House names you might have chosen, and their meanings.

Quite frankly I don`t consider naming your house in the same league as personalised number plates.
For instance living as we do in the countryside one has to have an address as that place the Postie and callers can identify as your home.There are no numbers here.
In a town or larger Village if and where there maybe estates,or terrace houses, then fair enough they have numbers........so have a choice,though not one costing money.
Whilst paying big money for that personalised number plate which can well be classed as snobbery,having a house name in the open country is just a matter of common sense and costs nothing as a rule.

One I 've always disliked is Niaroo! Reverse of Oorain (or Our own).
A bit like the naff first name Senga - apparently a posher version of Agnes!
Is this reversing of names a Scottish tendency??

There is a very large detached house near us called 'Downsize Abbey' which always make us smile although the name is a bit of a puzzle because the house is so big ?

I remember Marwill and Willmar - evidently both were homes to Margaret and William.

My sisters house has a name and no number. Very frustrating when trying to get something delivered as it frequently doesn’t show up on their computers.

Bizarrely it is named churchview. The nearest church is about 15 miles away!

Family used to have a summer cottage by the sea called 'The Haven' - we didn't name it, no idea who did, but I always liked the safe feel of it.

I dislike the name "Newhouse" on a property because often the house is as old as I am!!!
People do lack imagination when they name these places......little wonder some change the inherited names.
Another pet hate is something like "The Anchorage" but so far inland that it sounds totally naff!

Ours is named after a tree which was in the garden which fell down.
The house seems to be standing firm so far.

Our is also named after a tree. Which is very big and still there

Friend called their house " Chez When " They liked a drink .

In a nearby riverside hamlet,there are several cottages called Creekside,including two adjoining properties both called that.....not forgetting the obvious Riversides too.

My parents had friends who called their house “Arenal ” (Majorca in those pre- package holiday days was considered very posh)
It was known universally as Urinal.

I lived in a village with a house called "Laughing Stock". When it was sold, and new owners moved in, they promptly changed its name. It foiled the postman though, as the new owners of the house had the same surname as us! It took us some time before we realised what they'd done.

We have quite a lot of house names here.
People used to gradually build themselves a little holiday bungalow out of bits and bobs, and then come down for their weekends and holidays.

I loved my husband's grandmother, but she was a dreadful snob and once told me in all seriousness that her son (my wonderfully modest father-in-law) had 'never had to live in a house with a number'.
My house has no number (gran was very approving) and it's an absolute pain as, even with SatNav, I'm often called by delivery drivers asking where the house is situated on our very long road.

My friends Dad had a house called Millstone and when he paid off the mortgage he turned the second letter L into an E and made it Milestone.

Two different houses we had in Cornwall were called
Kel Gover ( hidden stream) which made sense, and Ar-tic-toc ( eskimo for polar bear) because it was painted white.
Both houses already named.We always planned to change the polar bear one but never got around to it.
Our present house has a very normal sounding name, if a bit boring.

A rather tatty, shabby terraced house on the main road near us is called "Tumbleweed Cottage", sounds more romantic than it looks.

Friend of mine moved into a house called ' Gayboys'. She changed that pdq.

Our first home was a tiny Georgian s/d cottage in rural Surrey called Braemar. That had to go, so we renamed it Wren Cottage on account of its size. The following spring wrens nested in the porch, so it was meant to be. It still has the same name but 40+ years on is now twice the size.

Our home has a name. It is the name of the house DH grew up in. Can't tell you, of course! But it's rather pleasant and means we have roses round the door. Always use number only for deliveries.

I have seen a house called Dunroamn. I thought it was a good name.

I think 'Great Mortgages' may not have been genuine!

When my cousin and her then future husband went to view their house in the 60s she had noticed the house name above the front door of "Arholme".
Commenting on this to her fiancé on leaving he hadn't noticed so glanced back, the owners on the step waving to them, he said "you can't have a house named "Armhole"! Of course we've never let him forget it. . . .

In a village near to where I used to live there's a pretty house (no doubt listed) called 'Hope Cottage' so when I moved miles away I thought I'd adopt this name for my own small cottage-style new-build. I don't feel it's pretentious - after all if you haven't got any hope you haven't got anything, have you?