House name

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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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 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.

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

In honour of me.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I always thought Lodge meant the gatehouse to a large Manor House.

We bought a house from the people who built it in 1934 and named it after a feature of the house. We thought the name a bit blunt and added 'Cottage' to it. The Post Office was informed and we never had any trouble with post going astray.

I went for a walk through a nearby new estate. The houses are all in roads or closes with a clear house numbering. I was amused to notice how many had also acquired names as well.

I really cannot see the point in naming a house when it has a street number.

My husband and I bought a bungalow which we later discovered had had it's name changed years previously. We were forever getting letters about getting a TV licence, even thought we had one under the present name of the property. We were continually threatened with the detector van and I don't think the situation was ever resolved. (I don't live there now).

Yes, get the tree checked out!!
We named our house after a large tree in the back garden but it is looking a bit sad now and may disappear altogether due to ash die-back

We changed the name of our last house from something unpronounceable in Maltese to 'Casa Nascosta' meaning 'hidden house' (in Italian) which it was. I have since been told it is unlucky to change a house's name.

I like the name Maplewood, or The Maples but it's your house so pick what you like best.

My DH grew up in "Rosemount" so we called our house that after they had moved from there. Then realised we'd better have some roses so bought a lovely yellow one named Laura after our lovely first DGD.
Happy new home lucky girl then whatever you decide on for a name-just make sure all the official folks know-you don't want the fire engine wasting time looking for you?

roses - bungalow purchase is going through the motions at the moment and we have our fingers crossed that it will all go smoothly - but you never know with searches and solicitors! Fingers crossed; and thank you all for your goood wishes.

You will need to tell the Post Office if there isn't a number.

Luckygirl glad you have now bought the new bungalow! It will be fun to adapt it now to your own needs, decorate, maybe new furniture etc.
Not too keen on Maple Lodge, it does sound a bit 'Agatha Christie' but Maplewood or even The Maples sounds fine.However, it's your house, so don't be swayed by any of us.

We have bought houses that had names as well as numbers. We have always dropped the name and just used the number. It makes life so much easier.

I wish you much joy in your new home