High Quality Awnings in Stevenage
Making the most of the great outdoors with an awning
An awning can provide the perfect addition to your home or business. Awnings offer shade and shelter from the intensity of the sun, they save you energy by cutting down on the use of fans and air conditioning units and a good quality awning can even add value to your home when the time comes to sell.
There is a massive choice of awnings to suit a variety of functional and aesthetic requirements, and because all our awnings are of the highest quality, you can be sure that they will offer you the following benefits:
Awnings offer protection from the sun
Although we don’t have a great deal of hot weather here in the United Kingdom, when we do, we like to make the most of it. A multi-purpose, retractable patio awning can provide the perfect amount of outdoor shade, so you and your family can enjoy the summer weather without having to hide away indoors for fear of getting sunburnt.
Whether you want to use an awning to create a shaded outdoor dining area, a nice cool place to relax after working hard in the garden, or somewhere for the children to play on hot and sunny days, an awning can reduce the temperature in the shaded area by as much twenty degrees, lowering the risk of heat stroke and sunburn. The family dog will also thank you for providing a bit of respite from the mid-day sun.
Awnings increase your living space
An awning will give you the ability to extend your living space out into your garden, this essentially offers you an extra room to your property. The simple addition of an awning will give the illusion of more space in your home, enhancing the aesthetic appeal of your property as well as increasing the enjoyment you and your family get from your home.
The awning will not only provide shade and shelter for people, but if you choose to furnish your outdoor space, with sofas or a table and chairs, your furniture will be better protected against the effects of the sun and rain too. We’ve all seen the irreversible damage the sun can do to furnishings over time, bleaching them and causing leather to dry and crack.
Awning cover for the ultimate evening entertaining
We love to make the most of those long summer evenings. Sitting in the garden is the best way to melt away the stress after a hard day at work, and chilling under an awning is the perfect way to achieve this state of relaxation. So even if the temperatures aren’t unbearable, enjoying a barbecue or a few drinks in the garden with family and friends is the perfect end to a summer’s day.
The shelter an awning can provide allows you to spend longer in the garden, without the wind or a little drizzle ruining your evening plans. Throw in a couple of citronella candles and the mosquitoes and gnats won’t bother you either.
Awnings can save you energy
If your house is exposed to the full force of the sun during a long period of the day, it can absorb the heat, making it unbearably hot. The evening won’t be much better either, because the heat will be steadily released in the evenings, and thus, maintaining that hot and unpleasant environment. To address this issue, many people opt for an air conditioning unit to make their lives a little more bearable.
Unfortunately, air conditioning units can be rather expensive to run, and aren’t particularly environmentally friendly either, but a well-placed awning can protect your home from the full force of the sun. It will shade your windows and walls during the day, so the heat isn’t absorbed by your home, helping to keep a more comfortable temperature overnight. Regulating night time temperature is very important for a good night’s sleep, so an awning can even improve this aspect of your life.
An awning can complete your garden design
The British love their gardens and it doesn’t matter whether you want to spend hours keeping your garden to Chelsea Flower Show standards, or just want an outdoor space to chill, you’ll be able to find an awning that will complement the design of your garden or patio area.
With a massive choice of styles and colours available in our awnings, we are confident that you will find one that fits your lifestyle perfectly. We have modern steel framed awnings with modern and brightly coloured canopies, as well as more subdued and pastel shaded awnings that will create the perfect space for a spot of relaxation. The design of your awning is just as important as the decor you choose for the inside of your home, so you can be as imaginative or stylish as you want to be.
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Stevenage – A Modern Town
Stevenage is a modern and rapidly expanding town set in the county of Hertfordshire. The small villages that surrounded the new town have slowly been absorbed into the modern part of Stevenage in recent years.
Although Stevenage itself is considered a new town, there has been human habitation in the area for many years, with much evidence of Roman occupation being discovered in and around the town.
Pre-Conquest of Stevenage
The new town of Stevenage lies near the line of the Roman road from Verulamium, now the modern day St Albans, to Baldock. Some Romano-British remains were discovered during the building of Stevenage, and a large amount of about two thousand silver Roman coins were discovered in the Chells Manor area in 1986, whilst the area was having a house construction boom.
Other artefacts included a dodecahedron toy, in geometry, a dodecahedron is any polyhedron with twelve flat faces; fragments of amphorae clay jars for imported wine, bone hairpins, and ancient Greek pottery associated with wealthy families. Archaeological excavations have confirmed the existence of a small Roman farmstead, a malting kiln and a Celtic round house in the Chells area of Stevenage, and a cemetery containing twenty five cremations. The most striking evidence of activity from Roman times is still clear to see today in the form of Six Hills. These six tumuli by the side of the old Great North Road are thought to be the burial places of members of a well to do local family.
The first Saxon camp, a little to the east of the Roman sites, was in a clearing in the woods where the church, the manor house and the first village were later built. Settlements also sprang up in Chells, Broadwater and Shephall. Before the modern town of Stevenage was built. The Shephall part of Stevenage was a separate parish, and Broadwater was split between the parishes of Shephall and the nearby village of Knebworth.
The Middle Ages in Stevenage
According to the Domesday Book, in 1086 the Lord of the Manor was the Abbot of Westminster Abbey. The settlement that was later to become known as Stevenage, had moved down to the Great North Road. In 1281 it was granted a Royal Charter to hold a weekly market and annual fair, this is still held in the High Street of Stevenage to this day.
The earliest part of St Nicholas’s Church dates from the 12th century, but it was most likely to have been a site of worship much earlier than this. The list of parish priests is relatively complete from 1213 onwards. In around 1500 the church was improved with some decorative woodwork and the addition of a clerestory. In architecture, a clerestory is a high section of wall that contains windows above eye level. The purpose is to admit light, fresh air, or both.
North of Stevenage Old Town is Jack’s Hill, associated with the legendary archer Jack O’Legs of Weston. According to local folklore, Jack stole flour from the bakers of Baldock to feed the poor during a famine, much like the antics of the famed Robin Hood of Nottingham.
The remains of a medieval moated homestead in Whomerley Wood comprise an 80-yard-square trench almost five feet wide in parts. It was probably the home of Ralph de Homle. Pieces of Roman and later pottery have been found there.
The oldest surviving house in Stevenage is a gorgeous Tudor House in Letchmore Street. This piece of Tudor history was built sometime before 1500. During the 16th century it was a butcher’s shop, and from 1773 onwards it served as the Stevenage workhouse. The house then went on to be used as a school from 1835 until 1885. It was also the headquarters of a local Stevenage gas company from about 1885 until 1936. The Stevenage property was then converted into a private dwelling, and has remained so ever since.
Chells Manor has a medieval hall house located three miles from Stevenage Old Town. This was built in the 14th century for the Wake family on the foundations of a much older moated manor house and was mentioned in the Domesday Book. The site of the lost village of Chells was redeveloped during the extension of the Stevenage new town in the 1980s, and a bounty of Roman coins was discovered at this time. Today, the Chells area is a suburb of the modern town of Stevenage.