House Names...

Still pondering ,thank you everyone x

My late uncle fought in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) during the war. He was based in a lovely town called Kurunegala. This was the name he chose for his bungalow when he retired from the fire service.
The house we had before this one was called Château Roc. We didn't name it, the previous owners did. Their name was Rocca.

I think it was a character in a Flann O'Brien novel who was so proud of his huge lawn that, in Irish Gaelic, he named his house 'Big Lawn' - 'Lawn Mhor' pronounced 'mower' ...

We once lived in a very old cottage by the sea in Devon ans it was called "Birds nest cottage" everyone always went ahhhhhh when they heard it's name

My ex was always moaning about my lack of domestic skills so I always wanted to call our house The Hovel . His mum gave me a wall plaque once as a gift which said 'Bless This Mess'#thinktheyweretryingtotellmesomething

can you not use a feature of the house, I would call mine 'the pines' as its surrounded by dense leylandii, lol. A friend calls hers 'chimneys' for obvious reasons.
I haven't named my house as its ex council and no one else has named their house in my street.

I heard of someone who called the house Sycamoving - might be suitable for you

As you are ex-forces why not name it after the posting you were happiest?

There`s a house not far from us named Thistledown Cottage, sounds very romantic, but it`s a tatty little old mid terraced on the main road! A bit further along the river bank is a bungalow called Rotorua, I often wonder if they have a NZ connection.

Dunroamin
Costabom

I always remember Martin, Ever Decreasing Circles, lived at Brookes Mead.

What about Bella Pais which roughly translated is lovely peace.

Bella Pais = Beautiful Country

Beautiful peace = Bella paz (?)

This house naming could range from being completely pretentious to totally naff.
By my front garden planting I could be pretentious and call my house "Corylous Grange." or Cottage (neither of which suits a close of 30 1980s houses.)

Or naff like a combination of shortened forenames like Casa DougAnn.

I would go with how the local houses are named or numbered. Something like Hazel Cottage does sound cosy.

I do like the idea of the Coronation street house being named "The Old Rectory".

Don't make the mistake of naming it after something that you're then stuck with. 'Green Gates' or 'Green Gables' are popular names, but I always think, what if you want to change the colour of the gates? . I once came across a house called 'The Red House' - all the doors and window frames were painted red. And that is the way they'll have to stay.
I cannot abide those dreadful gimmicky names like Dunroamin, Erzanmine, Costafortune and so on. We don't have a house name, but if we did it would be unpretentious, a name that meant something to us, or perhaps the name of a flower or tree that we have in our garden.

We used to have a house name, but after years of having to spell it regularly (and even then it was frequently misspelt, but fortunately the postie was good at working it out), it was quite a relief to move into a house with just a number!

I always think it is slightly pretentious to give a house a name if it has a number. We once bought a house with a name and a number and promptly dropped the name and took the nameplate down. If you live in rural area where houses do not have numbers, then obviously a name is necessary.

I would want to call ours Estuary View. One small problem......there's a flippin great concrete sea defense blocking the view

Ninathenana how about "sea wall view"?

Call it Nigel.
Or Dave.
Mine's called 3.

not exactly helpful?

not quiet got the same ring to it.

^ Nellie

Living in Cornwall we get a fair few houses with Cornish names. There's an end of terrace in the next village called 'Chy Hager', which means 'Ugly House'! (It's not that bad LOL)
'Sea View' would be 'Gwel an Mor', one appropriate to our house would be 'An Dyji'...small house.

Our Cornish house ( years ago) was called Kel Gover ( hidden stream).