All that having the wall lit by the sun at 12 noon does is to allow you to 
identify the direction of due South.

I assume that you are using the technique where at the instant of 12 o'clock 
local-apparent-noon you mark the line of a shadow of a vertical plumb line 
on a horizontal surface adjacent to the wall (like on the top of a table 
pushed against the wall) and that you then measure the angle between this 
line and a perpendicular to the wall in order to find the wall's 
declination.

If you need to establish the declination of a wall that is not lit at 12 
o'clock local apparent noon then you need to make the measurement at a time 
when the sun is exactly a known angle from due South,say South-West.  This 
then gives you a line from which you can construct the meridian and the 
declination can be found as before.

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