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Building Surveyor Essex

We are an independent chartered building surveyors in Essex. We provide all types of property advice, with a 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 a building survey and give independent advice in Essex on:

Essex Building survey, Essex House survey, Property defect survey, Building disputes survey, Essex Dilapidation survey, Essex Building survey, Essex Commercial building survey, Essex schedule of condition survey

Home Surveyor in Essex

If you book a building survey in Essex with 1st Associated Surveyors you will find that we take great pride in the quality of our building survey and produce a very detailed building survey report, whether it be for a residential property or a commercial property. We use plain English in our Building Surveys to explain any problems with the property to ensure that you understand the problems and how to resolve them.

1st Associated Chartered Building Surveyors cover the whole of the UK including all towns and villages in Essex for example in:

Abridge, Aveley, Basildon, Benfleet, Billericay, Braintree, Brentwood, Brightlingsea, Burnham on Crouch, Canvey Island, Chelmsford the county town of Essex, Chigwell, Chipping Ongar, Clacton on Sea, Chigwell, Coggeshall, Colchester, Corringham, Danbury, Earl's Colne, East Hanningfield, Epping, Epping Forest, Frinton on Sea, Grays, Great Baddow, Great Bentley Great Dunmow, Halstead, Harlow, Harwich, Little Baddow, Loughton, Maldon, Manningtree, Ockendon, Saffron Walden, Southend on Sea, Southminster, Stanford le Hope, Stansted, Thaxted, Theydon Bois, Theydon Garnon, Tilbury, Tiptree, Waltham Abbey, Walton on the Naze, West Mersea, Westcliff-on-Sea, Wickford, Witham, Wivenhoe, Woodham Ferrers.

 

Building Surveyor Essex

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

We are an independent chartered surveyor in Essex. 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 Essex

We are a building surveyors that operate throughout the UK. As a building surveyors in Essex 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 Essex

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

Information on Essex and where to get a building survey

The thing I like most about the area of Essex as a surveyor is that you can travel from what would best be described as a London life area and enjoy the hustle and bustle to beautiful oldie worldie villages and then onto the seaside resorts. The chartered building surveyors at 1stAssociated.co.uk will carry out building surveys in Essex , sometimes known as structural surveys to put your mind at rest before you purchase a property. We know there is a great variety of places to visit in Essex including Basildon which was designated as a new town in the 1940's and 1950's to cope with the overspill population from East London, Braintree which has a long history starting from the Bronze Age to woollen cloth trade in the 14 th century and silk weaving in the 18th century, all of which has been recorded at Braintree District Museum, Brentwood with its pleasant “green” feel with a good scattering of parks, commons and woodland, the unspoilt resort of Brightlingsea, Canvey Island's Coat of Arms has the motto “Ex Mare Dei Gratia” meaning “From the sea by the Grace of God”, Chelmsford the county town of Essex since 1250 probably best known for Marconi the wireless inventor who was based in the city for many years, Clacton on Sea a popular seaside resort with its sandy beaches and fun packed pier, Chigwell which was made famous in the 1990's from the popular sitcom Birds of a Feather, Colchester, Britain's oldest recorded town (Camulodunum was the pre-Roman name for Colchester) referred to in AD77 by the Roman writer, Pliny the Elder, t he village of Danbury where you can explore the countryside using the Danbury Footpaths map, the village of East Hanningfield situated south east of Chelmsford, the vast Epping Forest, not forgetting the charming market town of Epping itself , the quiet seaside resort of Frinton on Sea where there was controversy regarding the removal of the “Frinton Gates”, Great Bentley with its huge 43 acre village green, Harlow known as one of the first post war new towns starting expansion in 1947, Harwich has an in teresting maritime history and is still a busy passenger ferry port today, Little Baddow where the History Centre holds many interesting records and photos of the village, Loughton situated in the heart of Epping Forest, Maldon one of the oldest recorded towns in Essex, Manningtree which boasts that it is England's smallest town and was the home of the notorious witch finder Matthew Hopkins, the pretty market town of Saffron Walden, Southend on Sea a popular family seaside resort where you can take a railway trip to the end of the pleasure pier, Stansted the third largest airport serving the London area after Heathrow and Gatwick, Thaxted which is well known for its festival and for the Thaxted Morris Men, the commuter village of Theydon Bois and Theydon Garnon where All Saints Church is a well known landmark overlooking the M11 and, Waltham Abbey where you can visit the Abbey which in 1540 was the last abbey to be dissolved by Henry VIII.

 

We would divide Essex into three areas, the London side of Essex such places as Romford and Brentwood . There are the seaside resorts of Southend-on-Sea, Clacton-on-Sea , Frinton-on-Sea and Walton-on-the-Naze to the rural areas including Constable country such as Maldon area.

The thing I like most about the area of Essex as a surveyor is that you can travel from what would best be described as a London life area say in Brentwood, Basildon or Loughton for example and enjoy the hustle and bustle to beautiful oldie worldie villages which range in size from the quite large market town of Saffron Walden with its market to the smaller towns such as Great Dunmow and Maldon to the seaside resorts of Clacton-on-Sea, Brightlingsea, Bradwell-on-Sea, Burnham on Crouch and of course probably the largest Southend-on-Sea, not forgetting the very beautiful area of Canvey Island which is so different. There are the major cities of Chelmsford with Anglian Ruskin University which is also linked with Cambridge and a good range of shops both national brands and local specialists to the large areas of Colchester with major businesses located there to the fairly unique new town of Harlow although we are not sure whether it can still be called a new town!

Getting around in Essex

It has the benefit of the M25, M11 and the A12. You can fly out from Stansted Airport and there is also an airport in Southend. Essex is covered by a fairly good rail network.

Property types in the area

We have looked at all types of properties in the Essex area from the timber framed properties in the older parts and the rural areas. You can appreciate as we are busy doing surveys that we have picked a very large challenge to actually look at and talk about all the different property types in all the different areas. You have the range from the timber framed Tudor properties, many with the three dimensional rendering and pargeting rendering to weatherboarding which Essex is known for, also called shiplap boarding in some areas of the country. This is simply overlapping boards to protect the outer face of the property. As with most areas in Britain the Victorians have the major influence on them as the transport system developed and bricks got delivered throughout the country along with slate.

If you feel that we have missed a type of architecture in your area we would always be pleased to hear from you. Please contact our freephone number 0800 298 5424 if you want any advice on a property that you are about to buy. We provide structural surveys or building surveys. We can also advise you on what you can or can't do to a property if you are looking to alter or extend it. This is particularly important with listed and older properties.

 

Please contact our free phone number 0800 298 5424 if you want any advice on a property that you are about to buy. We provide structural surveys or building surveys. We can also advise you on what you can or can't do to a property if you are looking to alter or extend it which is particularly important with listed and older properties.

 

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 Essex area some of which we have used for information and we would like to give them credit for this.

Visitessex.com; Visitcolchester.com; visitsaffrontwalden.gov.uk ; visit southend .co.uk ; dunmow eb.co.uk ; clacton-on-sea -essex.co.uk ; canveyisland .org ; brightlingsea -town.co.uk ; colchester.com; Harwich.net; essex-sunshine-coast.org.uk; frinton.org; visitharlow.com; walthamabbey-tc.gov.uk ; itsaboutmaldon.co.uk; aboutbritain.com; stansted-airport-guide.co.uk; visit-manningtree.co.uk; loughton-tc.gov.uk

Zoopla.co.uk; danbury-essex.gov.uk; littlebaddow.org.uk/; essexwt.org.uk; thaxted.co.uk ; thaxtedmorris.org;