Neighbour built lean to attached to garage

Emmia

Sister_Sister said:

sheramber said:

Did the previous owner agree to it?

It looks like they have covered in the gap between two properties. 

They have covered the gap between the properties. It wasn’t mentioned in any of the documents we got when we bought the house and the current owners stated it was like that when they bought it.
Truly you can only really see it from their side it isn’t visible fully from our side.

By the current owners, do you mean your neighbours? How long have they lived there?

Were your vendors aware of this "building" ? I'd probably have a word along the lines of the fact you're not happy about it.

If you were to do some building works affecting the garage it would need to go.

FlorayG

I know loads of 'lean to buildings' like this they don't make any stress on the building they are attached to as long as that is a decent construction of brick. I would just let it go personally, but when you are more friendly just mention it, say you're sure they had permission for it but be kind enough please to speak with me before doing anything further.

Dustyevsky

From a structural POV, there's probably no problem, but I would want to know where the water which falls on the lean-to's roof is going. Is it being collected in a gutter of some sort, or is it simply dripping down your garage wall? The latter is unacceptable.

RAS

Agreed, if the garage is to the left of the photo, the white roof slopes down towards and tucks under the eaves. So water could be directed onto your garage wall.

Dustyevsky

Well, that's at least functional, assuming the pipe then discharges somewhere appropriate!

AskAsk

Dustyevsky said:

Well, that's at least functional, assuming the pipe then discharges somewhere appropriate!

it is going into the lower drain pipe, so should be fine.

i think with these historic things, you can't really do much about it and in most cases it doesn't do any harm.  in fact it covers the side of the garage from the elements, so in a way, it isn't a bad thing.

ThisIsWeird

Sister_Sister said:

It’s beautiful they’ve cut my drain pipe 

Whoa! Is their new roof going under your garage's overhand? Presumably trespassing on your land?

This is an interesting one, as usually the issue is to do with overhanging gutters - your neighb's is underhanging.

DO YOU HAVE LEG PROohnevermind.

Where does your fence lie in relation to your garage wall? And has the fence been like this from the house build?

NameUnavailable

ThisIsWeird said:

Sister_Sister said:

It’s beautiful they’ve cut my drain pipe 

Whoa! Is their new roof going under your garage's overhand? Presumably trespassing on your land?

This is an interesting one, as usually the issue is to do with overhanging gutters - your neighb's is underhanging.

DO YOU HAVE LEG PROohnevermind.

Where does your fence lie in relation to your garage wall? And has the fence been like this from the house build?

Or, is the OP's garage roof overhanging/trespassing on the neighbours land?..........

artyboy

NameUnavailable said:

ThisIsWeird said:

Sister_Sister said:

It’s beautiful they’ve cut my drain pipe 

Whoa! Is their new roof going under your garage's overhand? Presumably trespassing on your land?

This is an interesting one, as usually the issue is to do with overhanging gutters - your neighb's is underhanging.

DO YOU HAVE LEG PROohnevermind.

Where does your fence lie in relation to your garage wall? And has the fence been like this from the house build?

Or, is the OP's garage roof overhanging/trespassing on the neighbours land?..........

I know they are not always that precise, but the title plan suggested that the OP's garage was comfortably inside their boundary...

Sister_Sister

Thanks everyone the garage was built when the house was built in the original location. It is one the very edge of land I own. 

The lean to from Googlemaps and the land registry was built before either we or the neighbours moved in. 

We do have legal cover who I called yesterday but haven’t called me back. 

I don’t have contact details for my sellers but I’ve written to them hoping that Royal Mail redirect will get my letter to them to ask for more information.
My concern is will this damage my wall either through the weight or perhaps the pipe butchery might cause damp in my garage. 

They also have this structure which they have said is fragile attached to my wall which anything from my drainpipe has to fall on.
I also don’t know it through leaving this perhaps unchallenged it somehow gives them a right to continue to attach things to my wall. 

I haven’t got much clue where things like this are concerned