How much difference does being detached make?

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Just that really. I’ve always assumed that general noise is much lower, but what about garden noise etc? Does the fact you’re further apart help with the garden as well? I appreciate there is a large variable in terms of who you’re living alongside. But just curious if people have felt it’s worth it?

Ps I couldn’t find a thread asking similar but do point me in that direction if it’s been done, thank you.

Thanks everyone. We may move again in the future, so it’s been interesting to get a different perspective as I’ve never lived in a detached house before.

The detached house I grew up in is very different to the detached new home I'm buying. The one I grew up in is what I would say is 'proper' detached as it was in relative seclusion - garden felt detached too. The detached I'm buying on a new build development is very different - some of the detached houses on the development even share a drive with neighbours and have a semi-detached garage (personally, I think that if it's advertised as detached then it should include the garage and drive way being detached too).

Benefits of detached IMO:

• indoors there's no noise from others.
• it's all yours.
• no sharing and potential for disagreements with neighbours (hence why I disagree with shared drives for homes advertised as detached - because if there's a problem then you have a neighbour to account for and you still share the responsibility e.g. re-doing the drive etc.).
• I think a detached home has better re-sale chances because people often look to building up to having a detached home.

In most cases, the garden won't be much different as you'll still share a fence or tree or wall etc.

Depends on how detached the house is !

If it is a modern estate detached, then you almost may as well be living in a semi. Builders like to separate houses and call them 'detached' to chuck the price up, but often there is about 5ft between the wall of the house and neighbouring house. But hey, so long as the suburbanites can purr that they live in a detached property, then so it continues!

In all seriousness, I think it makes a big difference. If you live in an old house that is attached with thick stone walls then it's not so bad, but living in a 20th century attached house can be noisy.

I live in a 1820s terraced and although we occasionally hear our neighbours I love the fact that there is always someone about to say hello to and if there ever was a problem I could (and have on many occasions) knock at any one of the doors on our street and they will help me. I look at detached and think that they must be a bit lonely, especially at the moment.

We recently moved to a detached and I love it. Massive difference. I felt anxious about my kids making too much noise because I knew the walls were thin because I could hear my neighbours cough or Hoover and neighbours were unfriendly. My kids are noisy and argue like cat and dog and both woke in the night until age 2. I felt irritated when they hoovered every Sunday at 7-8am and hammered next to my daughters room often at 9pm. So much anxiety has gone now since then.

Agree with the majority on here, being detached is fab inside but gardens not much difference!

We lived in a 1930s semi before and it was pretty solid but still could hear nest door sometimes, we are in a new build detached now that's not nearly as solid so I dread to think what it would be like if we were a semi

I love being detached, if we ever moved I wouldn't consider any attached again. I lived in a flat, a few terraces and a semi and the detached is soooo much nicer. We're not remote as we're on a street of detached houses, but inside the house is so quiet (except when DC are noisy. Which is a lot, but at least I don't have to worry about keeping them quiet).

@Tearsofthemushroom - detached houses are often on a street of them, so they do have neighbours. No reason to feel lonely really...

Living in a detached house has made the world of difference for us. We don't hear a peep out of our neighbours, except if they are mowing their lawn. That being said, it's mostly older conservative folk where we live and so I doubt we'd be disturbed much even if we were in adjoining houses. It is nice not to worry about throwing a load of laundry on late at night or playing music too loudly. We also have a young baby now and I'm glad that we don't need to concern ourselves with whether we are keeping people up at night when she wakes up for feeds etc. Once less thing to worry about. Writing this I realise that I often take the peace and quiet for granted now, which is unbelievable considering the noise disturbances I've struggled with in city centre flats in the past.

On a more superficial level, I hate mis-matched semi-detached properties, where they have different window styles to each other or one has added a porch and the other hasn't.

I am a big fan of symmetry so this sort of stuff would make me bristle

I like my detached house as I can sing and hopefull my neighbours cannot hear me.

I grew up in a terraced house and heard very little from next door, we now also live in a terraced house and the noise is minimal! We occasionally hear noise but that’s on a rare occasion!

Large detached here on a street with very large gardens.

Can’t hear neighbours in the house but can hear them outside despite both having big gardens. Not a problem though as it’s just normal family noise.

Can hear people across the road’s woofing dog in our house though, so annoying.

Love being detached.
We’re in the corner of a cul de sac too with a fan shaped garden so there is a reasonable distance to where neighbours sit too so we benefit there, we can’t hear one another talking.

I will always choose detached if I can, but noise irritates me a lot!

Thank you for replying everyone, I’ve enjoyed wasting some time on Rightmove looking at local detached houses!

We bought a terraced house years ago, the neighbours on one side were drug dealers, noisy. It was the worst few years living there. Eventually sold and wanted a detached house after this. Managed to find one at a good price. Never looked back