Giving your house a name.

Our house has a name but it also has a number so no-one ever uses the name.

When we lived in France, our neighbours called our house after us, so we lived in 'La Maison Blanche' (the White House) - I'll never live anywhere so posh again!

my MIL's GGF built a house and called it Illsington Cottage ,it was only recently we discovered he had been born and grown up in Illsington in Devon and we now are in contact with members of the family who lived there for generations .We've always lived in houses with numbers ,I'm likely to want to change a name when I get fed up with it.

When he retired, my husband suggested we should call our house Dunvicarin. Guess what he was in a former life! We didn’t, and just have a number.

Houses usually have names when they are in roads without numbers. Not uncommon in rural areas and even in some villages.

We once bought a house with a name. It was called 'The Manse' because it had once been owned by the Baptists, or some other denomination as the house for their minister.

I confess as the house had a perfectly good number, we didn't bother with the name. We didn't mention it when we sold it, so I expect whoever lives there now has no idea that theirhouse once had a name.

Ilsington! I know it

On a recent very convoluted trip on hospital transport we passed a small cottage called Crackbone Cottage, it conjured up some interesting visions.

I live in a residential road of about 200 houses. 95% have numbers of course....naming a house in this situation is nonesense. My sisters house in a country lane in Chichester has a name ....all the houses are named.. ..as they have no numbers oddly.

Our house has a name, but no number. There are two houses built on a plot that once held only one, which had a name and a number. When the two houses were built, the number would have had to have been * and *A, which apparently no-one wanted. It's created a few problems over the years, not least with satnav.

My favourite house name was used by one of Terry Wogan's TOGs - Atlantic View Norwich. Always made me laugh ...

We live in a block of flats which is called The Chestnuts.

PECS
I shall be looking up Winter Lane in Haslemere as it is fairly near where I live, however, I doubt it's a true address as I've never heard of it but I gather you must be familiar with the area.

Actually PECS I Googled Winter Lane and lo and behold there is a Winter Hill, Church Lane, Haslemere. Fancy you getting close to that address.
A Ouija board...maybe? ?

Mine is called Little Court but it’s not at all grand so don’t know why someone called it that!

Jalima it looks lovely from the photographs they've sent us.They were all born in the Old Post Office building a beautiful thatched cottage .Apparently anyone with the family name anywhere world wide is related as the name has its foundation there .

We have a name and that's cos we live in the countryside and so we don't have street names.

Our house was almost derelict when we bought it and was built in 1860, we decided Cobweb Corner was appropriate.

I hope you're not enticing any flies into your web GillyEB

wolfie1

With respect. There are many houses on lanes, cul-de-sacs, and streets in the countryside.
If you're in the sticks, that's a whole different ball game.

Our small village (more of a hamlet, does anyone call them that these days) only has house names and the lane has no name at all. Our house was named by the lady who lived here in the 60's and before that it was known as 'Four Ways' as it stands near what used to be a crossroad (it's a roundabout now!)

My parents had their house built when they got married in 1932 and called it Laurene which was a mixture of their two names. Our current house is on a corner and was called with a singular lack of imagination - guess what - Corner House! We didn’t realise it had a name at all, until after a couple of years, I found a name board under the hedge which I was removing. In the mean time we had christened it Casa Rana (Frog House in Spanish) as there is a pond in the back garden with lots of frogs ( I love frogs!) and I taught Spanish before I retired. We had a ceramic name plate made by a local potter with two frogs sitting by a pond on it and I also bought a hanging basket bracket to go by the front door, also with two frogs on it!.

Just be careful, all.
Your info may be broadcast elsewhere!

Our suburban semi in an ordinary street was built in 1938, and has a name that is on the deeds of the house and is carved on a stone plaque by the front door (although pretty well illegible). The houses were built in bits and bobs between 1938 and the early 1950s and no other houses have names so I've no idea why ours was given one. I've just started putting it on my emails but not yet on hand written letters. It's never really been used by us or by my grandparents who owned the house before us and no correspondence that we receive bears it.

I lived in The Old Manse for 8 years; then a series of numbers until I came to my present dwelling.
I wanted to call it Honeysuckle Cottage after my Auntie Minnie's home where I spent to many happy hours. In fact I made a ceramic name plate but Honeysuckle is regarded as a noxious weed here so does not have the same pleasant connotations.

As I have wonderful roses across the front and sides of my wee house, maybe Rose Cottage would be better?

I think I may give my flat a name.. just for fun.
I might make a plaque and hang it outside.

Flat Holm?