North East facing Garden

lianne1978

Just wondered if anyone lives in a house with this garden facing aspect and if so, if it would get any sun!

Dukie_Boy

Hi we have a north facing garden
The first fifty feet or so this time year is usually in the shade ( the house blocks the sun)
Its good in the summer as Kio pool does not get to hot until mid afternoon
It' probably better for a conservatory thou, our friends have a South facing house with a Conservatory it touches over 100 degrees to hot for us to sit in it withsome sort of shade
Cheers
Dukie Boy

fbrj

lianne1978 wrote:

Just wondered if anyone lives in a house with this garden facing aspect and if so, if it would get any sun!

Some years ago we lived in a house with a NE facing rear garden - we vowed..never again!! What we found was that apart from at mid-summer and around around mid-day we never got any sun on the terrace....and certainly not in the evening. You could of course get round this...if your garden is big enough for you to sit well out of the shadows created by the house.

We now have a house, where the rear garden faces almost due west....and enjoy the summer sun until it sets!

Pinklepurr

I've lived in a house with a NE facing garden but the back of the house was mostly in shadow and it was only the far end of the garden that got any sun. I guess a NE facing garden would be OK if your garden is long and you only have a 2 storey house, if the garden was like a postage stamp then don't expect much sun. Our garden now faces SW and it is a complete suntrap, almost too hot on a summers day!

Debt_Free_Chick

I have a NW facing garden and at least half of it (the end opposite the house) gets sun. Also, we are not overlooked, so we get late afternoon/early evening sun, in the summer. We wouldn't, of course, get this if there were another house to left of us.

You need to consider the proximity of other buildings and possibly trees either side of the garden, as well.

lianne1978

The garden is long not sure of dimensions yet going to look at it tomorrow but from the pictures and had drive by, it is an end one of four (the houses are to the left in the garden) and then a lane before the next lot of houses.

As long as it gets some sun I wouldn't be too bothered!

courtjester

Depends on where in the Uk the property is - if it's in the south, then during the summer the sun is more or less overhead so it doesn't matter which way the garden faces.

Our garden faces East - we have the sun until 2-3pm in the afternoon (at which point we can decamp to the front garden if we want to sit in it later, but by that time the conservatory is a welcome cool place. Come evening, 7-8pm, the sun comes back around the house and we get a second shot on the corner patio.

Much depends on location, size of garden and position of trees /other houses. It's importance to choice of property is perhaps rather over-emphasised as there are ways and ways to make the most of any property.