Has your house got a name

Ours has but we don't use it.

Ours has and we get quizzical looks and a question.
There’s nothing unusual about the two words but it’s not a name you’d normally pick for a house. MrMuse picked it way before I moved in with him 7 years ago.

I live in the countryside where all houses have names, no numbers except for an occasional little group of council houses.

If you have numbers, names are a bit naff, like personalised number plates, but fun.
I call mine various names when writing letters as the mood takes me, Windy Way, Sunnyside etc.

I live on an estate so names seem pretentious but I like the idea if houses are individual styles and set a little way apart.
I would love “?cottage” or “ the old Rectory” if I could afford such a property.

The wonderful Dorothy Parker called her house "The Rising Gorge".

It did have when my Nan lived in it but I ve never used it

Our last one was Kerralenta which was a combination of our daughters’ names and I still have the sign somewhere but they had mostly left home when we moved here so I didn’t bother.

Names are not ‘naff, not on older properties that had names long before numbers were used, especially in rural areas.

But yes, seems a bit pointless naming a modern property when they are numbered from the word go.

The houses I grew up in all had names, but not the houses I’ve had as an adult. I wish they had, but if you add one now it does look pretentious. That said, the little house I lived in from the ages of five until seven was called Kosy Kot when my parents bought it. That had to be changed pronto! My parents, called it Newthorpe, a translation of Neudorf, a village in Germany that they liked. We then moved to the more decorous (but boring) The Beeches, where I lived the rest of my childhood. It had large copper beech trees in the garden.

My elder son and my brother both live in roads where there are no numbers, so their houses had their names (luckily nice ones) when they bought them. I’m a bit envious.

Not long ago I went back to look at The Beeches. The house was still there, but the name had gone, along with most of the other house names in the road, which had been widened, so the gates bearing the names had gone. Sad, I thought. Numbers are so much less imaginative.

My Mum named our house "Wit's End" as she said that's how she felt a lot of the time when living there!
I call my homes "Frogs" as I love frogs.

I’ve only lived in one house with a name, Yew Tree Cottage, some years ago.
It’s harder sometimes for people to find a named house, assuming those numbered are done so logically, not always the case!

Our house is an old school and was called Truants when we bought it. We don't use the name just the number.

Our house has a model of a cars name. We don't use it.

I spent most of my childhood living in various pubs as my parents were inn keepers. Each pub had a story to tell, reflected in their names. Before the age of 7 I lived over the cafe my parents ran which carried the family name above the door.
When I married, I quite fancied giving our house a name but DH wasn't keen.

The vast majority of the houses in our village have names with no numbers . The numbered houses are in the little closes that have sprung up in recent years . Old buildings from businesses of bygone days that were demolished to make way for housing.

Our old house was called 'Threeways' and our current one was 'La Cure' (The Vicarage) for 4.5 centuries, and the name will always stick.

Very few houses in our little village have numbers. Ours only has a name.

We live down a long country lane. No numbers. Our house name is Welsh for Glebe House.
My mother owned a little pebble dashed cottage in a seaside village. When she went in to a home we rented it out to help with fees. The holiday letting agent told us to give it a name so that it sounded more attractive. We had a plate made Pebble-Cottage.
NB dash not hyphen.

I lived at number 13 while growing up. Since marrying, all 3 houses we have lived in had names, only one also had a number.
In the first village we lived in, there was a house called "Laughing Stock". Needless to say, when it was sold the new owners promptly changed it.

kittylester

Our house is an old school and was called Truants when we bought it. We don't use the name just the number.

I think Truants is a marvellous name. I’d use it, I suppose it would take a bit of explaining, though.

I read about a house the owners called Thistledew. A poetic version of This’ll Do.

Yes, my house has a lovely name. Inherited, not personally chosen. I used to use it when answering the phone and that helped to filter out the unwanted calls. Personal ones were attuned and responded accordingly. Long before the current ability of phones to recognise callers, of course.

Our house has a name which it was given by the previous owners, a family who lived here for over 50 years. I love the name and the connection with the people who went before us.

The name sign was obviously made by one of the family. When we moved it it was in a bad state so we refurbished it and now it has pride of place.

A neighbour is a retired policeman and has called his house Duncoppering.