How much light would this house have in the garden? Am I mad for considering?

[NoeyDoey]

Hi all,

Considering buying this house and doing an extension out the back. How much light would the garden and the back room get (making one kitchen and dining room across the back).

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/100636022#/

Waited a long time to buy a house and don't want to much it up!

Thank you sooooo much!

www.google.com/maps/place/330+Bedonwell+Rd,+Belvedere+DA17+5PE/@51.4787147,0.137525,63m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x47d8af06d7d7da37:0x36893cc93f60b4b!8m2!3d51.4786654!4d0.1378348

You won't have any sun to enjoy through summer though as it seems the trees already shade half the garden so if you do an extension on the other half you won't have much sun? Unless it won't bother you.

one kitchen and dining room across the back
You could think more laterally than that. Previous owners have put the patio at an angle to catch the light so can you not do similar for your extension? You have a huge garden so you have room to do something different eg back it against that little side-road boundary on the right (which would also increase privacy).

Who do the trees belong to? Can you chop them? Your lawn looks much drier than others around you.

My first reaction was "what's the problem" - it's so much more open than my shaded garden. But you mean large trees?

Looking at the google map, they're to the NE and N, so will be casting shade like that in the morning. As the sun moves round towards the south, the shadows will be getting shorter and being cast more on the neighbour at the bottom of the garden.

What will cast shade for most of the day will be the house.

However, looking at the photos, the shadows of the fence are quite short, so the sun is quite high in the sky, and therefore to the SE rather than the E, so it doesn't really tie up. I'm quite puzzled.

I note that you're in Kent. I'm in the frozen north, and I can remember in our last summer, which I think was 2006, where we got to about 30deg, I was so glad of my cool shady garden.

Oh, and you must assume the trees will continue to grow. There's no horticulture reason to prune them, and you can't move into a house knowing that your neighbour has trees, and then turn round and demand that he lops them, it's not fair to him, and it will cause ill-feeling if he refuses.

The garden looks big enough to still have sunny areas. As this is in the London area, I would be glad to have some shade in the garden. Summers nowadays in gardens without trees are much too hot.

The roses by the patio are doing well, which suggests that that area gets 4 hours of sun a day. You can grow roses in shade, but they go leggy and miserable. I would guess the blue bench gets full sun in the morning. The rooms at the back of the house probably never get direct sun though, or only late in the afternoon in the height of summer.