Has your house got a name

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.

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.

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

Just echoing FarNorth

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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(.

Just a number, but years ago I lived in a lovely place where it was just names on houses. My bungalow was a called after a little village in Wales and we actually drove there one Sunday to find it.

I was quite excited to see the original deeds when I bought my bungalow, and originally it was called 'Lodore'. I thought it had romantic connotations until I researched it - it's from Lodore Street, in Poplar! Obviously wanted to make tribute to their cockney roots

FarNorth

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

Same here. The regular people are ok but everyone else curses it because of course unlike numbers you have no way of knowing whereabouts on the road a house with a name is - and it's a long road

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?

A friend of mine called her house COBWEBS (Currently Owned By Woolich Equitable Building Society). If mine had that name it would be a description of its contents!

All the houses on my street just have names; no numbers at all. The postman knows where we all are but it’s hellish for courier delivery drivers!

No, ours doesn't, although it's been called Mad House a few times. I think houses have to be 'born' with names, not just given them by people who come to live in them. The house I was born in was named for the architect who designed and built it. By chance it was the same as a character in the Robin Hood stories and I always loved it.

By law in Denmark all properties have a number, or rather two, the one is the street number and it must be displayed where it can be seen from the street, the other the official designation in the Land Registry. This is only used on offical documents, mainly when buying or selling property. A property can consist of more than one lot in the Land Registry so you have two or more Land Reigistry numbers.

So basically only large estates, houses built between about 1890 and 1920 and meant to show off the owners' wealth and perhaps some very old farms have names.

I don't think anyone would find it pretentious if you named a house, but they might well think it a little odd.

My previous house was called Rivendell from Tolkien books

Our old holiday house was called The Abbey because it was built from bits of an old church. Sadly we had to knock it down and rebuild because it fell apart. Used to be fun picking mushrooms and chasing possums from inside the house.

I agree with Madeleine35. As a retired police officer who worked a country beat I would often waste valuable minutes getting to a 999 call because we couldn’t find the property in the pitch black. Many places were down tracks off country lanes with no lighting. Place names are OK as long as there is a clear sign. I always advised white signs with black writing so it’s easy to spot the sign and solar lighting is good. If calling the emergency services there is an app called ‘what3words’. What3words is an easy way to identify precise locations. Every 3m square has been given a unique combination of three words: a what3words address. Give the three words to the 999 control room or tradesmen trying to find your house if it is well hidden and it gets them right to your door. Free and easy to use. May be the difference between life and death! Worked well for us when we had to call an ambulance as our house is well hidden away behind shops and courtyards in a seaside town.

Our place doesn't have a name, but often threatened to call it "Arf Dun", because when my DH was alive, no job was ever finished completely!

We lived in a house with a nice name, but we were then given numbers, which I was slightly peeved about at the time. What a nightmare for postpeople though, especially before post codes.

I passed a very grand house the other day called The Slum.

I live in a bungalow which was built as an infill on the site of an old chapel so our number is 2B and as a bit of fun I called it Aughnott.

Our house has a number, think it is a tad OTT to actually give it a name.
Now we are moving to Cornwall next year and our new house will need a "name " due to simply no numbers within the plot area and beyond !
Still thinking .............