Trees Shading a South Facing Garden?

[AnythingPecan]

We've just viewed a house and considering putting in an offer to buy a 4 bed north north east facing semi at the bottom of a cul de sac.

I'm resolved with the fact that the front gets little light. The front lounge is single aspect. This obviously means the garden is SSW but because the garden is not long and there are lots of tall trees behind the house which appear on Google Maps to cast significant shadows to the garden in the summer, I'm a bit worried. I'm not too fussed about the garden being in partial shade as I'm not a fan of being cooked all day. But I'm more concerned with lack of light entering the house and making it feel dark and depressing especially at this time of the year when the sun is high and the trees start growing their leaves and becoming more dense.

The large landing window appears to catch the westerly sun and flood the first floor / staircase with light and the kitchen at the back of the property has large windows too.

Any similar experiences? Would that put you off offering?

Yes it would put me off.

We had a south west facing garden and there was no shade at all. It got pretty unbearable on long hot sunny days and evenings. Our bedroom was at the back and it would heat up all day and was horrible for sleeping. This was 20 years ago before the summers were longer and hotter. Sounds like yours might be a little too much the other way - but personally I'd much rather have too much shade than too much sun. Half the year is cloudy and/or dark anyway.

We have a SSW facing garden, approximately 11m long, with some trees at the bottom. The biggest one probably comes to the height of the roof eaves and the smaller ones are perhaps to the height of the first floor window ledges. The bottom quarter of our garden is always shady, but we still get plenty of sun. The row of leylandii to the west were more of a problem with light tbh, until we chopped them well down.

It wouldn't necessarily put me off. Our north facing lounge gets plenty of light, although our hallway is a tad dark, more due to the layout than anything else.

We have a south facing garden with a small woodland at the back. The end of the garden is in almost constant shade. The house end of the garden gets light most of the day. But, the garden is about 100ft long and the house is elevated above the ground level at the end of the garden by about 12 feet.

Ours is the same situation. Back garden is quite short (20ft?) and NNE. There is a large row of oak trees directly to the east of us, so we get dappled sunlight in the morning, however as the westerly view isn't blocked we get very good sun all afternoon until about 7pm in the back, but never ever on the back of the house if that makes sense. I was worried about it when we bought but actually it works really well for us.

The front gets full sun.

The windows at thr front of the house are smaller, and have blinds on them to reduce the impact of it of it works well.

Big windows in the back, but tbh even in high sun the lights are on.

It's not a problem to be honest. We love the house andnit works for us.

Can you visit it at another time of day to see what the sun is like? Our position of house definitely put others off so we got it for cheaper than the equivalent south facing houses on the estate.

I have a South facing garden. It's short but really wide. We have a few tallish trees and lots of high bushes along the back. When the sun is high in the summer we get little shade and during the winter the back of the house still gets full sun. The front gets little sun though and is generally quite cold. I don't mind this, as it's lovely to retreat there when it's hot and cosy in the winter. We do have another seating area at the back though, which I use more in the summer as it's considerably warmer.