house names

Flower I like it! Llamedos! Bit like the Welsh village in Under Milk Wood [Dylan Thomas was a naughty boy] called Llareggub.
Ok.... so, if you haven't got a house name at the moment what would you name your house? And why don't you?All it needs is imagination and a plaque.
I always feel more at home with a house if it has a name.A bit like a pet!

Fred.

There is a road called Pickler's Hill in a nearby town where one house is named PanYan.
A cottage in my village has a pair of owls depicted in the stained glass of the front door, so it is named Two Hoots.
I have a tiny terraced house with no name, but a friend calls it Sheep Dip due to steep garden and farmland beyond.
I feel sorry for the local postmen and women, as several long roads here have no numbers at all, names only.

Our house, a former Victorian Board School, was called 'Truants' by the previous owners and next door is 'Old School Yard'

My last house but 12 is called 'Maytum Cottage', which in days past (1700s) was corrupted from 'Maytime' meaning then, Hawthorn. I always thought it was a lovely name, once I knew the meaning.

I did plan to call my house The Hovel years ago [I'd forgotten that] but never got round to getting a plaque made [my ex was always working on the house and never finished anything so eventually I gave up trying to keep on top of cleaning it properly because, as soon as I did there would be plaster dust everywhere again]. But my MIL did give me a plaque saying 'Bless this Mess'. [Light bulb moment;I've suddenly realised where my ex's lack of tact came from]. To be fair she was actually quite a dear.

Tegan
Janerowena I like the Maytum Cottage I had forgotten that about May having 2 meanings.
Shysal ..... Panyan !!!! you need to be older like us to remember that one, no doubt some people are in the dark about that house name where they live. They could rename it as Branston
Kittylester did you keep the name Truants or did you change it?
Ana more imagination required!
House names do seem to be an ever evolving thing, as years ago I remember not only Dunroamings, but also Bide-A-Wee [ I saw that one every day on the way to school, and it never failed to amuse me.]Also there used to be a lot of holiday destination names used, particularly place names from the Lake District and the West Country.Do you remember any old ones?

We're called Printerspie.

PRINTMISS that house name ties in neatly with your name on here, and also sounds unique and interesting.

A new house down the road, put up a name this week on a rather attractive piece of wood, COSTA FORTUNE

We didn;t keep 'Truants', we though having 2 numbers was enough without adding a name into the mix.

I grew up in a house called 'Vanart' - no idea why it was called that unless the previous owners were called Vanessa and Arthur.

Our first house (In Surrey) was called Braemar. Couldn't cope with that so I renamed it Wren Cottage as it was so small. 40 years on it is still called that. We then moved to Hawthorns - big hedge all round it, and our/my present house is called St. Helen's as apparently at the beginning of the 20 century, it was the home of the local Catholic priest. Don't use it though, as not religious!! (Didn't know there was a St. Helen )

Gally yes there was a St Helen and also a St Helena. By the way, in another thread you were thinking about moving house, did you decide to go for it or to stay put?Just wondering.

Oh, fancy that! I often wondered why that house was called Garth.
What a brilliant lot you gransnetters are.. thank you.

roses - still trying to make up my mind! Return from an extended trip to Oz in February and will try to get my head around it then. So many options but fearful that I might choose the wrong one......(thanks for remembering )

I think I would like to call mine"Home at Last" smile

I think I would like to call mine"Home at Last"

Eliza maybe Home At Last 2 ?
Had a quick look at house names on the internet, seems that one of the most popular in Uk is..... The Bungalow! Lack of imagination or what? Shortly followed by The White House [groan]

Mine is called Rotorua. I know it is a place in New Zealand but was nothing to do with me. One friend has always addressed letters to Rot n Ruin which is not too far from the truth !

rosesarered - ties in also with how we live - it is a word used if someone mixes up or drops a tray of type which has been set by hand in the old world of letter-press printing. It should be 'printerspi', I adapted it with the miss-spelling! I sometimes think our house gives the impression of being picked up and dropped at random.

I'm not really too keen on giving houses names. Especially ones like Dunroaming and Costa Fortune. I can understand names given to describe the situation it stands in but otherwise I don't see the point.

Our house is called "Mountain View" (not Vista Montagna!) We can see mountains and thought we'd be different and stick to English!!

I agree with you Ginny don't see the point - in fact I think it's pretentious, especially if it's a small suburban semi or bungalow!

If I bought a period property that already was known by its name then I would use it but certainly wouldn't give a house a name.

ginny my house was built over a hundred years ago and has never been numbered. The builder gave each house a name and most of the original names are still in use.

I can see the point to that grannyactivist.