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if you've got a compass and stand near the house you can work it out.

basically if youre stood on Lacon Road, the sun comes form Crystal Palace Rd side and heads over to Lordship lane side, it's leaning in sky towards North Cross Rd (if you're stood on Lacon).

I have a West facing garden and based on my experience there you'll start getting shade in your garden from your house/next door's house around noon and your house will block out the sun after around 3-4pm in summer.

This is approx stuff.

I'd suggest knocking on some doors there or talking to the owner / person next door ?

Sunlight in east facing gardens depends on surrounding buildings, fence height etc e.g. how far the next building is from the foot of your garden and how tall that building is. Clearly you'll get more sun in the morning (vs west facing) , about the same amount midday and shadow earlier in the evening. If your east facing garden slopes up, away from the house you'll get more as your reducing the height at which the rooftop of your house casts shadow.


On Fellbrigg we had a 60 ft east facing garden onto Ulverscroft Rd houses (which had smaller 30 ft back yards) and got good sun until 7pm ish in June/July. You also get some shade which is important for most plants.


South facing gardens are probably best for max sunlight, west facing for evening sunlight which is also good for summertime BBQ's ......

Thanks, I know the longer the garden is the later the back will still get some sun. The garden for the house I'm looking at is about 30-35ft. Not sure how long the sun will reach the back of an eastern aspect garden in a typical two-storey victorian semi. In the summer time, if the back of the garden got some sun through the evening so you could sit out after work, I think I could live with that, even if the rest of the garden was in shade.

I'm in Ulverscroft Road (on the odd-numbered side) and I'm pretty sure my garden faces East.


It doesn't get sun in the evening except around midsummer, but also it's quite a small garden.


It's good now I'm not working because I can sit in the garden in the sun in the morning, but when I was working it was a pain.

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