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Building Surveyor Hatfield
We are an independent chartered building surveyors in Hatfield. 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 Hatfield on:
Hatfield Building survey, Hatfield House survey, Property defect survey, Building disputes survey,
Chartered Building Surveyor in Hatfield
To find out some interesting facts about Hatfield and places to visit in Hatfield and the surrounding areas you can click on the boxes above.
To get a quote on a survey in Hatfield, 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 Hatfield. Hatfield is a town which is situated in Hertordshire.
Information on Hatfield
Hatfield is another town we often find ourselves in conducting structural building surveys. Hatfield is located in south Hertfordshire about 20 miles north of London. Hatfield has very good transport links with two airports not a great distance away (Luton and Stanstead) and good road and rail links.
In the Saxon era Hatfield was known as 'Hetfelle' and later became known as 'Haethfeld' around the time of 970 when King Edgar gave some of the land to the monastery of Ely. In 1226 Henry II granted the bishops of Ely the rights to hold a market each week and a yearly four day fair.
The town centre is very much two places in one, we have the old original town and the newer retail centre. The original town is now known as Old Hatfield. There are a number of historic buildings in the 'Old Hatfield' part of the town, such as The Old Palace which was built by the Bishop of Ely in 1497 under the reign of Henry VII. St Etheldreda's Church was built in 1285 and was constructed of wood. It is likely that the current church is situated on the site of the old wooden one. Hatfield House is the home of 7th Marquess and Marchioness of Salisbury, built in1611, by Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury in fine Jacobean style. Before she became Queen, Elizabeth I was held in the Old Palace in Hatfield Park for three years. In 1558 it was here that she was told that she was to become Queen of England.
There are a variety of different styles and ages of property in the area. Hatfield was designated a New Town after WWII.
In years gone by it is famous for craft design and was the home of British Aerospace (which started way back in the 1930's and was the biggest employer in the area and the site where British Aerospace used to be located was used for Steven Spielberg's movie Saving Private Ryan) and this also accounts for much of the architecture from the 1920's although it is forever being revived and is very much characterised by its clean lines and what we would describe as uncomplicated and unfussy simple design.
Hatfield has a mixture of properties from the smaller cottages or apartments to larger substantial dwellings in Kentish Lane, Woodhill and Essendon.
Building Survey Hatfield
If you are planning to book a building survey on a property you are purchasing in Hatfield 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 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, 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, 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 Hatfield 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 Hatfield 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 Hatfield 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 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
