Would you buy a house where the garden was not directly attached?

[ButterdickCumberscotch]

Title says it all really, love the house but the garden is a plot of land not connected to the house. I am wondering whether this is a bad idea as I would be worried about not being able to see the kids when they are in the garden.

No garden attached just a communal area. Thanks everyone

yes. because its a common arrangement in this village. Old long houses divvied up into 4 or 5 cottages with the plot behind divvied up I to gardens reached by a track along one side of the plot with a path behind all the cottages from the track.

"No. Might as well buy a house with no garden near a park."

This. A house with no garden wouldn't bother me but I'd be riled by paying for one that was a pain to access.

I do like Laurie's idea though. If I did buy it, I'd go with a secret garden type theme.

Install a zip line

I had family in Somerset, where there was a local practice of having the garden over the road from your front door, with a small yard behind the house. Not bad if you are in a rural lane with no traffic. People tend to sell them for redevelopment if they can.

I did once have a house with a back garden and another down the back alley. Like a group of small allotments. You need a shed, and people end up not going there. Out of sight so very prone to theft and squatters, criminal kids, and neglected weedy plots.

On balance I definitely prefer the garden to be attached to the house, otherwise you won't use it, and it is not much use for small children or pets. If it was hugely cheap and I still believed (wrongly) I would bother going there and sitting in a deckchair on a sunny day, I might consider it. You won't use it.

No. We didn't offer on a dream house because you couldn't see the garden from any rooms of the house. It was actually attached, just through a little outside corridor.

I wouldn't automatically write it off.

If it meant I could have a better house and/or larger garden than I could otherwise afford I might go for it, especially if there was a bit of outside space near the house, like a small terrace.

TBH we bought our house so the children could benefit from the garden and it was great when they were aged say 2-8 but that time passes quickly and after then I think a larger garden that was a bit away from the house might actually have been used by them more - more of an adventure. So it depends how old your Dc are.

For me, If I had somewhere near the house to sit out but it was across the road to tend the veg plot, that would be fine. I'd have a shed where no-one could find me...

but, I'm thinking of something very rural. If you have neighbours or people passing on the way home from the pub I think the issues or theft etc PigletJohn raises are very valid.