View example sentences, synonyms and word forms for Curtilage.
Curtilage meaning
The area immediately surrounding a house, especially dooryard areas and sometimes including closely associated buildings and structures.
Example sentences (9)
However, courts have held aerial surveillance of curtilage not to be included in the protections from unwarranted search so long as the airspace above the curtilage is generally accessible by the public.
An application for a certificate of lawfulness for the use of an outbuilding as a single-dwelling house and surrounding land as a residential curtilage at Sycamore Lodge, Roundway Park in Devizes has been refused.
Lawful development certificate for the existing siting and use of static caravan within a defined curtilage for residential use.
The former school site includes a Grade II listed building with curtilage-listed Gatehouse meaning they have particular historic and/or architectural significance and are subject to regulations that protect their unique character.
The yard has two early 1950s buildings, located at the north-west end of the site, the remainder is a curtilage yard area, with a road leading through.
They said: “The amended garden room is smaller and less intrusive but is still larger than the other sheds and sets a precedent for living facilities beyond the curtilage of the property.
A fresh application for the pool house "within the existing curtilage of the property" has now been sent to council planners.
It also allows for exclusions however including the area around a building or farmyard (curtilage) for residents “to have reasonable measures of privacy” and “to ensure that their enjoyment of that house or place is not unreasonably disturbed”.
Prosecutor Emily Andrew told Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court: "The defendant was entering the curtilage of the property.