House name

Our first house was called Braemar, completely inappropriate as it was a tiny Georgian semi in the middle of nowhere in Surrey! We renamed it Wren Cottage and the following year we had wrens nesting in the porch, so it was meant to be. The next house was called Hawthorns - it had a whacking great hawthorn hedge on 2 sides. Our present house rejoices in the name of St. Helen's which we never use as we also have a number. Apparently in the deep distant past, probably at the turn of the 19 century, it was home to the local RC priest - I didn't even know there was a St Helen!
A name gives the house character and ownership, so if you want a name Lucky go for it - so long as it isn't something like Casa Lucky

How about Acerwood?
i too think 'Lodge' is a gatehouse to a larger house or estate.

Great idea to call it after a lovely natural feature like your maple tree. I find it abhorrent when new housing estates are named after the things that were destroyed by the builders- it just should not be allowed 'Foxes Den' 'Badger Lane' 'Orchard Close', etc - so so sad.

Our old house in the UK was called 'Threeways' as in front of it you could either go straight on into the village, right into town or left into countryside. It is now a chilrens' nursery and has been renamed after the large apple trees in the front.

Our very old house here has taken on the name of its rôle over the past 4+ centuries 'L'Ancienne Cure' - the old Vicarage, built in 1587 about 50 years after the Reformation here.

We were always tempted to call our house FUJIMAR. Which stood for F* U Jack I'm alright. . We never did though!

I worked as a nurse in a hospital where Rose Cottage was the name given to the Mortuary! It did have roses around the door. Can't help remembering when I see a house with this name.

The close I live in is named after a tree species. If that has to be removed will we have to change the name?

The houses here are all numbered it would seem very pretentious to give them a name.

luckygirl Do you actually have any Maples there? Something musical for you? I am afraid any thing called a "lodge" sound like a care home to me as well.

Wealthy people used to have hunting lodges in the shires (Leceister, Nottingham, Northampton).A lodge did mean a house at the entrance to an estate, but it also meant somewhere somebody stayed for a purpose but didn't necessarily have all the amenities they would expect in their homes.

Our village house, once a farmhouse, has been around for over 500 years and I suppose must have had a name at soemtime, but I have never come across one in any of the documents available on the property. I am quite happy just having a number and a road name.

Could you use the same name but in modern English? Would it still be twee?

Mine is about to become 'Old Bird's House'

In honour of me.

I always wanted a number, as a name seemed to imply a large estate.
However, we seemed to inherit names as there were no numbers in the road. We once changed the name from a town in Africa, which meant nothing to us, to Beech Cottage. We then planted a beech hedge. We didn't tell the Post Office and the postman just became used to it. Our present house was given a number several years after we moved in, so we just dropped the name which was a lake in Scotland and again meant nothing to us.

We changed our previous house name from "Red House" to "Maison Rouge" as there was another "Red House" at the bottom of the road. The street had no numbers and all the houses had to have name. All terribly unoriginal...
We had to go to the council offices and tell them - not the PO of the name change.

I agree with the lodge part being ott. How about Maple View or Maple Croft. Or how about a name of a place you love .
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Thanks for all the ideas - we are cogitating! I agree about the lodge. And yes there is a maple there, which was why this all sprang to mind.

The house name that always brings a smile to my face is' Llamedos'.
Read it backwards and you will see why
Years ago, I moved into a bungalow which was called:
'The Bungalow'
I am still wondering why it was given such a boring and uninspiring name. I can only assume that at the time that it was built, it was possibly the only one in the village.

My cousin's house is the bungalow, his parents lived in the house at the top of the smallholding so his home at the bottom of the garden was the bungalow, logical I suppose.

Friends of ours called their house "Number Eight". They simply counted the houses from the bottom of the lane and worked out what number it would have been if anybody had bothered to number them.

grandMattie I am sorry but "Maison Rouge" makes me think of a house of ill repute.

It makes me think of a horror film, for some reason...

What ever you do, do NOT name it 'Rose Cottage' - that is Navy slang for STD clinic!!

Well I never knew- will go to bed tonight just a little less stupid- thanks.

Rose Cottage is definitely out then! - either an STD clinic or the morgue!

Well, I never knew that either (about Rose Cottage) despite coming from a Naval family

Niaroo.... Read backwards, "Oor Ain" ...(Our Own) in Scots!

I love house names that are a romantic nod to the past. East Anglia was the site of many airfields in WW2 and many years ago I used to drive past a derelict home called Flight Path Cottage. I would imagine the occupants lying awake listening to the drone of bombers, counting them out and counting them back again.

It's long gone now - replaced by a Grand Design. I don't know if they kept the name. I know I would have done.