Has your house got a name

Yes "Church view" because l live opposite our village church and have a lovely view of it.!

When married the first time DH1 and I bought a lovely old house in a Fife village with no name or number, just addressed The Square, Village name. We reckoned it was a beautiful house and needed a name so chose a name from the history of the clan we belonged to.
I liked using the name but now we’re no longer there I often wonder if other owners have kept it in use.

When my second husband and I moved into a house in Roos, East Yorkshire, it was called Brigadoon. Couldn't live with that name, so asked my friends for suggestions. The best one was "Kanga".

My house was called House Martins because the builder found a nest of them in the garage of the building.

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Ours has, A friend of mine with a great sense of humour called his SEA VIEW he is surrounded by fields, ??

I know a house called Sea View which looks straight at a brick wall.

When I lived in a small town in an affluent area of the Home Counties we called our house ‘Tynehyce’ - it was amusing getting the different reactions of people who called round!
I am now in a house that is named on the OS map so we stick with that

We named ours 'Hakuna Matata' during last year during lockdown. And now we have managed to get the name made, and put it on the house wall.

We had to be positive!

I live in a small village where all the houses are named. The house we bought 4 years ago is a pretty ordinary 3 bedroomed house but has a very pretentious name. I always think that visitors arriving for the first time must be expecting something very grand and are probably disappointed. I always feel the need to say it wasn't us that named it.

maddy47 My parents house in South Africa was named 'Brigadoon'! The house had a lovely view from a hillside looking down into the the valley, and towards the sea on one side.

My house has a name as it is out in the countryside.A friend once sent a card to me but couldn't remember the house name so addressed it to The Posh House on the Hill, xxxxxxx (nearest village which is a couple of miles away). It made me laugh as it isn't posh just a bit different. Friends who run a greyhound rescue charity called their house Dunrunnin and it is engraved on metal greyhound.

We live on an old medieval estate where all the houses have traditional names the old barn, the coach house, the lodge, the farm house the old stables etc. It’s very tricky for delivery drivers to find the correct house!

We moved into a village house called Myholme which we didn’t like. Eventually, after months of discussing alternatives we called it Common View because we did face the village common and we felt, compared to the rest of our neighbours, we were quite common!

Having spent my working life as a community nurse, I agree with those who say it can be a nightmare finding houses by name alone. That's why, when I applied to the local authority for our official address, I asked for a number - but they said 'not possible' - the road was such a mish-mash. But the name of our house is clear, and lit at night.

Having said that, I didn't work in rural areas, only urban where most houses are numbered. However, 2 estates I worked on had been laid out from a footpath point of view. So as you walked down the path, the houses were conventionally numbered. But if you drove in (as emergency, medical & nursing services normally would) you approached the houses from the back, so each side of the road had a different name, and the odd numbers of, say Rose Walk, were nowhere near the even numbers.

I am enjoying hearing about all these house names.

When I was a young teen I would pass a house called 'Iniquity' My mum tried to explain it to me! ??

The first house DH1 and I bought was Bay View and was nowhere near the sea. It has bay windows and overlooked ploughed fields. So we renamed it Holywell Cottage after the road my ex lived in during his last year at Oxford and had very happy memories.

My favourite house I bought with DH2, and was Waterfarm Cottage, Coleman's Hatch which I thought was a wonderful address and deep in the woods. Another with him was Mill House complete with ancient mill stones, on the edge of a lake belonging to a very grand house often seen in films.

Now with DH3 our address is just the hamlet. Brits find it strange that our address is just three lines ,including France. The post code in line 2 covers miles but as this is a very underpopulated area the posters know us all.

I am all for numbers, where they exist. names are for where they don't.

I have to say that I didn't realise that house names were 'posh' as in my childhood, they were mostly reserved for the small villages & hamlets, which in those days, mostly housed folk who worked in agriculture, on the railway or canal, and were not all posh.
Now of course, villages in many parts of the country are 'desirable' and it makes me smile when I hear talk of the children going to a 'village school'. In my childhood we felt sorry for the 'village children' as their schools weren't as good!
In my village, there are still a good many folk who bought their houses here (with names) when they were cheaper than the then more desirable market town.

madelaine45. I agree about having easy to read, well-lit numbers and names. I helped out our local newsagent for a while, and occasionally went out to deliver newspapers. Trying to pick out house numbers in the early morning darkness was very difficult, often having to spot a large readable number and count along the row to find the one I wanted.
Trying to find the right house on a busy road can be particularly hazardous.
Maybe we should have a law making everyone display a large clear house number/name at the kerbline. They have this where my DD lives, in Australia, plus a compulsory free-standing letterbox so that the Postie can whizz in and out, on his little motorised bike, in seconds. Not so practical with some of our houses though.

“The lower classes give their house a name instead of a number to prove it isn’t council” Jilly Cooper, ‘Class’, 1979.
We can have both name and number if we wish, can’t we?
Apart from M0nica’s Law?

We have a house number, but our affectionate name for it is “Windy Corner”.
It’s related to the weather - not the state of the folks who live inside !

Hazel93. If you are 'getting on a bit', and still have all your marbles, "Still Thinking" isn't a bad name for your house! ?

Some folks can be pretty thoughtless in naming a house, I know of a house called Smutty Croft.
Our house was named after a tree which fell down some years ago we have numerous other types of trees in the garden so the name seems rather odd now.
Our road also has no name and sat nav only covers part of the area and then you lose phone signal so it can be a nightmare as drivers often don’t listen to instructions to phone from the nearest village that does have a signal.
We have a three word identification for the property which would help if delivery drivers had access to the app.

Yes we do, our home is hidden in the grounds of a small 'stately home type place, numbers would mean nothing as we are all scattered about. So yes we use the name the house came with which is a derivative of the Scottish for stream...

Never had an official house name but extended family and family always called our last house after my OHs name with villa on the end e.g. Royvilla. This house is nicknamed after a town in a popular film

My sister in Yorkshire is as Yorkshire as you can get, over their front door is a sign which says "R OUSE", my daughters, not having been raised in the county, just didn`t get it!