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 .

Ooh that's 2 borings for Long Meadow now. Also eek to having to live up to Monty Don, albeit our long meadow will be a field with horses in it!

Housey McHouseface is a definite front runner .

The combination of names are particularly special too!

Before we bought the plot we viewed lots of houses and the name can be really offputting. One we saw was called "Coldrain" which sounded appealing, eh? So no bogs, windy, wet, cold, snow etc suggestions.

Gablefields ?

Is there anyone or anything unique to your family, do you have any jokey things that only you do that you could incorporate into a name?

I'd definitely go with calling it something that has meaning locally. Do your research. Are there any old farmers about? Who previously owned the land? They'll have tales about how they used to plough with horses during the war and this field was called Bottomless and that one was High Tops etc etc.

Unlike some neighbours of my friend, they bought a plot and called it something like The Old Well because they found a bit of wall in a curve like a well.
What it actually was was a curved bit of wall because there used to be a muck heap beyond it in the field, taking advantage of the natural slope of the land they'd built a wall with a drop beyond, and filled the front of it so they'd back the muck trailer into the field and up to to the top of the wall and dump over the wall, then later they'd spread and plough it in. The curve was where there was once a big tree at the edge of the field so the wall went round it just a little way. I imagine the land got cleared and levelled before eventually being sold as a building plot and thus just a bit of wall toward the edge of the field where the tree was once was left.. I found this out because I used to work in the pub where the old boys gather and drink. They think it hilarious these townsfolk have bought the muck heap plot and grandly assume there was a well because it sounds cutesy.

Dunroamin

The Beeches?

Chescott
Winterberry

Beech meadow

How much land do you have? Green Acres? Stable View? If it's an equestrian property have a look at some stable names.

there is a house near me called Doubtful Cottage and i think that's to coolest name i ever heard. i imagine a couple of rich old goths live there.

Apparently a 'shieling' is a Scottish term for a meadow.

The Shieling?
Longshieling?

Reminds me of the word shilling. Would love to name a house after an old coin...

Shilling Meadow?

I would never name a house Rose Cottage ,those who work In the NHS will understand why...

Dave

The Homestead

Glebe House

Highglade

We have a Wits End' near us😂

Have you a local monument or attraction you could use?

x2boys agreed. I feel sad if I see a house called Rose Cottage.

Good luck choosing. I tried the quiz that was posted at the top of the thread but I'm not feeling any inspiration from my location.

Arcadia. I lived on a rd with my grandmother where all the Victorian houses had painted names. It was a shame some of them had faded and couldn't be read. She was always pleased ours was called 'Arcadia' but was worried it was fading. She moved out eventually but I was happy to notice the new owners re-painted the name.

Glebe House would be a bit odd unless the OP's house is actually being built on glebe land, though.

mutantninja I got Rosemarylands as well!

Greenacres is nice.

People at my church have called their house Kelvinhill. Their kids are called Kelvin and Hillary. It's not tongue in cheek.Always makes me giggle!

I think Longmeadow is a bit dull- I once saw a Beanstalk Cottage which I love - don't care its a bit twee!

We also don't have a number as in country. Our house came prenamed as Well Court due to the whacking great well right in the middle of our kitchen floor. It used to be called Butler's a couple of hundred years ago as the butler for the old Manor House used to live there. It is in historical records that he stole things from the house and went on the run in the countryside around the village. Tempted to change it back.

I put field in the thesaurus and it came up with ‘Glebe’

Call it Garthfield
garth garth ON garðr n an enclosure, yard, a small patch of enclosed cultivated ground, enclosed pasture (and the house attached to it); a shallow part or stretch of a river which may be used as a ford

I had to do that generator thing, and I got:

Pylonside
Chilly Field
Brown Lodge

Long Meadow is nice.

I'd avoid 'Anything View' unless that view is on your land. Unfortunately the previous owners of our place sold the land that held the 'View' so now our house name is a bit redundant