Has your house got a name

There is hardly a number in our village. That’s what Suffolk is like! And every village has a main street called “The Street”. Thank goodness for postcodes!

In my case it would be pretentious as I live in a town in a street of semis!

It’s not pretentious oldbat if apart from the name of the road it’s all you have. Not uncommon in small country villages like mine.

Oldbat1 not much we can do about it if we don’t have a house number. ?

My house name is the same as a very famous and historic Royal residence, so yes, it is VERY pretentious! ?

Ours has according to the deeds but I would never use it. Not at all helpful for the postal service when all houses locally only have names. Houses with names always seem bit pretentious to me.

My house was one of the showhouses and the builder had a plaque made of the name of the design fixed to the outside wall, so we just kept it. Hardly use it - just the number.

A woman who lived near called her house Mazin. She then told me that her name was May and she was never in. It made me laugh.

On my way to work every day I passed a house called Pandemonium.

Must get one--Witzend.

My big house had a name, given in the 1800's in keeping with houses built at the time---all villas on the sea-front, though I never used it. Unlike my ex. SiL whose house name has to be included.

Yes all the houses in my village only have names, no street numbers. It must be every delivery person’s nightmare.

There is an old school near me, converted into two semis. One is called "The Old School House", the other one is "11 Plus".

I grew up in a house called Thorngrove. The first house I bought was called Garth.
My present home doesn't have a name, but I quite fancy one.

L'Ancienne Cure - the old Vicarage

I was amazed recently to see a house with the name of "Passing Wind".

A friend's house was dubbed Dunpaintin.

Ours has... its written across the top of our cottage....we don't use it as part of our address

Our house name is, we think, delightful. It was already named by the builder who put two houses on a plot which formerly belonged to just one big house and our neighbour's house has the name of the original house (gosh that sounds complicated but it isn't really). We don't have a number as there was reluctance to split the original number into "number" and "numberA".

There is a very big posh house down the road that is imaginatively named "Millstone" ...

My MIL lived next door to her great grandparents when the old boy died they discovered he had been born and raised in Illsington in Devon...dont know why they were surprised as thats what the house was and is still called.She loved her "wee Grandpa " and spent a lot of time with him ,odd she didn't know where he came from .

And you couldn’t ask at the village post office because then everyone would know that Mrs X had the DN visiting!

As a District Nurse I quickly discovered that Apple Tree Cottage is the commonest house name near here, 7 in one village and 6 of them in the next village ?
I dreaded seeking out patients in some places simply because there weren’t numbers just ill-defined nameplates for many of them.

My boyfriend (now husband) was going home to his parents house so I asked for their address to write to him (remember that?) and he gave me a house name, town and postcode. I was very puzzled as although I could conceive of a house having no number I just couldn’t get my head around it not having a road name when I knew it was in a town.

I was living in Manchester then and the first time I visited his parent’s home was several months after our wedding. As we approached the beautiful Devonshire Georgian Manor House that was his parents home the penny finally dropped and I realised I’d married into ‘posh’. ??

Not now but when I lived with my parents our house had been called 'Ridsdale' by the previous owner.
Apparently, he called it that when he moved out of the dales & into a town!

We always change the titles for our DS and partners! E.g. "Lord and Lady" /Sir and Lady/Tarzan and Jane/ John and Yoko/ Morticia and Gomez etc. Likewise with house names , as long as the official number is written correctly you can call homes what you wish! Little house on the prairie? Transylvania Towers? There's a large lone home near us named 'The Grindstone' favourite for our home is The Ponderosa!

Going back a long time, I remember houses being called COBWEBS. It stood for Currently Owned By Woolwich Equitable Building Society.

We live in Sweden and have an “escape” house in the UK we have a name for it “ huset” which literally means the house as we always talk about going to the house it’s very appropriate and is a good talking point. In Sweden nobody has house names!