Terraced house with only main entrance

Bookworm225

RHemmings said:

donutandbeer said:

Many victorian terraced houses in London have no rear access. And many ex-council terraces house have rear access. We now live in one and I don’t think I can go back to having no rear access! 

I've never seen a terraced house without rear access. Including the one I lived in, in London. I'm not doubting that they exist, just commenting on my surprise. I don't think I'd want to live in such a house. But, I'd prefer to live in such a house than a flat in a huge faceless block. (Which I have also lived in, in London). 

as I said, they are very common in what is now administratively Barking & Dagenham
Becontree - Wikipedia

This was my aunt's house:

user1977

Might help if the OP could link to the property in question - I think people may be talking at cross-purposes.

km1500

If you google back-to-back terrace houses you will find the there are houses with no rear at all esp in Leeds and Bradford, also Birmingham.

katejo

I am in a terrace in East London (E17) and the houses in my road have no rear access. I keep the bins in the space at the front of the house behind my low garden wall. 

Bookworm225

km1500 said:

If you google back-to-back terrace houses you will find the there are houses with no rear at all esp in Leeds and Bradford, also Birmingham.

technically such properties therefore do not require "rear" access for maintenance since there is no rear.
the first house I ever looked at was like that, I could not run away fast enough.

rach_k

I live in a mid-terrace with a back garden but no access from the street to the garden, unless we ask the neighbours for access and remove a fence panel.  We've only done that once, when the fence itself was being replaced.

For everything else, people go through the front door.  The only time it's been a problem is when we wanted the gutters at the back cleaned and the layout of the doors in the kitchen meant the roofer couldn't get his ladders out of the back door due to the angles.  He just went over the top of the house instead.  We've since moved the back door so that's no longer an issue, but over the top is still an option for anybody willing!

Bins are kept at the front of the house.

cherry76

No space for bins in front, council issued plastic bags.

lincroft1710

My parents' former house (1940s semi) had a drive at the side giving access to rear garden. New owner extended the house across the drive, so no access from front to back other than through the house, Except house backed on to playing field and gate in back garden fence gave access to playing field,. The playing field car park was next door but one so when car park gates unlocked there was access to the rear garden.


Neighbour (1960s semi) has just had their attached garage converted to living accom so absolutely no access to rear other than going through the house.