Clever/funny house names.

You're probably not on their sat-nav, glass. They just give up and go home...

Delivery people cant find us too remote .

All the houses on our road have a name. I wish they had numbers as well because of the difficulty some delivery people seem to have distinguishing one name from another...

My house has a name its a very old house.

We bought a house with the number 13. I didn't really mind this, but I gave it the name 'Firdene'.

If your house has a name, but no number then you have to get permission from the local council and the Post Office to change the name. If your house has a number then you can name it, but only in accordance with your local council's rules.

Where we live most houses have numbers but an old cottage we sold which used to be 2 The Knoll, has been renamed Knoll Farmhouse its new owners - sounds much grander, but most people in the village have known it longer than they have lived there so they're unlikely to be impressed

I am new to GN so hope my comment is appropriate. I remembered a previous house where our neighbours called their semi "Penniless"! No her name was not Penny but she did have 3 teenagers!

It has always puzzled me whether you just name your house if you wish or have to gain permission from someone not sure who?

We live in an old board school which the previous owners had called Truants. We call it no. 17!!

e.g.The Old Rectory, Railway Cuttings?

My husband's late gran was a wonderful woman in very many ways, but she was a dreadful snob and once told me that her son (my father in law) had never had to live in a house that had a number! (I for her) My in laws' last three homes have been Rose Cottage, April Cottage and now Pine Cottage - very confusing.
When I'm asked on the phone for the number of my house I am often self-conscious about the fact that it hasn't one, just a name, and I usually make some kind of disparaging remark along the lines of, "it sounds much posher than it is". I wonder if it's some kind of inverted snobbery on my behalf, or just not wanting to give a false impression.