Talk:Flying freehold

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I own a mid terraced cottage (in the UK) the front and back gardens of which do not line up. i.e. there is a kink in both party walls. At some stage in the distant past, probably when the entire terrace was in one ownership, a two storey extension was added to what is now my property. Part of this backs onto my neighbour's house and the ridge of the pitched roof, which is at right angles to the main building, runs back to join the main roof. The effect of this is that part of the extension roof is over the neighbouring property, although there is no access to it internally. Does this constitute a "flying freehold"? I do not wish to claim it as such and would be happy for the roof over my neighbour's house to be in his ownership, and so his responsibility. --Maunderbeak (talk) 11:00, 21 June 2011 (UTC)