house names

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 )

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

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.

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 )

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.

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

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

We're called Printerspie.

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

Fred.

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!

Lots of houses and roads in North Wales are called Garth, or include the word, which in Welsh means cliff or hill.

henetha Lots of places in North-east England are called Garth. It means an enclosed courtyard and comes from Old Norse.

Didn't Dorothy Parker call her house The Rising Gorge?

17 [formerly no 2] - blame the council!!

Oh I don't know henetha I quite like both of those names. Sometimes houses are already named when you move into them , once in Cornwall our house had been named Ar-tic-toc which I assumed was Cornish [until I found out it was Eskimo for polar bear.]It was all painted white!Another Cornish house was named Kel Gover which I was told meant hidden stream [small stream in back garden that you couldn't see from the road.]You don't see many Dunroamings about these days [thankfully] but there may be a few Costapackets.

I grew up in a house called Thorngrove, - not very attractive!
Then my first house when we got married was called Garth.
It put me off house names for ever!

I know a house named Llamedos ( read backwards it says it all)

Little Laight Cottage in Scotland is where my husband was living when we got engaged. It was a bothy then, but now it's a rather lovely holiday cottage.

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There are no house names or numbers in our village. Address is surname: hamlet name: village. The one postcode covers an area of several communes and quite a few square miles. Delivery drivers are very confused and it is not unknown for us to get stuff for other English people, presumably because all English surnames look the same.
There is vague talk of reform, but as this is France I won't be holding my breath.

Mine is Rubblehall...............appropriate since I share my life with a man who has an obsession with bricks .