The angle of the gnomon shows that the house faces west rather than south, so the dial only tells the time in the afternoon. When the sun is shining. And very inaccurately except at the equinoxes.
Belloc got it right with his sundial motto:
I am a Sundial, and I make a botch,
Of what is done much better by a watch.
I don't think I've ever managed to successfully read the correct time from a sundial, but they do look lovely.
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