Cluster house with strange garden arrangement.

Dunroamin

Apologies for my ignorance but what's a cluster house?

SG27

Dunroamin wrote: »

Apologies for my ignorance but what's a cluster house?

It's a normal standard detached house, which due to ridiculously high house prices and lack of building new homes has been split into four seperate small dwellings. They actually build them like this now!

Dunroamin

SG27 wrote: »

It's a normal standard detached house, which due to ridiculously high house prices and lack of building new homes has been split into four seperate small dwellings. They actually build them like this now!

So, they've rebranded back to back houses then?

Errata

SG27 wrote: »

It's a normal standard detached house, which due to ridiculously high house prices and lack of building new homes has been split into four seperate small dwellings. They actually build them like this now!

Cluster houses aren't new, builders have been building them for the last 3-4 decades. In some areas they're also known as quarter homes. They can be perfect for one or two people and there's no chance of upstairs neighbours noise.

Errata

Dunroamin wrote: »

So, they've renbranded back to back houses then?

Pretty much

Dunroamin

Errata wrote: »

Pretty much

Thought so. Not really a particularly new idea then as the Victorians built so many of them!

Blackpool_Saver

I am still lost to be honest, is it one house in 4 flats on one level, with a garden that goes around a corner of it, and that is the one in question?

Edited to add, just looked at some Google pictures and it looks like a mews/terrace, but not always in a straight line, am I getting nearer? anyway, I would still want my garden adjacent to my home...

Edinburgh65

I live in a maisonette upper flat, with a similarly strangely placed garden. I can't see it from my home, and my ex and I lived here for a year before we actually found out that we owned it, when a neighbour came to ask if we knew about it, because they had to build a fence to hide it. The garden wasn't shown to us at the time of viewing the flat, and we just assumed that we shared the back and front gardens which surrounded the lower flat.

Personally speaking, had we known about the strange garden placement, we would not have bought the flat, and despite the fact that I have now lived here for 27 years, the garden has always felt like a huge millstone round my neck. I would rather have no garden at all.

It depends on how much use your daughter is going to get out of the garden. If she will enjoy gardening, and doesn't mind the inconvenience, then it might be okay, but if she is not going to be somone who really enjoys gardening, then it might just be an irritation for her.

I need to use about three extension cables when I need to cut my grass, and after hours of hard work, I don't get the pleasure of viewing a tidy garden because I cannot see it from my flat. I would also not dry clothes in the garden, as they are not in sight. On the rare sunny days on which I want to relax in the garden, it feels like a trip to the seaside, I have to pack a bag of things to take round there with me because I can't just pop back into my flat to get things. All of my refuse bins are also round there, which is a continual pain.

SG27

Dunroamin wrote: »

So, they've rebranded back to back houses then?

Think more corner to corner. One house split into four corners. The ones round here generally don't have gardens. Sometimes an all round communal thing.