Has your house got a name

The Badgers - we are known as Nanny and Grandpa Badger .

DD 1 has a house name, used by previous owners, but she only uses the number. DD2 had a house name, no number, when she lived in Orkney and we have friends with house names but as has been said here they are all village houses.

Best name I know is "Isnorin" on a bungalow I used to drive past on my way to work. Said in a very Yorkshire accent it's "He's Not In" :-)

My grandparents called their house Ardlui as this was the furthest point they reached on their honeymoon. 100 years later the house (a very modest home) is still called that.

Before I was born my parents moved into a house no. 5 and my mother wanted to call it Chanel, but my father wouldn't let her.

Ours was called ‘Lloret’ as the previous owners got married in lloret de mar. So romantic.

My narrow boat home is called Circle of Peace

My Mum and I live in the same road and they both have names. My house was built in the grounds of a large house in t fifties and the owners of that house (who weren't when mine was built) still refer to our house being in their grounds!

only problem with house names , no numbers, can be difficulty in finding places easily especially in darker days. I used to do hospital car service and you may be in an area where sat nav does not work, so it is good idea to have a light above name or number so that it is easy to see for any newcomers, also helpful to have a light on should you have called emergency service , or doctor etc as it is easy to pick out the light from a distance however dark the road

When we moved into a cottage, many years ago with my five cats, I wanted to call it The Cathouse. My ex partner refused. He had NO sense of humour! Since then I've ditched him and moved, but my new house is numbered.

Th name of my house is the same as the first house built on the site in the eighteenth century.I did a lot of research to find out who were the first owners. Very interesting and was able to speak in person to a descendant.

Where I used to live houses werenumbered but some residents took to naming their house. Few doors down named their house Dunpayin once they had paid their mortgage off.

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

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

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 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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

Callistemon So is ours .

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.

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.