House names you might have chosen, and their meanings.

I moved into a little semi cottage called White House - which it wasn't. I changed it to Border Cottage as it is literally on the English/Welsh border.

There's a house near me called The Paw House-always makes me smile!

A Victorian house in our road is called 'At Last'. That seems to breathe a sigh of relief to me; I wonder why it was called that? Maybe years of saving - or a hideous, complex session of conveyancing with many doubts about reaching completion.

Seen in Spain....while I was house and pet sitting in a very upmarket urbanisation: Costa Packet

No house name for us but here is a road nearby that I would love to live on just so I could say my address is Clattering Ford!

We live in rural Wales, our last four houses have been Ty something so very confusing when we’re talking about a past time. Ty means house, our current house is ‘Ty name House’ so House name House, silly I know but that’s how it’s registered officially. Changing it would affect too many day to day things to bother.
For those of you using house names or even past house names as passwords, do be careful, easy for those up to no good to get that information.

My house has a number but the name of the close was unpronounceable to me when I first moved in as was the first street I lived in in Wales

I had a heart surgeon friend who named his house 'Diastole', which is medical terms for the heart being 'at rest'. I thought it was brilliant!

House called South Riding when we lived in Oxfordshire, husband was a dyed in the wool Yorkshireman. One in Devon called Tigh-Na-Mara, from the Gaelic, house by the sea. Present one The Old Surgery, because it was!

My favourite house name is on Picklers Hill. It is called PanYan!

I never knew you could change the name of a house.

We have only had houses with numbers not names until we bought our French house it is called Val Rouge. Red valley, we asked the estate agent and he said historically it was a valley had had seen a lot of fighting and bloodshed. We did not dare to ask if the fighting had been with the English.

Thats’ ...my uncle had a dog named ‘dog’...sorry just had cataract op and not quite seeing aright.

There is something g quite odd about fiving a house a name.....or a car...myself clean had a dognamed’dog’. You can see where I get my cynicism from!

A retired nurse friend always re- names her houses Bedside Manor very useful when she has moved house!?

Lots of older Irish houses have beautiful names that have been passed down the generations and one of my favourites is
Ceol na bPáistí meaning music of children.
Our previous house was called Killahangil. Kill (or Cill) is church and angil is angel so Killahangil is church of the angels. There were several standing stones in the field next door and an ancient stone fort within walking distance on the hill top.

A friend of ours called their house Coppers. We looked around and couldn’t see any copper beech trees and asked,why the name? They replied ‘that’s all we had left after we bought it!’

My Mum had a nameplate made for our house with our Clan name (Menzies) in Gaelic - Méinnearach - but took it down again after a couple of neighbours said 'Oh - we didn't know you were German!). A friend from when we lived in North Wales told me her Welsh friends in Dover, Kent had called their house Llamedos - they had lots of people asking what this 'Welsh' word meant - just read it backwards was the reply!

My house has a girl's name, but as it relates to someone who owned the house at least thirty years ago we never use it, just the number.

Friends called their house "Plusfivebob" as due to having a thatched roof they had to pay a higher insurance rate

I always wanted to live by the sea, and would have named my house Gonpaddlin. It'll never happen, but the dream's still there.

Someone I know named their house Passing Wind.

My house has a name and I love it. Totally inherited but I used to use it when answering the telephone. That way I only ended up with personal calls as 'cold' invariably responded with 'pardon?' and usually disappeared. I don't find it pretentious at all. Surely that's owner's attitude and nothing else.

I have a number but also a name which I chose 30 odd years ago Nuts end I was freshly divorced and it was a new beginning and felt that this nut was going to put down roots and stay there......
and I did. ?

We live in Sweden and have a house in Cumbria which we have a slate sign with "huset" on, that means just "the house" as we always say, going to the house or the house in the UK, it amuses the neighbours as they can say one word in Swedish, a bit of fun really.