De-linking a link-detached house

LandyAndy

Won't you still be joined at the other side?

Rambosmum

Surely you'd still be attached on the other side? Unless you are buying the end of a row of link detached houses? So it wouldn't be detached, it'd be semi detached? Or end link detached?

To do it, you'd need to break a party wall agreement, get structural engineers and you'd be changing the plans of your neighbors house - you'd need to pay the cost of their legal work due to this to.

You would certainly spend more then 20k. And unless your dad is doing it himself, I suspect you'd have to pay laborers too.

Bad plan.

NaughtiusMaximus

andy1988 wrote: »

Detached houses on the same road are fetching an extra £20k but they're also of a different design although similar age. There must be other reasons why the link detached is £20k cheaper.

Are both styles of house equally sized both inside and in terms of garden space?

tbh as a buyer I wouldn't regard a property with the change you propose as being worth any more than an identical but still linked property on the same street, the loss of interior space balances out becoming fully detached. As a previous poster already mention, the main liviing space of a link detached wouldn't directly join a neighbouring property in either case.

ProDave

LandyAndy wrote: »

Won't you still be joined at the other side?

No a link detached is usually detached at one end, and only joined to it's neighbour at the other end by a garage.

PhilE

Unless your neighbors are regularly banging doors or playing loud bass music, your not going to notice much difference if you do this.

If you want to add value to your house, you'd probably be better of building an extension.

Cakeguts

ProDave wrote: »

No a link detached is usually detached at one end, and only joined to it's neighbour at the other end by a garage.

Not all of them are like this. Some of them are in rows where each house is joined to the next one by a garage. So a row of houses with garages all joined to the next house. These are also called link detached. A house where the two garages are joined would still be a semi. The point about link detached is that it is really a terrace because no house has a point at which you could walk down the side without going through another building.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-59706238.html Link detached.

Red-Squirrel_2

ProDave wrote: »

No a link detached is usually detached at one end, and only joined to it's neighbour at the other end by a garage.

Only sometimes, its just as likely that they are a long row all with garages as links. There's a row of 6 or 7 a bit further down my street.

Edit: should have read to the end of the thread, yeah what cakeguts said!

Slinky

Well it'll be interesting to see what happens with ours when it appears on the land registry stats. It's connected only via the garage to our neighbour. They then have a gap to the house next door, and then there's a pair again linked by garages. All the houses in the street are like this. However land registry shows some as being detached, and others as semis. Ours has not been sold since 1995 so will be it's first time it's acquired a land registry description.

silvercar

Ours has not been sold since 1995 so will be it's first time it's acquired a land registry description.

I wouldn't read too much into that. land Registry described my house as semi-detached until I asked what it was attached to, given that the houses on both sides were correctly described as detached. LR will give it whatever classification you tell it, until someone queries.

Cakeguts

Slinky wrote: »

Well it'll be interesting to see what happens with ours when it appears on the land registry stats. It's connected only via the garage to our neighbour. They then have a gap to the house next door, and then there's a pair again linked by garages. All the houses in the street are like this. However land registry shows some as being detached, and others as semis. Ours has not been sold since 1995 so will be it's first time it's acquired a land registry description.

Just don't try to sell it as detached because it isn't.