Has your house got a name

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

Yes

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, 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.

I love house names.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Our house has a name which it was given by the previous owners, a family who lived here for over 50 years. I love the name and the connection with the people who went before us.

The name sign was obviously made by one of the family. When we moved it it was in a bad state so we refurbished it and now it has pride of place.

A neighbour is a retired policeman and has called his house Duncoppering.

Yes, my house has a lovely name. Inherited, not personally chosen. I used to use it when answering the phone and that helped to filter out the unwanted calls. Personal ones were attuned and responded accordingly. Long before the current ability of phones to recognise callers, of course.

I read about a house the owners called Thistledew. A poetic version of This’ll Do.

kittylester

Our house is an old school and was called Truants when we bought it. We don't use the name just the number.

I think Truants is a marvellous name. I’d use it, I suppose it would take a bit of explaining, though.

I lived at number 13 while growing up. Since marrying, all 3 houses we have lived in had names, only one also had a number.
In the first village we lived in, there was a house called "Laughing Stock". Needless to say, when it was sold the new owners promptly changed it.

We live down a long country lane. No numbers. Our house name is Welsh for Glebe House.
My mother owned a little pebble dashed cottage in a seaside village. When she went in to a home we rented it out to help with fees. The holiday letting agent told us to give it a name so that it sounded more attractive. We had a plate made Pebble-Cottage.
NB dash not hyphen.

Very few houses in our little village have numbers. Ours only has a name.

Our old house was called 'Threeways' and our current one was 'La Cure' (The Vicarage) for 4.5 centuries, and the name will always stick.

The vast majority of the houses in our village have names with no numbers . The numbered houses are in the little closes that have sprung up in recent years . Old buildings from businesses of bygone days that were demolished to make way for housing.

I spent most of my childhood living in various pubs as my parents were inn keepers. Each pub had a story to tell, reflected in their names. Before the age of 7 I lived over the cafe my parents ran which carried the family name above the door.
When I married, I quite fancied giving our house a name but DH wasn't keen.

Our house has a model of a cars name. We don't use it.

Our house is an old school and was called Truants when we bought it. We don't use the name just the number.

I’ve only lived in one house with a name, Yew Tree Cottage, some years ago.
It’s harder sometimes for people to find a named house, assuming those numbered are done so logically, not always the case!

My Mum named our house "Wit's End" as she said that's how she felt a lot of the time when living there!
I call my homes "Frogs" as I love frogs.

The houses I grew up in all had names, but not the houses I’ve had as an adult. I wish they had, but if you add one now it does look pretentious. That said, the little house I lived in from the ages of five until seven was called Kosy Kot when my parents bought it. That had to be changed pronto! My parents, called it Newthorpe, a translation of Neudorf, a village in Germany that they liked. We then moved to the more decorous (but boring) The Beeches, where I lived the rest of my childhood. It had large copper beech trees in the garden.

My elder son and my brother both live in roads where there are no numbers, so their houses had their names (luckily nice ones) when they bought them. I’m a bit envious.

Not long ago I went back to look at The Beeches. The house was still there, but the name had gone, along with most of the other house names in the road, which had been widened, so the gates bearing the names had gone. Sad, I thought. Numbers are so much less imaginative.