I have a question about Harry Potter/England

[conuly]

In book 5, it says that Sirius' house (number 12) is in between numbers 11 and 13. Is this normal for England? In the US, streets are all even on one side, and all odd on the other, so number 12 would be in between 10 and 14, not 11 and 13.

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[the-lady-aurora.livejournal.com]

The house where I grew up was number 63 but the house to the left was number 20 because it fell into a new road. The house opposite was number 150 which was next to number 21. Again, number 21 was in the same raod as number 20 but 150 was in our road. The odds went to the right and then, when they got so far, they became a new road. The evens then started on the opposite side and worked their way back towards the top.

Where I live now, we don't have house numbers just names and not everyone displays their house name easily. Plus, I live in Wales and most of the house names are really hard to pronounce or remember even if you see them :0)