What should we name our house?

[MuddyWellyNelly]

Literally don't know where to start!

Building a new house in a field in the countryside. Our plot is long and thin so all I can come up with is Long Meadow. There is nothing growing on the plot itself, Beech trees across the road. House will be fairly large so I don't think anything "Cottage". We will have a barn for horses too.

Hit me with your best ideas. All and any welcome .

The Big Hoose
The Bield www.dictionary.com/browse/bield
Dunrobbin

Bluebell Lodge
Foxglove grove

I was reading the memoirs of an ambulance driver who rightly commented how difficult it is to find your address with only a name not a number. Its been a legal requirement since the mid 1800s to have a number on your property so it can be located easily, but so many people are unaware.
Slightly different if you are the only property on that road I imagine, op. But will there be a time when you won't be?

But DrMad what number would you give a house on a 5 mile long rural road on which every other house already has just a name? Are you proposing OP calls hers Number One, even if it's in the middle, or picks an end to count from and calls it Number Fifteen, or what?

If the post office want her to give it a name, it needs a name.

I think I’ve read the same paramedic memoir. I don’t know if it’s true about it being a requirement to have a house number but when he described having to slowly crawl down a long road to read every house - sign some of which were too small to read clearly from the road - in an attempt to get to a teenage girl having in cardiac arrest it left an impression. With numbers you know straight away if you are heading in the right direction and which side of the road the house will be so the right house is easy to find.

We’ve lived in 2 different farm cottages out in the sticks, that were known by names, but also had numbers (that were neither displayed or used). I had to register my own house - on a street in the middle of a village -because the builder forgot to! In doing this I found out that now almost all houses do have allocated numbers, but if they are not habitually used, the owners don’t l ow.

Agha Mor means big field in Scots Gaelic. You'd have to pronounce the 'ach' the Scottish/Irish way though.

I really like Long Meadow.

We got married in a NTS property

Trust Meadow
Trust Shieling

Trust Lodge
Trust House

Trustacre
Trustlea

And a random one, as 'quarters' can mean where someone lives:
Quarter Shieling (depending on what the ratio of house to field is?)

Or is you're currently the only house... Ownlea?

Lots of good ideas in here, we've got a few mulling around now. On the name vs number vs paramedic; I do take the point, but really I don't think a number would help at all because there would be no reference point. Having lived in a rural property before, I am aware it had a number but as PP said, it was never used. When I did have cause to call an ambulance I think the postcode was enough; but really in this new house I'm not sure anything will help, unless our address is basically the directions to get to it. The "drive 8 miles from Town X, up the big hill, past the cottage and we're next on the left" House.

Muddy I live in a Scottish farm. It has a name and nothing else. The problem is deliveries and satnav. The postcode in the satnav sends the driver one mile away from us. I have well practised directions for the drivers. It's a pain in the arse. We have a farm sign at the end of the road which helps.

Today I was sorting my mail and the house that's "50m south of x house on xlane" has a proper name now! Made me a bit disappointed no lie and also confused as to where the heck it mean to start with 😂

Mumsnest

Long Meadow is quite famous as the house and garden from Gardeners World. Not sure I’d choose it for that reason, any more than I’d choose Wuthering Heights or Manderley or any other famous house name.

Isn't Long Meadow Monty Dons house?

My grandparents first house, in which they lived with their 3 sons, was Called Kaos
After the 4th son was born, they moved into a new house, named Kaos 2
The last house, where they lived alone once the 4 children had moved out, was called Kaos Free 🙂

My other grandparents wanted to make their house after their 3 children, using the beginning of each name. The result was ToSuTra!

Have you bought the whole field? Ask the previous owner or a neighbour - it'll have a name, they always do. Which county are you in? Might help with local agric terminology?

Well that was weird, when i wrote my post there was only a few showing, now it's pages long - strange stuff happening on here tonight. Logging out!

How about Preservation Meadow?

Beech trees are symbolic of understanding, learning, knowledge, sustenance and preservation.

Whatever you decide, good luck!

I knew a Mr and Mrs Dobbin who lived in The Paddocks.

Look at the OS map and see if anything nearby is marked?

My house is something something Lodge
I feel like a knob saying it lol. Was renamed from The Willows about 20 yrs ago
No house no’s and no neighbours
And no road name

Or

Sustenance Field

Knowledge House

Preservation House

Long Meadow Knowledge

I like Beechleigh