Tell me about your South facing courtyard only North facing front homes ….

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Bit of a niche one here.

Period terrace we have offered on. V special in terms of unlikely to get anything on east / west aspect

But - front of house gets v little / to no sunlight for much of the year as almost exactly due north. A long front garden which my DH has now clocked on second visit is going to be in shadow most of the year.

There is a rear courtyard - south facing obvs - which I love with nearly full length Georgian window gets morning / to mid afternoon sun into kitchen which I love. But master bed + both receptions face north. But aren’t dark at all because long windows and open vista / sky beyond.

But DP really despondent now as houses on other side of square are front facing west / rear small courtyard facing east which he has now.

Any experiences or will he regret it forever if we do this.

I have a terraced house with the same aspect, and I particularly wanted it for this reason. Sun at the back is far preferable to at the front. On the rare occasion we get lovely weather, my neighbours opposite have been known to drink wine/sunbathe/bbq in the front garden because they have no sun at the back and I always feel sorry for them!

I've had two south facing back gardens, and the first was a smaller one. The small garden was beautiful in the sun, but, I warn you, too hot to sit in during the summer.

That said, I'd still prefer south facing back, as that is usually where the kitchen etc is, so the spaces during the day-when you actually want the sun there. The evening you have the living room-mostly dark anyway, then the bedroom-dark is better.

To add to the poster whose house gets very hot. I have a Victorian house with really thick walls, in the summer we open the windows to heat it up. Our conservatory gets really hot but doesn't warm the house much.

If this is a 1840s property it will probably be pretty cool inside anyway.