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

[Rabid]

you can use?

OHchrist, seriously? , one of our previous properties was a "Dunroamin", we removed the plaque but the name kept appearing on letters for years!

Ours has a name and number. It already had the name when we bought it and its to do with the houses history so is relevant.

However saying that we don't really ever use the name (and come to think of it there isn't a sign up any more either so it would be pretty pointless to actually use it!)

I am joking ^ btw.

Some houses deserve a name I think. DH is currently woking at a house down let's say "Young Lodge Lane" and the house is called "Young Lodge" because the lane is named after the house and its 50 acres - now that deserves a name eh?

It's fabulous by the way

Our first house was a very ancient cottage. 1600 and something so it had a name. My parents have a farm so a name is OK there too.

It is unutterably naff to give your 3 bed semi a name like Balmoral though. Urgh.

I do like Kinhell though!

woking = working obv

We recently discovered that our house has a name engraved in the stone over the living room window. It was painted over and we plan to get it restored.

I'd never have named a house but was thrilled to discover it had one. Ours is one of a number of Victorian houses, I think they added numbers when the newer houses were built.

There was one near us called 'hungryside'. Mum used to tell us that it was because the couple who bought it had a huuuge mortgage.

@ ohchrist

We called our flat Gregory (as in Gregory House) it makes me happy

my parents village used to have house name, number, village name (so Dunroamin, 7 Middle-of-Nowhere) as none of the roads were named. Worked OK as there were only about 30 houses, so although not many numbers were consecutive, it was quite hard to get lost. But the council decided that everywhere had to have street names so they invented some, and then just when everyone had got used to that, the Royal Mail changed the postcode. It's taken years for the changes to filter down to delivery companies computers.

Can someone explain kinell to me please? I dont geddit!

My house has a name, as do most of the houses in our village, in rural Rutland. But most are Georgian or Victorian houses made of stone and were names long ago. Occasionally a barn gets converted which gets given a number but most people name them after the farm they were from, so "Manor Barn" or whatever. I don't think it's poncey at all.

Unless you live on a new housing estate I suppose.

as in Farking 'ell.

Sisters friend had a cat called Cooking Fat (said with a thick brummie accent).

Fuckin' 'ell.

wheniwish

Kinell is an abbreviation of "fuckin' 'ell!" an exclamation one might make when seeing the mortgage statement

Our house doesn't have a number, only a name. Does that mean I'm nouveau? :( I'm quite old, really.

oh x post just a bit, soz

"soz" being teenage girl or text-speak for "sorry"

I may need to call my place 'o'ballueax' then (or 'bastards!')

YANBU

One of the seven signs of pretentiousness.

However, obtaining a post code for a new property is a nightmare; the responsibility is split between the council and Royal Mail.

Knid it means you live in a fabulous house.

Haha thanks!

I think any house with a name should have a number too - for the sake of the delivery services.

Knid, I think you're okay. After all, I am sure Blenheim Palace is not Blenheim Palace, 1 Oxford Road, Woodstock.

Name is fine. Number is fine. Name and number could be perceived as being a tiny bit naff.

We've got a name and a number, the name came first and was there when we bought the house, - it is a German name, and no one can pronounce it properly, and I always have to spell it out. So I was quite pleased when we were told we all had to have a number, and I no longer bother with the name.

Some people in the village don't display their numbers though, preferring to stick to their poncy house names and assume anyone who is worth bothering with will be happy to work out that Bide-a-Wee and No.70 are one and the same.

Pendeen pray tell what are the other six??