Albans, famous for its Cathedral and a delightful city to visit as surveyors with its many historical buildings, Stevenage, just off the A1 at junction 7 and 8 Watford, and its large shopping centre, Stocking Pelham, Tring, home of the famous Rothschild's Natural History Museum, Watford, Welham Green, Welwyn Garden City between Hatfield and Stevenage and picturesque Wheathampstead.

 

We always recommend that people have a building survey carried out by an Independent Surveyor. It is laughable to expect that a mortgage owned / estate agent owned surveyors will give impartial advice. Call an Independent 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 Abbots Langley 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 Abbots Langley 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.

BishopsStortfordHistory, EnjoyHertfordshire.com, StAlbansCathedral.com, StAlbansMuseums.org, AllAboutStAlbans.com, TringFestivalCompany.co.uk, BishopsStortford.org, Hertfordshire.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