House names you might have chosen, and their meanings.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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".

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?

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. . . .

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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!