Has your house got a name

I have a giant metal spider on a web up in the corner of the eaves of the house and wanted to call the house 'Cobwebs' but I've never got round to getting a sign.

Grandma70s, i agree but the people prior to us had the house repossessed and were in loads of debt which caused us lots of problems initially so we were really glad to establish a different address.

Ours has - it's etched into the semi circle glass window above the front door. It's been called that ever since it was built in Victorian times.

Yes our is also a Victorian house with a name above the front door. We tend not to use it unless we are expecting a delivery as it is more visible than the number.

No, but one of my sons refers to it as The Clubhouse, which was due to our open-door casual approach to anyone coming round. When my 2 sons were growing up, we had all their friends here, for tea, lunch, breakfast, anything.

I love house names.

Yes, mine is an Edwardian house and was named when it was built. Not having a number used to be a bit of a pain, but now with GPS and t'interweb it's not such a faff for people to find us.

My daughter lives in a huge Victorian house. Last week she went to a local history talk about the doctor for whom her house is named and who used to run his surgery there. She met his elderly grandchildren who remembered visiting and playing games in the garden and was able to see photo's of the house dating from Victorian times.

pinkcakes our house was on the way home from school so was quite often full of large boys and giggly girls. It was also on the way home from town and we quite often woke up to slightly hung over boys who either couldn't, or preferred not, to go all the way home.

Once we woke up to find a friend of DS1 (who was away!!) fast asleep on the sofa as he knew where we kept the key and didn't fancy the walk to the top of the hill.

Yes

Ours is Welsh and named after a tree in the garden.
No-one ever uses the name.

Yes, we have lived in quite a few named houses over the years, some rather better names than others!
The nicer names were in Cornish.

Although it is never used, when we moved into this house we had a nameplate made. As I said I didn’t intend to move again, I though ‘Thassit’ seemed appropriate.

Callistemon So is ours .

The nicer names were in Cornish
A Cornish neighbour from many years ago thought our Welsh house name was Cornish.

The languages are similar of course.

I live at xxxx Farm. (It isn't really a farm) I doubt it ever had a number. Our previous house was named by the people we bought it from. We kept the name, and so have the people we sold it to. Previous to that it's always been houses with numbers.

I can't say I'm fussed either way, name or number, as long as the post and parcels arrive!

Yep, but mostly I’ve lived in the countryside - on farms - where most houses have names not number. Would be hard to give a number to the one house on the hill! So it’s been Goulton Grange, Potto Hill, Borrans Hill, Salmon Hall, (sounds grand but only part of it !) Piglets Place (a converted stone piggery - beautiful though it maybe doesn’t sound it ) and here I am at Barn End - soon to move to another house with a name. I’ve only lived in 3 places with numbers, all in towns.

My cottage was in a tiny village in the middle of nowhere so we all had names for our houses.

When we built our house, it had to be given a name, as there was no numbering system. We are very unimaginative so we called it The New House. I wasn't too concerned about it aging, as a short way away is the New Bridge, built 150 years ago.

Our house does have the a name, with a name plate.. But too rude to put on here… ?

Our house is a Victorian house, built 147 years and yes it does have a name. It has never had a number.

Ours doesn’t. A name can often tell you a lot about an older property’s history.

I was amused that a house near here that is number 13 suddenly acquired a plaque with a name on it when the previous owners put it up for sale. The new owners removed it after a few months.

My previous home was a combination of mine and hubby first name , and my present home has a name only , no numbers on our road at all

My block of 20 flats has a name, rather than a number and it is a real pain for delivery drivers etc trying to find the place. It is not far from the High St, so not rural at all. On top of that, there are locked iron gates at the entrance on the street given as the address, with no bell-access-button system and main access is from a car park at the rear which is on another street entirely!! I frequently end of on convoluted phone calls from delivery drivers!

My house has got a name - but I can't repeat it here (I named it - and it's not nice).

Ours has a name but no number. New posties must find our village a nightmare.