house names

rosesarered well it was in the suburbs of Halifax which is hardly "a distant and unknown region" and it was built in 1959 so not an old house from antiquity. Maybe somebody in its past had connections with the far north and used poetic licence to name it. We'll never know!

Ladies please, you should know that it's not the done thing to ask questions of Royalty

deep curtsy Respect to our Princess Phoenix

Come on phoenix spill the beans. How did you come to be living next door to Her Majesty and what were the ups and downs?

I first realised that my future husband and I were from completely different backgrounds when he gave me his parents address to write to him:

House Name
Town
Postcode

When I pressed him for the number and street he just said, no that's all the address you need. On my first visit I discovered it was a Georgian Manor house and the area it stood in was named after the house. There are still the remains of the original medieval house in the grounds.

You were prisoners!!!!!! ha-ha. Seriously, that sounds very grand Phoenix
was your ex DH a royal hanger-on or did he work there?OR [sound of trumpet fanfare] was he [gasp] connected to THE FAMILY?
Anyway, what was it like living there? A bit spooky? Handy for the shops.

When first married ex dh we lived in King George IV Lodge, Lancaster Tower, Windsor Castle.

Gagagran I have just googled this! Ultima Thule; a distant and unknown region, far off, unknown, the extreme limit of travel. So, that begs the question of how old your house was and WHERE it was? The Hebrides?Doncaster? Or was it just somebody's joke?

Our last-but-one house always had a number whilst we lived there but when we got the deeds from the building society I found it had originally been called Ultima Thule. Not sure when or why the name fell into disuse or what it means!

phoenix I quite like Hillhead Cottage, did it remind you of a name in a sinister story?
Polygran Bridle Croft..... a converted mews house?
There is often some history behind house names, apart from the obvious ones,
does anyone live in a REALLY old house with a baffling name [which could mean something, but is now not in general use?]
Does anyone live in an old vicarage [the rectory]?
Does anyone live in a converted windmill [apart from Jonathan Creek!]
Anyone have a GAELIC house name?

Ours is Bridle Croft (came with the house) aka casa caotica

The house that exdh and I bought was known by 2 different names in the village (never found out why), Hillhead Cottage and Kites Cottage. I always felt that Hill head sounded a bit sinister, and Kites Cottage sounded twee, so it became just "Kites".

Best name I have seen recently - in a novel - was a beach house in America called 'Sea for Miles'.........

I have a friend who bought a house that was number 9 which the people before had called ' Cloud 9' as it was at the top of a hill She let a rather lovely pyrocantha grow over the ' Cloud' part.

IF I was to name my house , which I am NOT , I would call it Clouds , sounds rather dreamy and romantic !!

RiverwalkIt's entirely up to you if you name your house or not, don't think it's at all pretentious. Remember that when period houses were built, say sometime in Victorian times, they would also have been allocated a street name and number [especially since posting letters really took off]but would often give the house a name [or the builders would] even for 'small suburban semi's' or [whisper the word!] bungalows. So what is so special about a period [old] house?You do not need a mansion to have a house name.I agree that there are some silly names out there [the costa fortunes etc] but there are also a lot of pretty ones.Some houses in the past did not have numbers [especially in parts of Europe] and would have a topographical kind of name.
Since our houses cost so much, I guess it is up to us to decide on a name if we want one, although most of my houses have been named already so we tend to keep them.We don't live on an estate and our house name reflects the number of apple trees in the garden.However, even if we did buy a house on an estate, I think I would still name the house if I wanted to.It's not pretentiousness, just a matter of choice.

I can see the point to that grannyactivist.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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 !

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]

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

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