House names you might have chosen, and their meanings.

A small house I knew was called "Harbour View" (which it did have). The new owners arrived one winter and changed it to "Tidal Waves".

No numbers for a lot of houses here in North Wales, having one would sometimes be easier! Ours was named, in Welsh, Swn y Clychau which (I think!) means sound of bells - the church with its bells is at the bottom of the garden so most appropriate. House names can sometimes point to the history of the property too so posh names may have a reason. Not sure if I'd give a house a new name if it had a number though some names are lovely.

We live at Greystones, which is a common house name in the Cotswolds. It never seems very appropriate as the stones are honey-coloured!

If you are really using house names as passwords I would reconsider, they (and pet names) are one of the first rogues look for!

'Old Bird's House'.................in very big letters.

It should have been 'Big Bird's House' but Sesame Street beat me to it.

My old house was called “Zero” because it was built on some spare land before number 1. I quite liked the name but the new owners changed it to “Hillside”. I think the old name was better.

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.

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. ?

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.

Someone I know named their house Passing Wind.

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.

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

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.

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!

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!’

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

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!

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

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.

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

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

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!

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!

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