House names you might have chosen, and their meanings.

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.

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!

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

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 ?

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??

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.

Not keen on house names myself and the same with personalised number plates. Parents in law always named any house they lived in with the same name but had no explaination why. ?Mear where my daughter lives is a house called ‘suitsus’.!

We did consider calling our house Vodka Springs .......

Meant to add - a funny one I read about is Thistledew, which sounds quite poetic but means This’ll Do.

When I was young most suburban houses had names, even if they had numbers as well. The names were sometimes imaginative, usually not. There was the occasional pretentious name, like Balmoral for a three bedroom semi.

The first house I remember was called Newthorpe. There were no numbers in that road, so it had to have a name. My parents chose the name, because when they bought it it was called Kozy Kot, spelt thus, which obviously they couldn’t live with! The next one was called The Beeches, accurate but boring. When I revisited these roads many years later all the names had gone, which seemed a bit sad.

Both my brother and one son bought houses that already had names, again in roads that don't have the option of a number. Not the names they would have chosen, but acceptable. I always feel it must be very hard on new postmen and delivery drivers.

My current house hasn’t got a name, nor have any others in this road, so it would seem a bit pretentious to name it. I’d quite like to, and I thought of Greengarth or Foxgloves. Wouldn’t dare, though.

I don’t name a property if it has a street number but two previous homes were .........House in areas whereby each new owner continued to use the same name.

I have been told too that changing a house name brings bad luck. No idea if this is true but just to hedge my bets, didn’t change ours ?

If only these houses.......and their names!!...........could talk eh?

When I was still at work I used to pass a house called
"Iznorin".

I had no idea what it was supposed to be until we were chatting about house names and a chap in the office said he played cricket with the son of the house.

It was named by the wife for her OH and it is "He's Not In" said in a Yorkshire accent.

Still makes me smile if I drive past it.

To answer the OP's question the name I would choose is part of our surname, which would be very appropriate for a house name.

A friend's DH self built many times in our area. They occupied them for a year or two and moved on to the next. All the houses had names that contained my friend's first name. Could have been tacky but they were clever about it.

House near us is called ‘Dunfermin’ which translated (!) from Doric is Done Farming. I like it. Our last house had a name but like others I’d have to kill! We named it based on the local landscape features.

One of my favourites is "O`R DIWEDD!.......which translated from welsh means "At Last".........I am sure there would have been a story to tell!

I once went for a walk in a built up area, and spotted a house with the name
"Y WUCKING FURRY" - think about it.

Done it again. I know how it happened. I pressed 'control return' and when nothing seemed to happen, I pressed them again. Note to self: Press 'post message' instead.

In 1981, I was Census Officer for the Marshlands area of West Norfolk, abutting Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire. The long straight roads through the fens were a nightmare for the posties and my enumerators, many of the houses lacking either names or numbers and sometimes known by something like: 'the house next to the sub station'.

In 1981, I was Census Officer for the Marshlands area of West Norfolk, abutting Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire. The long straight roads through the fens were a nightmare for the posties and my enumerators, many of the houses lacking either names or numbers and sometimes known by something like: 'the house next to the sub station'.

There was a local authority house near where I used to live called 'Dunaskin'. Made me smile.

Where we used to live, on a country lane, the postman and neighbours asked us to name the house, we were the only house that just had a number.We took a long time to think of one, and by the time we had, it was time to move on.
When we moved here, it was already named ‘Apple Trees’
As there were a couple of old apple trees in the garden and this area was known for fruit growing in the past.
About two years ago we removed the apple trees ( too old)
And renamed the house.Can’t say what it is ( like Maw says,
Password!)
Lots of houses in the village have names, some lovely and some a bit strange, but no doubt the owners know why!

“Moneypit”?

What Teetime says.

We live in half an old school - which would be a silly name for a school! It wad called 'Truants' by the previous people which I thought was quite witty but they had a reputation for misbehaving so we thought we'd better disassociate ourselves from that. Actually, 'Repossessed and needing lots of work' would have been apt!