Where Am I? No. 12a - Part Two of "Cazza's House"

[groom]

Maybe it's where they tie the dog up the he's naughty 

Or there for his use instead of a lamp post. 

[Jool]

Maybe it's where they tie the dog up the he's naughty 

Or there for his use instead of a lamp post. 

Maybe that's why the dog is staring at the photographer, getting a little too close to his beloved pee post 

[ScouseBoy]

She may be a female dog, In which case  they do not need a lamp post

[Mike in Cumbria]

Just catching up with the last few days' input into this thread - you have all been working hard!
Picking up (late) on some of the previous comments, I also think this way down south. I also see trees rather than an aerial behind the house.

If this house was in my part of the world it would almost certainly still exist, but development pressures have been more intense in the south. The side by side maps posted earlier showed several large houses, one of which looked similar to Cazza's, but none of them have survived - it may well be that Cazza's house has now been replaced by a housing estate.

Mike

[groom]

it may well be that Cazza's house has now been replaced by a housing estate.

I'm afraid you could well be right, so many of the large houses in this part of the country have gone that way. If it was a private house and the photographer was just there as a guest, this may be the only existing photo of the place.

[janan]

it may well be that Cazza's house has now been replaced by a housing estate.

I'm afraid you could well be right, so many of the large houses in this part of the country have gone that way. If it was a private house and the photographer was just there as a guest, this may be the only exsisting photo of the place.

 I have to agree. It's name probably survives in a road name, but, sadly, we don't know what that is!

[arthurk]

I'm not quite ready to give up yet, so here's another question:

Do we have any consensus on how the house is aligned? The weather vane (main pic and closeup no.2) seems to suggest it's more or less on a NE-SW or NW-SE axis, but which? The windswept trees behind suggest to me we might be looking at a SE face, but is the top right arm of the weather vane (as we see it) thicker than the rest, and therefore north - in which case this would be the NE face? I think the general levels of light and shade would be consistent with this if it was taken fairly early in the morning.

If we can get the alignment sorted, and take that together with what I think is probably rising ground behind and to the right, would that help to eliminate quite large areas from the search?

Arthur

[janan]

I'm not quite ready to give up yet, so here's another question:

Do we have any consensus on how the house is aligned? The weather vane (main pic and closeup no.2) seems to suggest it's more or less on a NE-SW or NW-SE axis, but which? The windswept trees behind suggest to me we might be looking at a SE face, but is the top right arm of the weather vane (as we see it) thicker than the rest, and therefore north - in which case this would be the NE face? I think the general levels of light and shade would be consistent with this if it was taken fairly early in the morning.

If we can get the alignment sorted, and take that together with what I think is probably rising ground behind and to the right, would that help to eliminate quite large areas from the search?

Arthur

I haven't given up either. I think you're right about the weather vane. So if the house is NE facing the prevailing winds are easterly, ruling out Hants and West Sussex where they are from the south, otherwise pretty much the area a lot of us have been looking but also includes East Anglia and more, see

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/geography/weather_climate/climate_rev4.shtml

[arthurk]

I haven't given up either. I think you're right about the weather vane. So if the house is NE facing the prevailing winds are easterly, ruling out Hants and West Sussex where they are from the south, otherwise pretty much the area a lot of us have been looking but also includes East Anglia and more, see

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/geography/weather_climate/climate_rev4.shtml

Re the bit I've bolded - no, I don't think so.

Firstly, I find that BBC page and map rather confusing. Based on my understanding of British weather, it's showing the characteristics of winds from each direction, and the zones in which each of them is most noticeably felt. What it doesn't show is that for most of the time most of the country is under the influence of more or less westerly winds, so that in most places trees that are exposed to strong winds will lean broadly eastwards. (Near coasts this might be different, as maximum exposure is often towards the sea and there can be onshore winds due to local variations in land and sea temperature as well as due to global air currents.)

Anyway, what I'm getting from No.12/12a is that we're looking at the NE face (never mind for now the question of whether this is front, back or side), the trees are mostly exposed to winds roughly from S or SW (it's hard to be precise), but on the day the photo was taken, the wind was approximately NW.

I think this is still consistent with Sussex and the Weald area - and being nearer the south coast than the west, it may be reasonable to think of the prevailing wind there being SW rather than W.

Arthur