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Our Residential Building Surveys and our Commercial Building Surveys are tailor made to suit your requirements. When you book your survey we will ask you to grade your property knowledge from 1 - 4, with 1 being 'next to no property knowledge' and 4 being 'excellent property knowledge'. From this we can tailor make your survey. Depending upon your knowledge level we will add additional photographs to the survey or will give you more definitions of building terminology, or add extra sketches to help describe particular areas of concern or to show you for example what type of roof your proposed property has or what type of brickwork the property is built in. By doing this we can make sure that you completely understand the property you are buying and that you understand what the issues are.

Facts and places of interest in and around Stevenage

Interesting Facts about Stevenage

• When building the New Town two thousand Roman silver coins were found.

• The Six Hills are six tumuli (burial mounds) located next to the Great North Road ; believed to be Roman.

• The Domesday Book records that the Abbot of Westminster was the town's Lord of the Manor.

• In Whomerley Woods there is a large trench which is all that is left of a medieval moated homestead believed to be the home of Ralph de Homle. Roman pottery has been found here.

• Following the 1946 New Towns Act Stevenage was the first Hertfordshire town to be developed.

• In the 1850s and 1860s Charles Dickens visited Knebworth House on many occasions and acted in private theatricals there.

• A quote by Charles Dickens In 1861 about Stevenage : "The village street was like most other village streets: wide for its height, silent for its size, and drowsy in the dullest degree. The quietest little dwellings with the largest of window-shutters to shut up nothing as if it were the Mint or the Bank of England."

• Winston Churchill frequently visited Knebworth House and painted a picture of the Banqueting Hall which is now on display in this very room.

• Stevenage has four twin towns: Autun in France , Ingelheim in Germany , Kadoma in Zimbabwe and Shimkent in Kazakhstan.

• There are over 240 acres of woodland in about 40 areas throughout Stevenage.

• It is believed that Stevenage has around 40,000 trees in the streets and open spaces.

• The first public house built as part of the New Town project was the ‘ Twin Foxes' in the Bidwell estate. The Twin Foxes was named after Albert Ebenezer and Ebenezer Albert Fox, identical twins, who were local poachers.

• Stevenage has indoor and outdoor markets in the Town Centre.

• There are a few yearly events held in Stevenage , namely the Stevenage Town Show, the Carnival and the Rock in the Park concert.

• Formula One racing driver Lewis Hamilton was born in Stevenage.

• The Secretary to Oliver Cromwell, John Thurloe, used to live at the house which is now the Cromwell Hotel.

• In the 18 th century there was a farmer called Henry Trigg, who had a desire to come back to life after being dead for 30 years. To this end his coffin was put in a barn up on a beam. This barn later became a put in Old Stevenage.

• In 1958 Queen Elizabeth II came to Stevenage and opened the first purpose built pedestrianised town centre in Britain which was free from any motor traffic in.

• The town has a retail park named ‘Roaring Meg', the retail park takes its name from the river running underneath it.

Places of Interest in and around Stevenage

Knebworth House

Knebworth House is a gothic Tudor manor house with towers and turrets along with griffins and gargoyles which has become famous for its rock concerts. The house was the home of Victorian novelist Edward Bulwer Lytton - author of the words "The pen is mightier than the sword".

Internally the Tudor Great Hall has Victorian embellishments and the Library doors masquerade as bookshelves.

The house is set in 250 acres of formal gardens and deer park . There is something for all ages, including a maze and a dinosaur trail in the garden.

Cromer Windmill

Cromer Windmill dates from 1679/1681 and is the earliest sort of English windmill and is the last existing postmill in Hertfordshire. The windmill takes its name from the huge oak post on which the mill body turns to face the sails into the wind, no matter what its direction.

The windmill was still being used up to 1923 and the then became run down after many years the mill has been restored under the Hertfordshire Building Preservation Trust.

Stevenage Museum

Stevenage Museum has a large collection of photographs and exhibits. The items on display tell the history of Stevenage right from the Stone Age to the present day.

St Nicholas Church

The earliest part of St Nicholas Church dates back to the 1100s, but it was more than likely a place of worship before this. Good records have been kept and the list of known priests or rectors goes back to 1213. In about 1500 the Church had a make-over with decorative woodwork being added internally and a clerestory was added.

Benington Lordship Gardens

Benington Lordship Gardens is a set in a very pretty village. In the gardens you can see the ancient ruins of a Norman castle and some wonderful flowers and plants.

Chesfield Church, Near Gravely

Chesfield Church is the ruins of a medieval church dating from around the 1300s, however there is evidence to believe that a church was on the site by 1216. All that survives is a rectangular nave and chancel and a small later chapel at the south east corner.

Six Hills Barrow, Stevenage

The Six Hills barrows date from the first century AD and are considered to be one of the finest surviving complete group of Roman burial mounds in the country. The mounds used to contain the cremated remains probably of an aristocratic Roman family, however each of the graves have been opened up in the past. The fact that the mounds are grouped close together seems to suggest that this is a family buirial ground.

Whormley Wood

Whormley Wood has a medieval moated site in it which has a preserved eathworks. In 1924 and 1953 archaeological excavations took place here revealing evidence of medieval occupation.

We use our specialist database to check and double check our surveys, see: www.prosurveys.co.uk. We include photos, sketches and definitions to ensure our surveys are understood and easily interpreted. We are always happy to discuss the survey with our clients and offer independent advice; this can help with a Quick Sale. It is laughable to expect that a mortgage owned surveyor will give impartial advice. We are Independent Chartered surveyors and work for you.

If you are interested in buying a residential property in Stevenage or taking a lease on a commercial property in Stevenage then we would be pleased to offer you our professional services. As Chartered Surveyors we provide building Surveys, structural surveys, engineer's reports, homebuyers reports as well as schedule of conditions, commercial building surveys, feasibility studies etc all carried out by independent Chartered Surveyors. We would always recommend that you have a survey carried out on a property you intend to purchase in Stevenage and the surrounding area.

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