The brief answer is “It depends which side of the road the house is on!”

If you are facing the back wall the odd-numbered house owners are responsible for maintaining the left-hand fences and the even-numbered house owners are responsible for the right-hand ones!

By way of explanation…

In the UK there is a generally held ‘convention’ that, when facing the house with your back to the road, you are responsible for the upkeep of the left-hand boundary fences or walls and your neighbour the right-hand ones as you view it (i.e. their left-hand ones). However, this does not always apply.

Who is responsible for the boundary should be marked on the Land Registry title plans with a little ‘T’ symbol sticking out of the boundary, but the title plans for Marcia Road houses do not seem to have them, leaving owners questioning what their responsibilities are.

However, a copy of Galliard’s (the developers) Conveyance Plan that was given to the first owner of one of the houses does have the ‘T’ symbols. You can view or download a PDF copy of it here.

This shows that the left-hand convention applies to the odd-numbered houses but the even-numbered ones are marked as being responsible for the boundaries to the right.

Did someone at Galliard mess up when the plots were being registered? Or does it derive from the original Victorian plots? We will probably never know!