The back garden faces North-West, but, being raised, it gets the sun all day (depending on the season of course). It is fairly secluded and not directly overlooked, and benefits from mature laurel bushes, pine trees and two apple trees (which provide a good harvest of apples at the end of the summer). There is a gate in the back fence leading to a secret garden - a wild meadow of long grasses, shrubs and trees which borders the area of designated public open space (which means it can't be built on without changing the designation).
The garden used to slope down to a low-height retaining wall, but this was levelled off to make more usable space / lawn at the top of the garden. To achieve this, the pictured retaining wall was built, and a raised terrace installed between the top garden and the ground level. This retaining wall is over a foot higher than it needs to be and the could easily have the top three courses of bricks removed without affecting the levels of the upper garden. This would make the wall seem less imposing at the ground level. I am in the process of getting a quote from builders to do this and add a render to the brickwork.
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| View from rear bedroom 3 - looking North West |
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| View from rear bedroom 3 - looking west |
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| View from rear bedroom 3 - panoramic shot |
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