Dividing fence (or other) between terrace houses

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I own a BTL Victorian terraced house and I need to replace the unsafe boundary wall between me and the neighbour.

The wall starts at the back of the house and goes straight up the garden to the rear fence/gate. A path runs right along my side of the boundary, only a few feet wide at the back door and alongside the kitchen extension - then along side the wider garden with grass.

I assume it would be more expensive to rebuild a wall than use fence panels? As its BTL I dont want to spend a fortune, but it has to look good. Just not sure panels would look right, too high and too enclosing? What other options please?

I've just had exactly this done - unsafe wall came down, & quote for brick replacement was £1500 (because of foundations etc). Had a 4ft high panel fence put in instead; £400 & done in about 2 hours...

TBH I went for the cheap option because I'm selling & just needed to repair the boundary, but now it's up, it looks perfectly ok.

Wow, that much for a wall! Seems fence is the way to go.

I was looking at a wall (admittedly long and 7' high) for a house we didn't buy in the end. Quotes were £8-12k. Walls area structures in their own right needing the right design, width, foundations etc. Look better than fences but prob not your priority given BTL.

Victorian garden walls (and indeed small houses) often had negligible foundations and were built with lime mortar, so not very stable.

You need not have woven or lapped panels. You can get featheredge panels, or have a featheredge fence made on-site with arris rails, which is in keeping with a Victorian house.

If you like dark brown fence stain (which is in keeping with an old house) you can if you wish use concrete posts and gravel boards, with dark brown masonry paint to make them blend in.

wooden fence posts set in concrete are extremely distressing and arduous when they rot and snap off, which is why I only have concrete posts or, at a pinch, concrete spurs with wooden posts bolted to them but not in contact with the ground.

Thanks PJohn, dark stain would look really good.

here's one I did earlier. featheredge boards, concrete posts and gravel boards with Dulux Bitter Chocolate masonry paint.