0800 298 5424
Building Surveyor Dorchester
We are an independent chartered building surveyors in Dorchester. 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 Dorchester on:
Dorchester Building survey, Dorchester House survey, Property defect survey, Building disputes survey,
Chartered Building Surveyor in Dorchester
To find out some interesting facts about Dorchester and places to visit in Dorchester and the surrounding areas you can click on the boxes above.
To get a quote on a survey in Dorchester, 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 Dorchester. Dorchester is a town which is situated in Dorset.
Information on Dorchester
Dorset's county town, Dorchester is an attractive market town with plenty of stunning surrounding scenery to be enjoyed. It's most famous resident has to be Thomas Hardy who was born in 1840 just outside Dorchester in the village of Higher Bockhampton and lived most of his life in Dorset. He died in 1928, his heart is buried in St Michaels Church in Stinsford with his first wife and the rest of his ashes are in Poets Corner in Westminster Abbey. The Dorset Country Museum on High West Street has lots of information about Thomas Hardy's life and works and the National Trust look after both his birthplace Hardy Cottage in Higher Bockhampton which is a beautiful traditionally built cob cottage with a thatched roof and also Max Gate where he spent his latter years. Dorchester's links to Roman Times were discovered in the 1930's during an excavation when The Roman Town House was discovered which you can view and many of its artefacts are on display at the Dorset County Museum . To the south of Dorchester is Maiden Castle , the largest Iron Age hill fort in Britain.
Poundbury Village is also nearby which is the village created by Prince Charles.
Dorchester has many highly sought after areas such as Manor Park , West Bexington and Crossways to name just a few. Those that enjoy the splendid views of Chesil Beach and the Jurassic Coastline can of course command a premium price. If you are in the process of purchasing a property in Dorchester we would advise a building survey rather than just a mortgage survey as they provide you with a detailed survey report of the property advising of any hidden defects which are difficult to spot unless by an experienced chartered surveyor. Don't delay, call today to arrange a survey in Dorchester or throughout Dorset.
Building Survey Dorchester
If you are planning to book a building survey on a property you are purchasing in Dorchester 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 Dorset for example in:
Abbotsbury which has beautiful 16th century cottages and a fascinating historical background dating back to the Bronze and Iron Age, Boscombe where you can try out Europe's first artificial surf reef, Alderholt, Beaminster, Bere Regis, Blandford Forum, Bournemouth a popular seaside resort with sandy beaches and pier, have a great day out at the Tank Museum at Bovington, Bridport, Broadmayne, Broadway, catch a ferry to Brownsea Island where the first Boy Scouts group was established, Burton Bradstock, Cerne Abbas which has the largest hill drawing in Britain, the Cerne Abbas Giant, Charminster, Charmouth, Chesil Beach a vast 18 miles of Jurassic Coast, Chickerell, Child Okeford / Shillingstone, Christchurch with the magnificent architecture of Christchurch Priory, Corfe Castle with of course the ruins of Corfe Castle, Corfe Mullen, Crossways, Dorchester where Thomas Hardy lived for most of his life, East Lulworth, the pretty village of Easton with wide streets and Dorchester stone houses, Ferndown, Gillingham, Hamworthy, the seaside town of Highcliffe on Sea, go fossil hunting on the beaches at Lyme Regis, Poole Harbour which is said to be the second largest natural harbour in the world next to Sydney, Portland which quarries the famous Dorchester stone which has been used in many prestigious buildings including the restoration of St Pauls Cathedral, Preston, Puddletown, Sandbanks which reputably has one of the most expensive land values in the world, Gold Hill in Shaftesbury where the famous Hovis bread advert was filmed, Sherborne which has two castles and a 15th century abbey, Stalbridge, St Leonards, St Ives, catch the ferry to Swanage, visit Old Wardour Castle near Tisbury, Upton, Upwey, Verwood, Wareham where you can visit the rescued apes at Monkey World, West Bay, West Knighton, West Lulworth, West Moors, Weymouth.
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 Dorchester 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 Dorchester 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 Dorset.
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 Dorset area some of which we have used for information and we would like to give them credit for this.
tankmuseum.org; monkeyworld.org; dorset-newforest.com; visitdorset.com; bournemouth.co.uk/; dorchesterdorset.com; theheritagetrail.co.uk; dorchester.co.uk; visitweymouth.co.uk; iknow-dorset.co.uk; lymeregis.org; dorsets.co.uk; vrpool.co.uk; isleofpurbeck.com; nationaltrust.org.uk; cerneabbas.org.uk; dorsets.co.uk; abbotsbury.co.uk; zoopla.co.uk
