Is it Correct to Class this House as Detached?

BungalowBel

Titus_Wadd said:

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!

Our bungalow is only joined at the bedrooms and I don't think that people in their 70s (us and the neighbours) make much noise in their bedrooms!

Martin_the_Unjust

BungalowBel said:

Titus_Wadd said:

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!

Our bungalow is only joined at the bedrooms and I don't think that people in their 70s (us and the neighbours) make much noise in their bedrooms!

Until their hearing goes and they decide they like to listen to the radio while laying in bed early in the morning or last thing at night!

housebuyer143

Martin_the_Unjust said:

BungalowBel said:

Titus_Wadd said:

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!

Our bungalow is only joined at the bedrooms and I don't think that people in their 70s (us and the neighbours) make much noise in their bedrooms!

Until their hearing goes and they decide they like to listen to the radio while laying in bed early in the morning or last thing at night!

This is what forced my sister to abandon her rental after 6 weeks. Old lady would turn TV up blaring on the party bedroom wall and then fall asleep. She could hear it until 3am every night and couldn't sleep. She said it was worse than when she lived next to partiers as it was every night, not just the weekend

badger09

BungalowBel said:

Titus_Wadd said:

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!

Our bungalow is only joined at the bedrooms and I don't think that people in their 70s (us and the neighbours) make much noise in their bedrooms!

You obviously haven’t heard my OH snoring😏

grumbler

Guess what... This house is 'link-detached' according to two EAs (one is Hortons)


 
However,  this one is 'semi' (Newton Fallowell)

Titus_Wadd

Anyone else still sniggering at the word "semi"? 

Just Beavis, Butt-head and my husband then?

Gavin83

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?

It's already been covered but noise. Every semi/end of terrace I've lived in has involved some neighbour noise. In some ways the pressure to control my own noise is worse. The last semi I lived in was next door to a very middle class family. The wife even had very famous relatives. She spent pretty much all day shouting at her kids and we could easily make out every word. Never again.

Titus_Wadd said:

I'd rank avoiding shared drives, rights of way and private roads etc. way ahead of finding another detached house.

See I've lived with a shared drive (well shared access to our own drives) and it was no problem at all. It wouldn't be my preference but it wouldn't be a deal breaker for me either.

Private roads are another matter. The biggest issue here is the maintenance. I've never seen a private road (that isn't new) which isn't in a state of major disrepair. There's a reason for this.

peter3hg

grumbler said:

Guess what... This house is 'link-detached' according to two EAs (one is Hortons)


 
However,  this one is 'semi' (Newton Fallowell)

I don't see how that can be anything other than end of terrace. The orientation seems to mean they don't really have a private back garden, although there might be a small private side garden not in shot.

RelievedSheff

peter3hg said:

grumbler said:

Guess what... This house is 'link-detached' according to two EAs (one is Hortons)


 
However,  this one is 'semi' (Newton Fallowell)

I don't see how that can be anything other than end of terrace. The orientation seems to mean they don't really have a private back garden, although there might be a small private side garden not in shot.

The back garden is on the side.

Our house is similar although it's detached.

silvercar

RelievedSheff said:

peter3hg said:

grumbler said:

Guess what... This house is 'link-detached' according to two EAs (one is Hortons)


 
However,  this one is 'semi' (Newton Fallowell)

I don't see how that can be anything other than end of terrace. The orientation seems to mean they don't really have a private back garden, although there might be a small private side garden not in shot.

The back garden is on the side.

Our house is similar although it's detached.

Either the back garden is actually a side garden or the back garden is a back garden and the front door is on the side.