in proposing its a bit nouveau to have a house name when there is a road number

[Rabid]

you can use?

Our house name is "Kinell"

That's what we say every time the mortgage bill arrives.

Probably a bit middle class to worry about such things

It's a bit ridiculous to make up a name for a house but some do genuinely have a name and number.

"Kinell" arf!

I have both but it was already written on the house in italics when I bought it.

I use it when I give the address out if I want to be pretentious

I agree and think it is funny. There are three new builds along the road from me, which all have been given names on smart plaques outside the front door next to the number.

I think it's poncey and stupid.

My sister's house is called Jesmond. Makes me arf every time I see it

Our house was built between the wars, and it was given a name and number at the time.

We don't use the name, and took the name plate down when we moved in, just in case people thought we had made it up and had ideas above our station. It's a handsome name, but unnecessary.

It is v. Hyacinth Bucket! Unless you live in a house with a fair bit of land around it and a long drive, you look a tool if you name your house.

Lol dreaming!

My house has a name and a number. As do all the houses on my street. They were built circa 1880 for managers of a local coal mine and the names are themed. The mine is gone (as are all but one of the miners) - for me it's an important piece of local history.

A sprawling new build a'la premiership footballer pads - I do see where you are coming from but it's not the pretension that gets on my wick, Tis the appalling lack of taste.

just addressed letter to number and name

thought
"ponces"

Mine has a name and number. The road is very long (miles) and lots of properties are in numbered groups with names. Individual houses just have names.

My ex boyfriend's mother was so stuck up she refused to use the number and only ever used the house name. The Post Office actually wrote to her as replacement postmen complained they could never find her house and told her to put the number on her address.

Yanbu. Tis very nouveau.

My house has a name, not a number. It is off a main road down a farm track. Not too far away there's a house - let's say number 8 - in a cul-de-sac where the owners decided to give it a name. No-one recognises the name, including the post office. Unfortunately, delivery drivers for me sometimes end up trying to deliver my things to this house and the owners get very stuffy about it. It was slightly embarrassing once when a load of timber was dumped on their front lawn - the chap doing my garden didn't tell me about it and didn't give the driver directions. Other than that they are incredibly nouveau and stuck up so I don't really care. The woman has been known to say that theirs is the largest house in the cul-de-sac

So, YANBU

It's different if the buildings are historical or were named prior to street names. I lived in a village when I was growing up where there were plenty of houses and cottages with names because the streets were unamed.

This is normal

What is naff is buying a three bedroomed new build townhouse and deciding to call it Balmoral or Dunroamin.

DH and I used to rent a house with a name rather than a number. It was a bloody nightmare trying to explain to anyone where it was. I can't imagine why anyone would choose a name over a number.

The house I grew up in had a name because when it was built the council hadn't got round to organising house numbers as the road was basically a dirt track. All the houses had names; but my family are probably one of the few "original" owners left now, and I guess the newer owners don't know their houses had names

I recently discovered that our current house; which is victorian, also had a name and only got a number several years later. One day, when I get round to it, it will have a plaque with its name restored, although obviously we will use the number for our mail.

Our house had a name and number when we moved in, but credit card companies, etc don't like the name bit, so I usually don't use it for personal post.

But we work form home, so I do usually use the name as a work address, as I think that XXX House sounds more substantial and business like, especially as our house number has a letter after it.

Our old one always had a name - it was built in 190-something. We used the name and number though.

I like 'Kinell' though!

There's a house on a very intensive overpriced newbuild estate round the corner from me - the sort where every house has an identical front door called Farmhouse Cottage.

It's neither a farmhouse, nor a cottage.

Thats a bit shit! At least ours was relevant (it had been an orchard and market garden before).

I called my house "Dunroamin"

Cool isn't it?

Our house has no number, or a street - only a name (it's in a rural area), and a parish, no problems with the post office, but shop don't like it at all (if you order something for delivery) as the computer frequently says "no" - if you don't fill in a number. Sometimes the assistant asks to put in number 1, "to make the computer work", but I always refuse, as this would cause confusion for the posties (they usually then "discover" they can input a non-standard address into the computer after all!).

Don't see the point really but I do know a lady whose house is called "pretty girl's name villa" (don't want to out myself) and the name is part of the original stained glass panel above the front door. The next door house has the same but with another pretty name. That I think is lovely.

When I was a girl I used to pass a bungalow every day called "Morare". That had a number but would still have made me shudder if it hadn't. Always though the retired couple must have been expecting to die in it.