Giving your house a name.

Our last house only had a name, none of the houses in the village had numbers. When we moved a number only seemed a bit, well plain I suppose, so we decided to call it after a house/area on a Scottish island which we loved. Don’t always use it though ...

Our house has a name and a number, it was built after the existing houses in the road were built so has an 'A' after the number, I guess the people who first bought the house thought they would prefer a name. I quite like having a name and wish we could just have that and not a number too as having both seems a bit excessive

We call our house INTWENI.
We tell people that it is Zulu for "The house between the watering holes", (Think 'inbetween') as it is situated 300 yards from a pub at the front, and half a mile from another pub at the back.
Our neighbour calls his "LLAMEDOS". People think it is Welsh, but actually it is "Sod Em All", written backwards.

In our small lane, all of the houses have names as well as numbers. Ours is Tresco.. Flora Robson lived in this one

Just after I moved into my house a marketing letter came through the door addressed to The Occupier, 'Corner Cottage', with the correct street name and number following. I mentioned it to my daughter in law, remarking that it must be the original name of the house, as it is on a corner. I loved it and started to use it in my address. Next birthday I was given a lovely wooden box of plants with 'Corner Cottage' stencilled on it. It wasn't until I got another of these marketing letters that I realised the post code wasn't mine at all - it was for the next village! I've gradually dropped it from my address .

Oh mamamags my cousin lives in a house called Tresco too!

I live in a house with a name but only because I'm in a village which has no street numbers, all properties are named. I wouldn't name a house which had a number.

I love houses that have names.

Doing a home visit to a bungalow called 'Thirdown' a few years ago I queried the origin of the name. They moved in and expecting deliveries kept having to say 'it's the third one down'. Built in the 1930's I'd guess.

My parents moved to road that had not been numbered at that point so they have the house a name. It was useful later because having been "plot 4" the council decided to start numbering at the other end.

Our current house used to be called St Elmo when it was built in 1910, again before the street was numbered. One day I will get a house number plaque which allows me to have the name on as well.

Mine is just called home ?

We live in a small village. Our house name is almost identical to that of another in the village which is virtually in the same lane. Much confusion with correspondence at times - we have got to know the other couple quite well - but worst of all is when coal is delivered to the wrong house! Fortunately we no longer use coal, much to the coal man's great relief. We had thought about changing the name of the house but the previous owner had made a beautiful rustic name plate from beach finds.

Nearly every house in our village has a name, and we are about to name ours.

When we bought the house there was a lovely little cat living here which we adopted, sadly she's gone now. So we're going to use her name. It will just be a little plaque by the front door, not part of the official address, but I may add it to my correspondence etc.

When walking around the village I try to guess how some of the house names originated; a lot are flower names, some are foreign words or combinations of christian names, or 'The Old School House/Bakery/Forge' etc. Our postman often mentions houses by name, so they do notice them, not just the road numbers. It seems to be a very English custom to name houses and more often found in rural areas than in towns/cities.

I'm in a village so most houses have names not numbers. Mine has a name because there's no numbering system in the lane. Must be a nightmare being a new postie!

Happy
There's nearly always an Old Post Office, Old Forge, Old Bakery, Old Malthouse and Old Police House!

I grew up in a very spread out village, most houses only have a name, ours was * Cottage & opposite was * Farm reflecting the area of the village we lived in.

DM moved nearly 40 years ago to a rebuilt bungalow in another part of the village, her house has a name too. DM was born in the village, her DPs lived at Station House next to the Station

Our house was named when it was built many years ago ...... As do all the other houses in our road.

We always refer to it by name if, for example, saying where we will be if meeting family etc.
What seemed very pretentious to me when we bought this house, now seems totally normal and appropriate. It's called 'Bella Vista', the perfect name since the views are absolutely beautiful on all sides.

Our house only has a name and no number. As did our last house. With the last house I was always saying next door to No 22. Now all of the houses on our little road have names. When we moved in, it was a name that I disliked intensely. We have since renamed it. Very easy to do, although a few cards got lost in the first couple of weeks and it can take a while for all of the automated address systems to catch up. But now it's all fine and I'm very glad we did. We were inspired by Downton, so called it Upton.

We live in a hamlet of a dozen properties, no numbers. We have lived in four different homes in this part of Wales each one beginning with Ty, which means house in Welsh, so we are always tongue tripping to find the name of our current house.

My parents lived in a street of houses with names such as Ersanmine and Dunroamin.

It seemed pretentious to give a name to a house on an estate, but we have twice had to do this when no numbers were given. Move on a couple of years and all were numbered, so we just dropped the name. Another one had a name which meant nothing to us, so we just changed it. Didn't do any registering and weren't aware that we had to!

I can remember many of the names of the houses in the road I grew up in: Tithebarn, Meadowside, Five Oaks, The Bield. I didn’t find out what The Bield meant until I could google it. It’s a Scottish word for shelter. Nearby there was a house called Lamorna, which I thought sounded lovely. As a child I didn’t know it was a place in Cornwall.

I think the best funny one I’ve heard of of is Thistledew (This’ll do).

We have so far lived in five houses all of which had names. First came 'Derringstone' a Victorian terraced, followed by The Forge House, originally a dairy farm but became in the mid 1800's a blacksmith's forge, hence the name. Next was Holly House with not a strip of holly in sight ( holly was soon planted)! Last but my no means least came 'The Barn' which need no explanation.

Near to where we live is a road called Oyster Lane. About half way down is a very attractive, large bungalow called “The Pearl”, how very nice to live in The Pearl, Oyster Lane!

I lived for a short while in a 200-year old farmhouse which had a name (Gillfoot House) but no street number. Could sometimes cause problems such as trying to open a store card if they couldn't find the address and getting the electricity changed to domestic as they still had it down as a farm many years after it was just a family home.

Conni7 you do if the name is to be the official postal address. If it is added to a numbered house then you do not need to. e,g Holly House, 5 Winter Lane, Haslemere, Surrey