How small could an indoor school be?

[livingsky]

Wondered if anyone could tell me if this is doable?

Going to look at a property this weekend and it has a 70 x 30 ft shed, I don’t know what it looks like inside but if I wanted to convert this to be able to ride in would this size be viable or really too small? It would just be for one horse at a time and just for winter use. I really would love to be able to ride in the winter, nothing serious just enough to keep us all ticking over. On a plus side it is heated as well.

Property with large shed

This is a picture of the shed, not very good looks quite narrow but could also be the angle.

Pic of shed

The rest of the property ticks the boxes for us as well plenty of land nice little house and not far from schools. Only downside is OH would have to travel 45 mins to work which is fine most of the time but not nice finishing on a night shift and having to drive home in a blizzard.

 

[Rambo]

I would say that this would be too small for lungeing let alone riding in. 30ft is less than 10mtrs so imagine riding a rectangle in one quarter of a 40m x 20m dressage arena and you will get the idea

 

[Thistle]

I agree with Rambo, it's way too small. Be a good turnout pen for when the weather is very bad though

 

[Kenzo]

Too small even to lunge in, specially if you have horses and because of the shape and then once you have your surface in, wouldnt be so bad if you had little ponies, ideal as a round pen for backing though.

 

[kezimac]

our indoor is 14m x 24m small yes.....but we been able to ride all winter when everyone else hasnt

 

[cptrayes]

Way too small. MIne is 90x38 and that's really tight.

 

[livingsky]

ah yes just done a conversion

it is under 10 metres, I was hoping it would be ok to at least lunge in. This is the problem with day dreaming and having cabin fever you get desperate!!!