Is it Correct to Class this House as Detached?

[Deleted User]

I'm still going with end terrace house.

I don't think it matters if it is only the ground floor that is linked or even if the link is via a garage. The buildings are joined together. And there are three of them joined together.

Permitted Development for householders Technical Guidance

“Terrace house” - means a dwelling house situated in a row of 3 or more dwelling houses used or designed for use as single dwellings, where (a) it shares a party wall with, or has a main wall adjoining the main wall of, the dwelling house on either side or (b) if it is at the end of a row, it shares a party wall with or has a main wall adjoining the main wall of a dwelling house which fulfils the requirements of sub paragraph (a)

Party wall act 1966 explanatory booklet
A wall is a “party wall” if it stands astride the boundary of land belonging to two (or more) different owners. A wall is also a “party wall” if it stands wholly on one owner’s land, but is used by two (or more) owners to separate their buildings 

Main wall I think is exterior wall of building.

"The party wall of link-detached houses may come under the Party Wall Act 1996 with any work involving a party wall agreement."
"The Planning Inspectorate has previously said that a link-detached house counts as a terraced house (for permitted development rights)." 
What is a Link-Detached House? (propertyinvestmentsuk.co.uk)

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As far as home insurance goes it seems to vary with company. Some classify linked detached as detached. So if you buy it you may want to check with your house insurance company what they define it as.

Gavin83

I’ve lived in a truly detached house (can walk all the way around it), a semi and a link detached. In terms of day to day living a link detached is far closer to a detached house than it is a semi. 

Unless I really had no other choice I wouldn’t choose to live in a semi again. I wouldn’t have the same issue with a link detached.

deano2099

This thread has made me question what my own house is!
It's a property on the corner of a close. Originally this property and the property on the adjacent corner were fully detached, but each had a double garage, detached from the properties, but attached to each other.
The previous owner has built an extension where the gap between the property and the garage was, so the extension bridges the gap between the house and the double garage, sharing the garage wall. There's no internal door between the extension and the garage. 
But then the garage is attached to their garage, so technically the house is also, via our garage. So technically it's probably a linked-detached, but have never thought of it as anything but detached.

RelievedSheff

If the garage is not attached to your property then your property is detached.

Our garage is "semi detached" with next doors garage for want of a better description, but the houses are completely detached.

moneysaver1978

Gavin83 said:

I’ve lived in a truly detached house (can walk all the way around it), a semi and a link detached. In terms of day to day living a link detached is far closer to a detached house than it is a semi. 

Unless I really had no other choice I wouldn’t choose to live in a semi again. I wouldn’t have the same issue with a link detached.

What was wrong with living in a semi?

RelievedSheff

moneysaver1978 said:

Gavin83 said:

I’ve lived in a truly detached house (can walk all the way around it), a semi and a link detached. In terms of day to day living a link detached is far closer to a detached house than it is a semi. 

Unless I really had no other choice I wouldn’t choose to live in a semi again. I wouldn’t have the same issue with a link detached.

What was wrong with living in a semi?

Neighbours in too close proximity. 

We have lived in semi's prior to moving to our current detached house and we will never move back to an attached property again.

Even with the most considerate Neighbours there is still a degree of noise that finds its way across a party wall.

Being detached and not having that noise or having to be aware of the noise you are generating is a different ball game altogether.

It is difficult to explain to someone who has never lived in a detached property. But it is a completely different atmosphere. 

housebuyer143

RelievedSheff said:

moneysaver1978 said:

Gavin83 said:

I’ve lived in a truly detached house (can walk all the way around it), a semi and a link detached. In terms of day to day living a link detached is far closer to a detached house than it is a semi. 

Unless I really had no other choice I wouldn’t choose to live in a semi again. I wouldn’t have the same issue with a link detached.

What was wrong with living in a semi?

Neighbours in too close proximity. 

We have lived in semi's prior to moving to our current detached house and we will never move back to an attached property again.

Even with the most considerate Neighbours there is still a degree of noise that finds its way across a party wall.

Being detached and not having that noise or having to be aware of the noise you are generating is a different ball game altogether.

It is difficult to explain to someone who has never lived in a detached property. But it is a completely different atmosphere. 

Agreed! I wouldn't live in a semi again. You have no idea who will live next to you and they can ruin your time at home if they are loud. Even if they are not you are always conscious about the noise you are making. 

In a detached you just feel completely relaxed and it makes no difference if the neighbours are loud as you just close the windows and you don't hear it. No barking dogs through the walls, music, TV, yelling. Bliss!

[Deleted User]

The state of housing in Britain today. Endless rows of crappy terraces. Most of the new builds are terrace or semis. Detached commands a big price premium.

Nothing anyone can do about it.

Titus_Wadd

From my limited personal experience - I had always lived happily in terraced and semi-detached* houses but moved into a large detached 5 years ago.  The next house I buy, probably sooner than we had planned to move again, I'd rank avoiding shared drives, rights of way and private roads etc. way ahead of finding another detached house.  Sometimes absolute tw@ts live in exclusive areas, in detached homes on large plots.  Wherever you think of buying speak to all the neighbours before you exchange contracts.  I'd also view the street scene at different times of day and at weekends to identify any potential flash-points.  Even if you make all these checks and more, it won't stop an odd-ball moving in after you and throwing your hopes for a quiet life down the toilet. 

I appreciate my usually optimistic outlook has darkened in this post, normal service will be resumed shortly. 

* my personal favourite happy semi-detached home was where the staircases and front doors were side by side; it means only the kitchen and the boxroom (tiny bedrooms) upstairs shared a wall.  There, my cup-half-full equilibrim is restored!