What's it like to live next door to a stables?

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We've seen a house next door to a small stables. There is a kind of training ground next the garden. When we viewed it there was some riding instruction going on. Am thinking that if we were woken at 5 am every morning by stables setting up it could be annoying. What sort of time do they generally open? Thanks

It depends if they have liveries or not.Anytime after 6am if they do I think.I'd check out what actually happens at the training ground,as we discovered after we moved house that the field opposite was used for dog agility training 2 nights a week.It was a freaking nightmare,dozens of excited dogs barking and people shouting.We were glad when they moved away.

I wouldn't think 5am. More likely 7-8am start. Is it a riding school? You could ask opening hours. If private yard likely to be quieter

I'm at your prospect of vaulting the garden wall to see your pony!

Seriously, you might be looking at early starts and late evenings if there are liveries and people sorting their horses and riding before and after work?
If a competition yard, maybe horseboxes to and fro early and late to competitions.
Is the arena floodlit? That might be annoying next door.
Have they got their own parking?

Pop round and ask - how friendly they are will also be an indication of whether you would want to live next door to them - if you are not into horses, some horsey people (although no-one on MN) can be a bit wierd eccentric (but in a nice way!)

Muck heaps can be smelly in the summer! As wisecamel says, there may be early mornings with lorries going out on competition days and coming back late - especially weekends.

Look out for floodlights which will be annoying in the darker evenings and mornings.

We live in a residential area and have our own small yard and fields behind our house. Our neighbours are brilliant and have only ever moaned once, about very early horse lorry movement and noisy people on the yard giving no regard to neighbours having a lie-in. (We are more considerate now!).

You're a townie. You'll hate it. Stick to what you know before you find yourself complaining about hay fields, crowing and "cow smells".

And mud on the road, tractors, tree pollen, the dawn chorus...

Find out if they hunt, if they do they will be at the yard at 3 or 4 am when cubbing season starts.

Check to see if they set fire to their muck heap too.

We are next to a livery yard, the entrance runs right past the end wall of our house (we bought the farmhouse, but not the yard next door).

Mornings from 6ish, never heard before, we may get the clip clopping of hooves beside the wall as people are turning out. Again in the evening, but yard closes at 9pm. The farmer does come and go on his tractor, very late in the summer months, but it isn't a problem.

The muck heap is well away from the house, although there is a horsey smell sometimes from the yard. There is also a sand school just over the fence and the only time we have heard annoying noise, was someone who was having lessons from a very noisy and shouty instructor at 8am on one Sunday morning! Luckily it only happened once or twice.

Generally, there is not much problem, we live down a dead end lane and of course we get cars coming and going to the yard, but the owner has strict rules over who can come into the yard and won't open earlier than 6 and closes the gates at 9, unless they ask speciically.

A riding school may be different, more kids running around and shouting, more cars coming and going, risk of security of strangers being around.

The best bit is that 11 years on from buying the house, our now 7 year old has started riding and we have a pony literally next door - something I only dreamed of as a horsey kid, I can't tell you how great it is to put the kettle on and go and feed the pony and get back in time for it boiling.

If you are not horsey, then think carefully, but if you are happy with country smells and sounds, it will be fine.

My yard turns out at 8am and closes at 8pm. A few exceptions when I'm competing and am off for 7 but I try to keep it quiet.
Horses will neigh when they see feed coming in the morning, Some may bang the doors. Evenings will be quieter generally, floodlights may be a problem though.
Muck heaps do smell in summer, and there will generally be more flies and Mosquitos than you find generally