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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 Ashford. Ashford is a town which is situated in Kent.
Travelling south from Maidstone on the M20 towards Folkestone is the large town of Ashford with its interesting mix with the old and new parts of the town with 1960's buildings still remaining.
The M20 links to the M25 London Orbital Motorway making Ashford a popular commuter town with the number of residents growing extremely rapidly with it more than trebling in the last forty years as well as having the International Eurostar terminal and great rail links to London stations. The other motorways in Kent are M2 (Gillingham to Faversham) and M26 (which joins the M20 to the M25) and very handy for getting to the Bluewater Shopping centre and then crossing over the Dartford crossing to get to the Lakeside Thurrock centre and there are rail links from the Channel Tunnel in the area which is probably why it is considered a good investment area.
Ashford Kent is not to be confused with Ashford Surrey and is made up of several villages including Little Chart and Great Chart, Kennington, with the parish church of St Mary's, Appledore, Bethersden, to the south west on the A28, Willesborough with the William Harvey Hospital and delightful Grade II* Listed Windmill and Victorian cottage and Kingsnorth to name but a few. The town is surrounded by beautiful countryside with chocolate box villages and picturesque water meadows and ancient woodlands with the author H E Bates converting the old granary in Little Chart into a home and enjoying the surrounding area which was a great inspiration for many of his books including the Darling Buds of May. The area has many interesting buildings including Stocks Windmill which dates back to 1781 and the 17 th /18 th century timber framed barn and cart shed which houses Woodchurch Village Life Museum on Susan's Hill.
The town is noted for several famous residents including the author Frederick Forsyth who was born in the town, poets Alfred Austin and John Fuller and the French philosopher Simone Weil who died at the sanatorium in Kennington in 1943. The town is one we frequently visit to carry out both residential and commercial building surveys and is twinned with Fougeres in France , Bad Munstereifel in Germany and Hopewell , Virginia in the USA .
There is a large Designer outlet Ashford which has many different shops which range from M&S, Clarks , Ted Baker and Fred Perry. There are great facilities with places to eat, lots of parking and many new shops opening each year.
Over the years as Surveyors we have carried out many residential and commercial building surveys in Ashford and the surrounding towns and villages and note some substantial detached houses in roads such as Charing Hill and Canterbury Road for example.
If you are planning to book a building survey on a property you are purchasing in Ashford 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.
1st Associated Surveyors cover the whole of the UK including all areas of Kent for example in: Acol, Ashford, Badlesmere, Benenden, Boughton , Boxley, Brasted, Bridge, Broadstairs, Canterbury, Chatham, Chelsfield, Chiddingstone, Chilham, Cranbrook, Dartford, Davington, Deal, Detling, Doddington, Dover, Dunkirk, Dymchurch, Eastling, Edenbridge, Egerton, Elham, Elmsted Court, Eynsford, Folkestone, Golden Green, Goodnestone, Goudhurst, Graveney, Gravesend, Great Chart, Great Mongeham, Greatstone, Greenstreet, Halstead, Hamstreet, Harrietsham, Hastingleigh, Hawkinge, Hayes, Herne Bay, Hernhill, Horsmonden, Kings Hill, Kingsdown, Kingston, Knockholt, Lamberhurst , Langton Green, Leaveland, Leeds, Lenham, Lower Halstow, Luddenham, Lyminge, Lynsted, Maidstone, county town of Kent, Manston, Marden, Margate, Meopham, Minster, Molash, Newnham, Norton, Oare, Old Bexley, Ospringe, Otford, Otterden, Painters Forstal, Pembury, Penshurst, Pluckley, Ramsgate, Rochester, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Rusthall, Sandgate, Selling, Sevenoaks, Shottenden, Sissinghurst, Slade Green, Speldhurst, St Nicholas at Wade, Stalisfield, Staple , Staplehurst , Stelling Minnis, Sundridge, Sutton, Tenterden, Teynham, Throwley, Tonbridge, Toys Hill, Uplees, Warren Street, Wateringbury, West Farleigh, West Malling, Whitstable, Wichling, Wilmington, Wilmington, Wrotham Heath and Wye.
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.
Contact us today for a free, no obligation quotation, including building survey, structural survey, homebuyers reports and pre sales reports, for Ashford 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 Kent.
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 Kent area some of which we have used for information and we would like to give them credit for this.
Lakeside Development, Thurrock Essex section
What did we survey in Hythe? And What did we survey in Dungeness?
HoppingDowninKent.org.uk, Camelotintel.com/heritage/counties/England
Tunbridge Wells Borough Council Buildings Page for more information – they have a free downloadable Listed Buildings a guide for owners leaflet, WhiteCliffCountry.org, EnglishHeritage.org, TheHeritageTrail.co.uk, WCCTA.org.uk, VisitThanet.co.uk, CinquePorts.org, OpenSandwich.co.uk, EnglishHeritage.co.uk, SeeWhitstable.com, Oysta.fsnet.co.uk, WhitstableOysterFestival.com, Canterbury.co.uk, CanterburyCathedral.org, CanterburyTales.org, Bluewater.co.uk, Lakeside.co.uk, TourMaidstone.com, Museum.Maidstone.com, ThisIsAshford.co.uk and LyddAirport.co.uk