As a long established House Clearance and Probate Valuation Company based in Reigate we are able to provide our services anywhere within 20 miles of the postcode area.
The majority of our work is by recommendation, and we have been carrying out house clearances and probate valuation work in Reigate for many years. By reputation, and as a local company, we are regularly instructed by solicitors, executors and private clients to carry out all types of probate valuations and house clearance.
After valuing the contents and chattels of an estate for probate purposes, we are able to clear the house of furniture, personal effects and all residual contents, and arrange for items to be sent to auction, delivered to a location of your choice, donated to charity, recycled, or where necessary, disposed of, leaving it ready for sale or transfer to a landlord.
We also carry out house clearances in circumstances where there is no probate valuation involved.
We specialise in clearing large heavily furnished, cluttered or neglected properties possibly the result of ill health or compulsive hoarding (OCD). After receiving your instruction we can clear your property quickly and methodically, and during the process retain any personal items, documents or concealed valuables for your examination. Our experienced staff will make the whole process easy and stress free, even if you are organising the clearance from another part of the country or overseas.
We provide our own closed vehicles, (contents not visible externally, so as to ensure privacy) to clear away all household contents. Parking permits are arranged and included in all our quotes. Our aim is to assist you fully by taking care of the entire job from start to finish.
If you need a Valuation for Probate or a House Clearance in Reigate Call us now on 0800 567 7769.
For free advice and more detailed information contact Jeff Avery.
Our initial consultation and all our quotations are free and without obligation.
Private, trade or solicitors references provided on request.
Reigate is a historic market town in Surrey, England at the foot of the North Downs, and in the London commuter belt. It is one of the main constituents of the Borough of Reigate and Banstead. Reigate and the adjacent town of Redhill form a single urban area.
Colley Hill, one mile (1.6 km) north of Reigate, is the sixth highest point in Surrey at 756 feet (230 m). Reigate Hill, one mile (1.6 km) to the east of Colley Hill, is the seventh highest point in Surrey at 723 feet (220 m).
There are neolithic flint mines on the ridge of the North Downs above Reigate. The Bronze Age barrows on Reigate Heath indicate there was ancient settlement in the area. A Bronze Age spearhead was recovered on Park Hill in Reigate Priory Park. In 2004 a circa 92 AD Roman tile kiln was recovered from the grounds of Rosehill in Doods Way, Reigate. Being geologically suited, this was only one of a series of tile kilns in the area. The tiles would have been used for important buildings in London. The Rosehill find is the oldest recorded use of Reigate Stone (Upper Greensand) for "ashlar masonry work".
The town lay within the Reigate hundred, an Anglo-Saxon administrative division. Reigate appears in Domesday Book in 1086 as Cherchefelle which appears to mean 'the open space by the hill'. (The name has nothing to do with the church and the element Cherche is a later corruption). It was held by William the Conqueror. Its Domesday assets were: 34 hides. It had 2 mills worth 11s 10s, 29 ploughs, 12 acres (49,000 m2) of meadow, pannage and herbage worth 183 hogs. It rendered £40.
The earlier site was located, at least in part, in what is now the Church Street area of Reigate. Part of the site was excavated in the 1970s. It was shown that the settlement moved during the earlier part of the 12th century when the present new town was formed. William I granted the land around Reigate to one of his supporters, William de Warenne, who was created Earl of Surrey in 1088. It is believed that his son, William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey, ordered that Reigate Castle be built, although the de Warennes had their southern base in Lewes, Sussex, as well as castles in Yorkshire and Normandy. Around 1150 the de Warennes ordered that a town be constructed below the castle. This town forms the basis of modern-day Reigate. Little is known of the Castle which has never been excavated on any great scale. Local legend says prior to the signing of the Magna Carta, the rebellious barons met to hammer out the details of the document in the extensive caves beneath the castle. The story however has no truth to it. The castle later fell into decay and was later demolished, though the grounds remain as a public garden, and the caves are occasionally opened for tours.
The origin of the name Reigate is uncertain, but appears to derive from Roe-deer Gate, as the town was situated near to the entrance to the de Warenne's deer park.
The interesting facts on this page about Reigate, Surrey, GU7 were derived from Wikipedia
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Probate valuations (also known as valuation for probate) and house clearance services in London and SE England
Call us for more information on estate probate valuation, and house clearance, (including the clearing of very large properties with years of accumulated possessions): (24hrs) 0800 567 7769