Will this house get sun?

ibizafan_2

I must confess to liking west facing gardens best. It's nice to get the sun on the front of the house first thing, and then the sun all day in the back garden. I've noticed that estate agents only seem to mention south or west facing gardens as an asset.

hazyjo

ibizafan wrote: »

I must confess to liking west facing gardens best. It's nice to get the sun on the front of the house first thing, and then the sun all day in the back garden. I've noticed that estate agents only seem to mention south or west facing gardens as an asset.

I remember quite a few articles saying the same last year - west is actually best!


I think we've had it drummed into us over so many years that we simply must have a south facing garden that people often don't question it. The amount of couples on Location Location Location that say south facing is essential, even though they have kids or pets who'll burn out there in blazing sunshine, or both work full time and have busy lives and prob not much time (or desire) for gardening!


Jx

Cakeguts

On a sunny day visit the property and see is the sun is on the front of the house or if the front is in shadow. If the front is in shadow then the back garden isn't. If the front of the house is all lit up and attractive looking then the sun is going to be in the front. Houses that look attractive from the front are the ones that don't attract me because for me they face the wrong direction. I would be looking for one where the front of the house was in shadow.

HiToAll

did you really want to link to all your photobucket photos?

always_sunny

Miss_$ wrote: »

Do you think the garden will get sun during the day?

Not if it's cloudy!

AlexMac

Ye gods; don't they teach map-reading and finding north by the sun in the Girl Guides these days?

Look at Google earth; which, by default is oriented with north at the top...
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Hixon+Pet+Supplies/@52.8296799,-2.0002528,177m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1

- Then look at the long shadows being cast from the west which means its lateish in the afternoon; (the sun sets in the west which is to the left; the shadows are casting to the right...)

- Then look at the trees in full leaf, field and garden greenery; which means its early summer...

- perm that information, and presuming your house is the one with the scruffy back lawn, next to the one with the greener lawn and trampoline, that eans, as somone says above...

- that you car, parked out front, will get sun all day. In midsummer, at midday, when the sun is highest, most of your garden, the back two thirds, will be in full sun (unless its rains!); with shading on the left but sun in the back right (as on this google photo) in the evening. There will be a bit more shadow/less sun in winter, but the rear end of the garden will usually get sun all year (unless its snowing!)

And as for Scottish Ellie

ellie27 wrote: »

... We are having some fine weather just now, don't know what Storm Doris will bring us tomorrow though!

... would that be "a wee deoch an doris"
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/deoch_an_doris

Buy the house. Think yourself lucky. We have a south facing rear courtyard but we only get sun in high summer as there are 4 storey mansions 15 metres away

Miss_$

Thanks everyone for your replies.

The house in question is the 3rd on the right with the garage conversion and extension.

The house it's self is perfect it's just in the sodding wrong place facing the wrong way!!

stator

You have the same alignment as me, but my garden is longer.
For the winter months you'll get virtually no direct sunlight.
Spring/Summer will be a mixed bag, some hours of sunlight.
Summer months will be fine.

If you're a keen gardener I would avoid it.
If you just want a lawn and a few shrubs then it'll be fine, but you'll have to look after it properly in winter or you'll get moss etc