Garden sizes

welshwizard1927

We've seen this great old house, full of character but lacking in a big garden.

Using the room measurements, we've determined that the garden size is probably around 14ft x 25ft. Big enough for a BBQ and table and chairs, but not kids playthings.

As a large three bedroomed house, what are people's thoughts on potential resale? I take the view that garden is something used infrequently, and as long as there is some space, it is better than nothing. OH takes the view that we should have big garden for future kids. The way their building modern housing makes me think that big gardens are becoming less and less common - rather a big house with a small garden than a small house with a big garden.

By the way, huge field and children's play park directly opposite house.

What are people's thoughts?

phill99

Modern homes aren't built with large gardens. More of a token piece of turf! The resale is academic. If you like it, buy it. Somebody else will like it too and buy it.

G_M

welshwizard1927 wrote: »

By the way, huge field and children's play park directly opposite house.

What are people's thoughts?

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Paully232000

Personally, I would expect a large three bedroom house to have a fairly big garden, and would want space for children to be able to play in, on top of an area for seating/BBQ etc. But thats just me, and would put me off a house.

Also we are looking at houses at the moment and even though had kids, we discounted a otherwise nice house because it had a kids playpark right across the road. I have seen in other areas gangs of kids hanging about at night on childrens playparks and just put me off this particular house.

welshwizard1927

Indeed! When I say directly opposite, that's probably a bit of an exaggeration. It's a huge field (cannot build on it as protected park) - the children's park bit is set towards the back. Not visible from the house in any way!

The reason the garden is small is because the back half of it was converted into a parking area.

phoebe1989seb

Mmmmmm......our last house originally had a large garden - with orchard and pool, you get the picture - but over the years most was sold off for new builds, till by the time we bought in 2007 it had wrap-around gardens plus driveway on four sides none of which amounted to a depth of more than 20-25'. We bought just as DS had gone off to uni, so no young kids needing space for their stuff and whilst we'd downsized from a house with a good size (for a city) garden, we were won over by the amazing character of the house and that was the most important factor for us

Now this wasn't a huge house by any means, but overall it was *family sized* with 5 potential bedrooms (three of which were located on the g/floor) so when we came to sell in 2011 we guessed we may have interest from people with young kids. We were right - our buyers had three kids, including a new baby plus two large dogs. They too fell in love with the house and whilst they felt the gardens were a bit small, they decided they could make them work, by removing a large pond put in by our predecessors and clearing much of the shrubbery and other planting to create larger expanses of lawn.

IMHO, if the house *feels right* and you don't think you'll outgrow it or the garden, you'll probably be able to make it work...........

That said, when we sold up and bought our current house one of the main points on our wish list was a huge garden - and in fact it was the garden rather than the house that led us to a) view and b) buy it

If you have to compromise on something - and most of us do (ours was the proximity of a relatively busy rural road) - you will know if you can live with a small (but useable) outside space

I_have_spoken

My enclosed rear garden is 10m wide by 9m deep, about 2.5m of which is the patio. That feels about right for a family 3-bed on an estate

pimento

It would depend what direction the garden faced.

Paully232000

welshwizard1927 wrote: »

Indeed! When I say directly opposite, that's probably a bit of an exaggeration. It's a huge field (cannot build on it as protected park) - the children's park bit is set towards the back. Not visible from the house in any way!

The reason the garden is small is because the back half of it was converted into a parking area.

The house I looked at, it was much closer than that.

If it is perfect in every other way could you not convert it back into a garden if thats what you want? or would the parking area be of use to you

Fraise

A good sized garden specially south facing is always a selling point.

Strapped

Can you afford a similar sized house in similar location but with a bigger garden? If not, then something has to give. We sacrificed a big garden to live in this village and tbh I do miss my nice big, flat garden at times. But we make do!