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We live in a 1940's ex corpo house in Dublin.
Part of the boundary between us and next door was the back wall of our shed. The concrete shed was corpo built at the same time as the house and had a concrete slab roof that overhung a few inches all round, including on the neighbour's side.
There is also a concrete post further down the garden, also original, which would have suppported a wire boundary fence.
My question is....where exactly is the official boundary likely to be?
Does anyone know what was standard practice with corpo houses 60 years ago?
I know it sounds petty and we're only talking about less than 12" max, but in our case it does matter as it will determine where we can put our gutters on a new shed we have built and I want to keep everything above board with the neighbours.
I'm sure rows have started over smaller issues!
Part of the boundary between us and next door was the back wall of our shed. The concrete shed was corpo built at the same time as the house and had a concrete slab roof that overhung a few inches all round, including on the neighbour's side.
There is also a concrete post further down the garden, also original, which would have suppported a wire boundary fence.
My question is....where exactly is the official boundary likely to be?
- The middle of the back wall of our shed (ie that we jointly own the wall)?
- or the outside edge of the wall (i.e that the shed is built right up to the boundary, but is still completely ours)?
- or even at the edge of the roof slab (i.e a couple of inches beyond the edge of the wall)? It almost appears to be this if you follow the line from the fence post, but it's very hard to tell.
Does anyone know what was standard practice with corpo houses 60 years ago?
I know it sounds petty and we're only talking about less than 12" max, but in our case it does matter as it will determine where we can put our gutters on a new shed we have built and I want to keep everything above board with the neighbours.
I'm sure rows have started over smaller issues!