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

[Rabid]

you can use?

First thing the tossers next door did when they moved in was take down the number and replace it with a name - Twilight :o Nearly wet myself laughing.

'Afaik it's hard for online ordering if you have no number'

Never had a problem, as I said, we don't have a road name and no one has ever raised an eyebrow. Our postcode narrows us down to 8 houses anyway.

My house has a name, but it doesn't have a number, or a street name.

Our house is an old converted farm building so we are xxxx House, xxxxxx Farm, although the x House makes is sounder grander than the 3 bed semi it actually is

My other pet hate is a huge palatial modern house being named 'Dinky Cottage' or some such, when there is nothing remotely dinky or cottagey about it. It's such an affectation!

Lord above!
YANBU.
Name and number is totally noov.
You might as well call your house Dunromin and have done.

This thread reminds me of when Vera & Jack Duckworth named their terrace on Corrie 'The Old Rectory'

We don't have a house number or even a street name.

[elevates nose]

Zombie is another one checking in with just a house name. It's the same one its had for over 200 years. There's no number as the adjoining lane has no name.

My mum's house has its own postcode.

Our entire village shares the same postcode.

Zombie's house is smack bang in the middle of the village.

Guess where SatNav directs all traffic.

there are three number 2s on our small street ( 6 houses) god knows why, anyway we all have house names
may i suggest kindly that your theory is indeed shite.

its not like there is a world house name shortage

My address is: Frontpaw, London

It'll get to me!

We have, it's a reference to the name of my grandfather's house because that's where the money came from for ours. I think it's nice if there is a meaning behind it.

My adress is just:

Kungfupannda

It will get to me.

We just have a house name and a village - our road doesn't even have a name. No-one knows the name of anyone else's house though - if a delivery van is lost we just go on names. Very rural round here.

Rather different from our last house - it was one of 5 number 16s in our road - a big Victorian villa split up. That got confusing!

What really pisses me off with this kind of thing, is when people are utterly convinced their property is so very well known and they are so important that they just need to give their house name and the village (always a village) name and they can be found. "We don't have a road name", they say.

This is a problem where I work, as we frequently use road names to locate people on our computer systems. When I google the postcode and come up with a road name, they say "oh yes, it's sometimes called that".

You mean it's always called that, you're just a pretentious arse who thinks you're impressing people when really I laugh at what a cock you are.

Obviously in some cases, there really isn't a road name. You can tell when someone's genuine though.

I used to live in a rather odd little corner of London that had 3 roads in it. The one we lived on had only 5 houses on it, according to the actual addresses, but there were another three which had their doors on our road, but were technically on one of the side roads.

There was also no rhyme or reason to the numbering system. On our road there was X Cottage, Y Cottage, X House, Z House and Number 2 ABC Road. There was no 1 or 3 ABC Road, just a 2. There was also, it turned out, no number 2 DEF Road as number 2 was on ABC Road, even though it was called 2 ABC Road not 2 DEF Road.

[Head explodes]

Even better - 2 ABC Road was flats.

Postmen came and went with unsurprising regularity.

My sister doesn't have a road! Ha, farm girl! Just the land name. Pizza delivery can still find her though

No really, she is off a dirt track, off a tiny lane.

We definitely don't have a road name. Which is weird as the village has 4 roads in it - the 3 tiny ones have names but the main one doesn't.

Even though if you carry on going down it one way it becomes X Hill, and the other way it is X Lane.

[Head explodes again]

Directions to our house involve "If you see a road name you are in the wrong place."

Now I like a house name. It's not wanky unless it's faux grandeur like the Farmhouse Cottage wank upthread.

If you came to a house called "Steve" though, it'd be a hoot.

What is pure wank are some of the road names on the new Estate near moi. Buckingham Place and their ilk. I hoik judgy pants at them alright.

'This is a problem where I work, as we frequently use road names to locate people on our computer systems. When I google the postcode and come up with a road name, they say "oh yes, it's sometimes called that".'

If you google my postcode, it comes up with the village name and 8 houses. Some people just don't have road names, honest. I must admit I do quite like it, though!

DreamingofSummer - are you my neighbour? I snigger everytime I walk past that wooden nameplate........

Our house has a ridiculous name. I always embarrassed to give it.
But the plot has three numbers on it, which is even more ridiculous .