Funny house names

House names can often look funny, rather than fancy. We've found that gransnetters' neighbours have made a few, er, unusual choices when it comes to naming their abode. Read the full threads here and here.

"I know a house named Llamedos (read backwards - it says it all)."

Original image: Shutterstock

"A new house down the road put up a name this week on a rather attractive piece of wood: COSTA FORTUNE." 

Original image: Shutterstock

"Mine is Rubblehall... appropriate since I share my life with a man who has an obsession with bricks."

Original image: Shutterstock

"There is a house close to my second home called the Dog House. Probably because the husband is always in it [grin]."

Original image: Shutterstock

"I remember a previous house where our neighbours called their semi Penniless!" 

Original image: Shutterstock

"My sister-in-law lived in a little cottage at the end of a road, which she named Wits' End."

Original image: Shutterstock

"The very first house I lived in with a name was called Tumbleweed; how can I have forgotten that one."

Original image: iStock

"My grandpa lived at a cottage the very end of a cul-de-sac, which he called The Last Post as his post was always the last delivered on the road."

Original image: Shutterstock

• See what gransnetters are chatting about on our forums.
• You know your grandchildren have visited when...