WARDENBY · Halbourne
We sell the house you can see at four o'clock.
Every photograph on our books is graded to the compass bearing of the room it shows — the light in it is the light it gets, not the light a filter gave it.
Book a free valuationAshcombe Hill House · 21 December
Five rooms, in the order they take light
Scroll and the clock runs from eight to four on the shortest day. Each room opens over the interval its own window is in sun — the kitchen faces east and is finished before half past nine; the bedroom faces west and gets nothing until the afternoon. The order is the house's, not ours.
Solar time
08:00
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Kitchen
85° E
In sun 08:12–09:27 · 75 min
A long run under the east window; the sun is off it before mid-morning in winter.
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Dining room
118° ESE
In sun 08:12–11:52 · 220 min
Glazed to the south-east, so the table is lit through breakfast and lunch.
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Drawing room
168° SSE
In sun 08:12–15:36 · 445 min
Three windows almost due south. The longest-lit room in the house.
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Garden room
205° SSW
In sun 09:27–15:48 · 381 min
Added in 1996 facing the lower terrace. Takes light from mid-morning until it goes.
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Principal bedroom
262° W
In sun 13:34–15:48 · 134 min
Doors onto the west balcony. Nothing until the afternoon, then everything.
A window stops counting as in sun once the sun is more than 60° off the wall it is set in, because at that angle the opening presents half its face area to the sky. Positions are computed for 51.45° N; the clock is apparent solar time, so it is the sun's noon rather than the one on your phone. One room on our books never opens at all.
On our books
All properties →
Ashcombe Hill House
£1,150,000
For sale · 5 bed · South-facing
A stone house of about 1840 on the south slope above the river, with the garden falling away in three terraces.
14 Mercer Row
£395,000
For sale · 2 bed · West-facing
A second-floor flat in the 1930s Mercer Row block, with a west balcony over the yard and a second bedroom that never sees the sun.
Thurloe Green
£875,000
For sale · 4 bed · South-west-facing
A 1960s house rebuilt behind its original frame in 2014, set back from the lane behind a long lawn.
Selling
One fee of 1.2% plus VAT on completion, no tie-in past twelve weeks, and photographs that tell a buyer which way the rooms face before they visit.
How we sell →Lettings
Full management at 9% plus VAT of rent collected, referencing and deposit protection handled, and a landlord who hears from us before there is a problem, not after.
For landlords →From the journal
All notes →Which way does it face, and why it's the first thing we tell you
Aspect is the one thing about a house you cannot change and cannot fake. Here's how we read it, and why it's on every listing we write.
Thinking of moving?
An hour at the house, a written figure within two working days, no obligation to instruct us.