South West Facing Garden - House at end of garden!

charlotten88

We're looking at buying a house with a South Westerly facing garden (more west than South!).

At the end of our 8.5 metre garden is a single drive ways width, then a 2 story house.

I'm concerned that said house could block the afternoon sun to my garden, for which we are obviously paying a premium!

Could any one please assist? We can physically go and see as the house is only just a shell so far!

Attached below a snip of the map. North is at the top and we're looking at plot 25. I'd appreciate a speedy response as we were due to pay the reservation fee today, just this has been playing on my mind!

davilown

afternoon sun afternoon sun will be fine - evening won’t be

AdrianC

charlotten88 said:

We're looking at buying a house with a South Westerly facing garden (more west than South!).

At the end of our 8.5 metre garden is a single drive ways width, then a 2 story house.

I'm concerned that said house could block the afternoon sun to my garden, for which we are obviously paying a premium!

Could any one please assist? We can physically go and see as the house is only just a shell so far!

Attached below a snip of the map. North is at the top and we're looking at plot 25. I'd appreciate a speedy response as we were due to pay the reservation fee today, just this has been playing on my mind!

I'd say you'll be fine.

In fact, I'd say most of your shading will be from the two garages, especially in winter.

RelievedSheff

You will have a part of your garden next to the garages that never gets any sun.

Irishpearce26

No dramas here, in fact you will have areas of your garden that get a lot of sun and some that will have a nice shaded area. I have a north facing garden, it gets plenty of sun and our main patio has shade for our toddler to stay cool in. Our south facing garden was horrible in the summer as there was no shade at all.

Doozergirl

Your sunniest spot will be a patio directly outside the house.  

My old house was like your neighbours.  We had 9.5 metres of garden and would lose the sun from where the back of your house is at 6pm (on average) in the main part of spring/summer.   If you've got an extra metre or so, including the parking then you'll get a bit longer. 

When we hit equinox, you'll end up getting the very late sun back in that area!  

I'm not sure why you're paying a premium for any element of a south facing garden. It's pretty much west.  The garages will provide some welcome shade at parts of the day.  

ProDave

Hopefully being the end wall, there won't be any windows in the end of No 26 to overlook you, or at worse just a landing window.

daivid

charlotten88 said:

I'm concerned that said house could block the afternoon sun to my garden, for which we are obviously paying a premium!

How much more are you paying?

UnderOffer

We are living in an almost identical layout to your diagram above. With us in plot 25, however the neighbours double garage is the other side of plot 26, so their house is at bottom of our fence/garden. We are West facing and I find the sun is not blocked until after 4pm. I love the west facing garden it really does get maximum sun and makes the area very usable. There is definitely no shadow areas and the lawn and plants flourish. 

Runningmad

There is an app I can't remember the exact name but it's something like find my shadow, you upload your plan then it shows you the shaddow through out the day. It's very clever. 

Slithery

Runningmad said:

There is an app I can't remember the exact name but it's something like find my shadow, you upload your plan then it shows you the shaddow through out the day. It's very clever. 

http://suncalc.net/