Has your house got a name

No house name here but when I was a child we had neighbours who had christened their house Nota Bene (with English pronunciation Not a bean(.

A house in our village was called : The last straw!

We've only lived in houses with numbers because they were in a town. When we moved here we discovered nearly every house in the village has a name. There are several with the same name. Fortunately most houses have numbers too, demanded by Royal Mail. We intended to name our house but couldn't agree on a name so after 10 years it is still nameless! This post has got me thinking about it again.

It is called Herne Lodge, set in a valley surrounded by woodland I thought that a tribute to Herne the Hunter would be good, I like a bit of folklore and supernatural.

Live in a village with no house numbers on our lane. Unfortunately our house has somehow ended up with two different spellings of the house name. I prefer the '****mhor' to the '****more' spelling but the latter is the one that pops up on the Internet as our address so gradually that has become the one we use for deliveries etc. Shame. Don't know how delivery drivers manage to find us as we still have the original spelling on the gate and in the glass above the front door

It was a real struggle to buy our first house and I was always tempted to call it FUJIMAR, which stands for F**k You Jack I’m All Right. Never did though.

Just echoing FarNorth

No numbers in our road at all so we only have names! only a short council houses road has numbers.

Happyme you can correct your address with Royal Mail and it will eventually filter through to the online address lists.
I did this for a small but irritating (to me) spelling mistake in my address.

www.royalmail.com/personal/receiving-mail/update-your-address

I asked all the grandchildren to put a name in and then I drew one out and it was Magic Madness so I had the plaque made with exactly that. Sitting proudly on the front wall.

grannyactivist

I loved my husband's Gran to pieces, but she was cast in the mould of Hyacinth Bucket and in some ways was a terrible snob. In a rather boastful way she once said to me, "Did you know my son (my very modest father-in-law) has never had to live in a house with a number?

Priceless!

Very Hyacinth Bucket.
Did your GMIL have a sister called Violet? She's the one with the Mercedes, swimming pool, and room for a pony.

Mine is called lakeside i live on a lake. Are you supposed to register the name i just put it on my new plague bit cheeky i guess im in uk

Yes we have a name as do the other 6 houses along our road. None of them has a number but postman , police etc have no problem finding us. As far as we know it has never had a number ( built in the 1930s)

No name to the road or numbers so we rely on the house name which means nothing to us but did to the people before us. We should have changed when we moved in!!!!

I live in a small village, and the house we bought only has a name - Tournaig. There is no road or street name, but I was told recently that the name of the street was The High Road (it leads uphill - to a farm).
The official address (as per the deeds) is just the house name, followed by the village name.

We live on a farm with an ancient name comprising of 2 words. It's a nightmare to spell as they're old English words & it very often gets spelt wrong. It means Cottage in the water meadows, apparently. I love it as it's unique but very often wish, when I'm spelling it over the phone to the same person for the 3rd time after trying the NATO alphabet & failing "no sorry, I don't know that" from the hapless individualat the other end, , that we lived at Top Farm, Manor Farm, North farm....!!

My husband was a taxi driver before he retired. He often complained to me about the time wasted by trying to find houses without numbers, particularly at night. Driving up and down country lanes in search of the Old Rectory or Whitegate Farm or something similar infuriated him.

I've never lived in a house with a name but I like the name of the home of the gods in the Terry Pratchett books. Other gods may live in heaven or Olympus or Valhalla, but the Discworld gods reside at Dunmanifestin. It's a gated community.

I grew up in a house called “Home”. Talk about naff!

I viewed an old flint cottage which was in the grounds of a converted school. It was called “Nit nurse Cottage”. I didn’t buy the house in the end, but if I had I would have kept the name. Part of its history!

As others have said, what3words is commonly used now by delivery people and if you live somewhere hard to locate you should find your three words and quote them to anyone who needs to find you. Saves people wasting time and getting frustrated.

You can also send your precise location to WhatsApp users by clicking on the paperclip and 'location'.

Our house was called Oak View when we moved and also had a number. We dropped the name as there now is not a single Oak tree in view. Lots of trees but no Oak trees. The thought of having to explain to people that we didn't name it and that we had no idea where the oak tree was meant we dropped it the day we moved in.

Our house does have a name but we don't use it. We only know as it was on the deeds when we bought it, and all the houses/bungalows, which were built in the 1930s, were given a name not a number. As more were build they all have numbers now so we don't use the name, but it's nice to know a bit of its history.

I live in the US and I love the idea of naming our home! I think maybe Hamlin Hill. Also, I was talking with a lady who works at a big box store near my home and noticed her British accent and she is from the UK. We started talking and we both love George Clarke’s shows and neither of us have tv’s !

Mine does but we don't use it as the tree for which the house was named was cut down years before we bought the house.

Our 1938 semi has a name - it's on the deeds of the house and carved (rather illegibly now) on a stone plaque on the wall next to the front door. No other house along here in an ordinary street of ordinary semis has a name so it's rather curious. I have very recently started using it, not sure why!

I know some people who have named their house "Mother in law's view"