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Building Surveyor East Sussex

For more information on the East Sussex area please scroll down and if you are looking for a survey in East Sussex use our free phone number 0800 298 5424.

The surrounding counties are Kent to the East, West Sussex to the West and Surrey to the North and of course the beautiful coastline to the South with Regency splendour of Brighton to the oldie worldie feel of Hastings and Rye and the family resort of Eastbourne.

East Sussex Building Surveyor

If you are purchasing a property in East Sussex, please ensure that you have a building survey carried out on it. A building survey, prepared by a chartered building surveyor could literally save you thousands of pounds. The survey only needs to uncover one potential problem with the property and the cost of the building survey is more than recovered.

East Sussex property survey

East Sussex is made up of five areas which are Lewes, Wealdon, Rother, Eastbourne and Hastings. It has a Saxon background and its county town is Lewes and its major towns are Brighton, Eastbourne and Hastings. It incorporates the South Downs which where the chalky hills can be seen and the rivers in the area are the River Ouse and River Cuckmere stretching from Brighton with a pebbled beach to the Rye area and as far as Pepit Level where there is Camber Sands with marshland. This is a beautiful area for carrying out surveys , b eing a surveyor travelling around the area is important to know the main routes most of these ‘A' roads such as the A27, A22, A271 and A26 with the M23 not too far away outside the Sussex area.

 

Here is a surveyors view on the beautiful area of East Sussex and we are going to start near the Kent border in the lovely area but is perhaps quite different from what you are used to seeing in East Sussex Pepit Level if you put this into your Satnav and take a drive and will take you from The Smugglers free house pub and then drive along Winchelsea beach to Rye, we think the scenery is breath taking and will you see a fantastic stretch of coast line, stop get out and have a look (OK it does have a pebble beach but the view is stunning) it is particularly interesting looking land the marshes and reed beds are more akin to Norfolk with the exception of the sheep (if I was going to be a sheep this is certainly where I would like to live)!

 

Home Surveyor in East Sussex

1stAssociated.co.uk have Chartered Surveyors who cover the whole of the UK including: Battle, Bexhill on Sea, Brighton and Hove, Crowborough, near Tunbridge Wells (although just over the border into Kent) , Eastbourne, East Haven, Forest Row, Hailsham, Hartfield, Hastings, Heathfield, Lewes, Mayfield, Netherfield, New Haven, Pevensey, Polegate, Robertsbridge, Rye, Seaford, St Leonards on Sea, Uckfield , Wadhurstand Winchelsea.

 

As a chartered surveyor we have often surveyed in East Sussex villages such as Alfriston, Brede, Burwash , with the beautiful converted farm buildings at Burwash Manor, East Dean, Etchingham, Firle , Flimwell, Forest Row, Frant, where you can carp fish on one of the eight lakes, Friston, Horam Kingston, Mayfield, Pevensey Bay, a delight to visit when surveying Ringmer, Rotherfiled, Rottingdean, Stonegate, Ticehurst, just off the A21, Wadhurst and Wivelsfield

Places of Interest Properties we have surveyed in this area Facts about this area Types of property in this area

Building Surveyor East Sussex

Discover more about us and why an INDEPENDENT BUILDING SURVEY is so important

We are an Independent Chartered Surveyor in East Sussex. We are independent of any lender or bank or mortgage company. When we are surveying a property we are working for you, not them. This means we are working towards your best interests. We want to ensure that your property investment is sound and that you are receiving value for money.

Residential Building Surveyors East Sussex

We are a Building Surveyors that operate throughout the UK. As a Building Surveyor in East Sussex we are often asked to work on not only a Building Survey but also a boundary walls dispute survey, a schedule of condition survey and a specific defect survey.

Commercial Building Surveyor East Sussex

We are also a commercial building surveyors - still operating East Sussex, we can provide schedule of condition survey, dilapidations reports and a commercial building survey - our East Sussex building surveyors have the skills and experience to save you money on your commercial building purchase.

Information on East Sussex and where to get a building survey

For more information on the East Sussex area please scroll down and if you are looking for a survey in East Sussex use our free phone number 0800 298 5424 . 1stAssociated.co.uk have Chartered Surveyors who cover the whole of the UK including Battle , famous for 1066 battle, Bexhill on Sea , with its modernist De La Warr Pavilion, Brighton , we like surveying in this town with its famous Lanes, Crowborough , near Tunbridge Wells, Eastbourne , with the chalky Beachy Head tourist spot, East Haven , with its Combe Haven Holiday Park, Forest Row , with its many Grade II Listed buildings which are a delight to survey, Hailsham, with beautiful views across Pevensey Levels, carrying out surveys in Hastings, in between East and West Hills, Heathfield , close to the Kent border, Lewes , just north of Brighton, Mayfield , just off the A267, Netherfield , between Battle and Brightling, New Haven , at the mouth of the River Ouse, Pevensey is another town where we enjoy carrying out surveys with the beautiful old Mint House dating back to around 1342, Polegate, with Cuckoo Trail walks starting from the village, Robertsbridge , with its oldest property in Fair Lane dating back to 1390, Rye , famous for its cobbled streets, Seaford , the delightful coastal town at the foot of the South Downs where we have done many residential buildings surveys and commercial surveys, St Leonards on Sea , with Filsham Reedbed within the Combe Haven Valley , Uckfield , Wadhurst , with its 18 th century Gate House next to the church and Winchelsea which was originally a Saxon fishing settlement and another town we often carry out structural surveys in.

Some interesting facts about the Weald area

The Weald divides itself into High Weald which is the sandstone area and Low Weald which is the clay area and sand area. Weald itself means a forest or trees and is home to The Weald and Downland Open air Museum which is an amazing place, we are a member of this very special place which is the leading museum for historic buildings in England which has buildings dated from the13 th to 19 th century which have been rescued from lost and carefully and lovingly resurrected. In the 50 odd acres the museum takes up, many then have had appropriate gardens etc added to them and is a great day out. They also do some fantastic courses there, we have been on ones on lime, on bricks and on timber, we really have only scratched the surface.

Wealden Hall House is so famous it has made Wikipedia.

Weald timber framed construction is common in East Sussex and in Kent , for those interested there is plenty on the internet about timber framed structures. However the internet is not as good as visiting the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum where you will be able to structures that have used wattle and daub and thatched roofs that have been white washed, typical of the Weald construction it was only later in Victorian times that the timbers were blackened and that the bits between the timber frames were in filled with brick. Here are some examples of this that you may wish to visit; The Old Punch Bowl, Crawley, West Sussex, the Monks Barn, Newport East, Essex and examples of course in the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum such as The Bayleaf Farmhouse.

 

We provide Building Surveys to make sure you are buying the right property and provide market Valuations to ensure that you are buying the property at the right price together with Specific Defects Reports if you have any problems in any particular area then contact us today for a free, no obligation quotation. We are more than happy to talk about what the Building Surveys involve, these are also sometimes known as Structural Surveys or Engineers Reports. For those not living in the area here is some general information on East Sussex .

 

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Property Courses
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