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 .

Beechy Heid

Beech House but maybe the gaelic would be more apt depending where you are so

Taigh na Feagha
Tigh na Orain

Disclaimer - consult an actual fluent local gaelic speaker to check!

I only came here to say Casa BevRon but someone beat me to it 😁

Even if it's deeply rural your house will be allocated a number and postcode when it's registered, as ours was. Other than that, I'd go for previous posters' suggestions of Steve, Susan or Clive. Or The Twattery. Most excellent and original.

Wow! We’re in a very similar position. We’re about to start building our house this spring. At the moment we’re calling it 36 quarryfield because it was a 15th century quarry where they hand dug the stone for building the local hall and when we finally got the land ownership we were given a card made by a relative with an historical map showing that in the 1800’s it was referred to as ‘field 36’.

Sometimes it can be annoying online to not have a number in your address but I think systems are getting better for that. Also the whole village has just names- loads of trees and no numbers so I think we’ll just go for Quarryfield. What can you see from your house? Any views? Long meadow sounds good, everyone will know how to spell it, if you’re 8 miles from the nearest house then it doesn’t need to follow on from a neighbouring houses.

Out of interest is it at the post office that you register your address? We haven’t quite got to that stage yet.

Best of luck with your build!

Gaelic not Taigh Beag ( it means literally small house but also toilet)

however Ceol Na Mara means sound of the sea though you will have a lifetime of C for charlie, E echo O oscar L lima new word etc etc

yes you register at post office even if 8 miles from nearest house you still might share a postcode

Anyone else still trying to figure out the something they saw on honeymoon / Disney character conundrum?

It's not near the sea so that's no use. I have found out (outing myself if anyone knows me) that it's near Macbeth's Cairn where allegedly he was laid to rest; also that the "big house" near by was a silver fox farm in days of yore.

I'm chuckling at the extra long house name, bonniebanks. I've been double checking names round about, I think I need to avoid "hill" as there are a couple with that in the name.

Bewarethequietboy I think quarryfield is good! Ours has very little previous use, I think it was woods for the "big house" at one point but has laid fallow for decades.

Crunchymum yes I am

The Brambles
Red Brick House or white house or Greystone house depending on construction
2019
Your surname lodge
You could go off piste and name it after a favourite film or book or writer.
Skyfall
Austen House
Copperfield View

Places that are important to us: We both loved NZ, went to the Seychelles on Honeymoon. We got married in a NTS property but using anything to do with it would be quite confusing I think.

What else? The plot is quite near a castle. It's very rural, lots of hills around about. So very little specific things to include in a name. Nothing as cool as some of the suggestions you lot have been getting anyway . You can see a pylon and a farmer's shed but perhaps that's not the best name...

Bob

To everyone who says they don't like named houses, they actually cost more than a numbered house. If you had two equal houses and one had a name that would be more expensive than the other.. you can google it.

Cannot believe someone beat me to Balonz!

Good luck OP - what a lovely conundrum to have. I'd definitely go for something subtly historical.

If you haven't got a mortgage, "Not The banks'"

DH has always said if he were ever in your place he'd call his house 'Gomorrah'!

@upaladderagain
I like your idea Plaistowes

Its very nice.
I have a name for a house, (if I ever get to name a house.) It is my favourite place in the world. Have you any such place, a village or place you have visited or somewhere special that makes you happy?

Quite-near-the-castle could be a name or Pylonia

Another vote for old maps.

What's the deal with Rose Cottage?

I love Skyfall

If it stretched your finances how about Brokus?

We had one near us called Llamados.

Sorry, I like Long Meadow, probably because in laws used to live in Little Meadow.

In a village near us where all the houses have names Windy Ridge is next to Windy Hollow. I quite like those too.

Rose Cottage is a twee euphemism for the mortuary.

Can't help with the Seychelles but NZ generates lots of ideas

Forgive the spelling
Kia Ora Cottage?
Arthur's place
Kiakoura lodge
Wanaka House
Wellington view
Milford manor

Maybe ask some of the locals for info on the area. We were recently in the same situation, and were going to name it after something that held significance for us, that we'd always believed meant 'beautiful view'... thankfully we checked with someone smarter than us because what it actually meant to 'small bare mound of rock'
We then got chatting to one of the neighbours who'd been here forever and the small hill that we're on has a local historical name, so it was lovely to use that instead!

Silver Fox House is nice

Or you could go for the simple idea and call it

The Big House

You have a paddock?

Shergar's Rest.
Redrum Lodge.
Horsey House.
Long-face Field.
Neigh End.
Field of Dreams.
The Hooves.

We have lived in houses called BrilligThe Pound (it was next to a very old square brick structure that housed escaped sheep) and The Gallows (rather ghoulish, we didn't,t name it).

@Bouledeneige

My house (a boring terraced Edwardian) has a number but it also has a name in the stained glass above the door - Valeta. It's rather nice and I have no knowledge of its origins - it's not spelt right for the capital of Malta

Valeta is a dance, a type of waltz.