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

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you can use?

Beyond poncey. PILs have named their 1990s-built brick house and conveniently let their house number be overgrown by plants. Which just means that any post without their house name on it doesn't get delivered properly!

We've inherited a house name from a previous owner. Looking at other houses in the road, it seems that they were all named at the time of building (1960) because the houses still occupied by their original owners still have their names.

Our house has no name plaque but the name still pops up on utility bills and so on. It's not a bad name but means nothing to us. And IMHO is pointless for a house built in 1960 that has a perfectly good number as well!

Is there a way to deregister a name from a house without giving it a new one? Does anyone know?

My Mums partners house only has a name, not a number.
Arf at Twilight, Nora!

I know some people are being truthful, but generally they are bullshitters.

I should point out I live in an area that has some particularly poncey and expensive village areas, so it's not unusual for people to try bigging themselves up.

You can practically hear the shock and horror when they hear that I can figure out they are not quite as exclusive and posh as they are trying to seem.

i have a surname which people frequently get wrong. i say 'Hello I am [Tilly] [Minto]' and people reply [Tilly] [a name that sounds a bit like mine but clearly not what i said]? i reply 'No, like i said my name'...... now we are moving to a house with a similar name to my surname.

& DP has a name that is frequently misplet.

basically we are going to get a lot of post with various approximations of who we are and where we live..... not for the first time i find myself thinking numbers are so much better than words

Our house has a name and number, but we never use the name. I find house names confusing because if you are looking for a specific address you don't know which end of the road it is on.

There is an ex council 3 bed house in my home town called Dundrinkin.

I did some work which involved walking about matching houses to addresses and it was a nightmare in some areas. One converted house was numbered 1-6, 7,9,12a, and Garden Cottage, SuchandSuch Road . One street had doors accessible from both front and back, some were flats, street had several different postcodes, was a nightmare. A colleague had some first floor flats which had different postcodes to the ground floor flats!

Our house seems to have evolved a name. It is a very tricky house to find by address alone as it is positioned in such a way that it looks to passers-by like it might belong to either of two different streets, but in fact belongs to a third street, from which it cannot even be seen.

It's slap in the middle of town, though, and is right on the main footpath into the little town center, so everyone has seen it, and it's quite distinctive looking, so everyone knows exactly which house is meant by its description.

So when people ask where we live, I rattle off the address and get blank looks, but when I say 'you know, the blue house' everyone knows. So locally it's just known as 'The Blue House'.

I wouldn't dream of putting that on an official letter though! We do have to have our full address on the wall though because it really is a bugger to find otherwise.

"OorHoose" Amazing! Really?!

I live in a suburb (used to be a village but has been assimilated into a nearby city) and nearly all the houses have totally unnecessary names. Also, a lot of white BMWs and Audis in the drives and lawns that look like they've been clipped with nail scissors. I wonder whether all these things go together.

I really despise MN for the fact that it's ok to have a thread saying people with named houses are ponces and you either have to a) agree or b) defend apologetically.

But if you say that the people who shop in your local Asda are in any way less than Middle class you are a fucking awful snob (seeker).

Yes I have what some of you would all conceive to be a 'posh' life but why should I let you fucking slag me off for it like im fair game?

You shop in Asda Bigus? I'm confused as to the point you are trying to make.

Our house is Georgian and was named then. I don't know when it acquired a number. I was going to drop the name when we moved in, but then found out the history, so we kept it, and have both. I do feel awfully pretentious, though.

I think she's saying she's a ponce, and she thinks it's unfair that she can't slag off poor people on here without causing offence.

It's true bigus.

MN is full of inverted snobbery.

Unless you wear plastic bags for shoes and eat grass-fried in left over dripping, you can't talk about your life at all.

Good forbid you actually have a nice life, and a nice house!

My ex and his (now ex) wife made up their 1 DC's name out of a combination of both their names. When I told my mum she was very and said "Oh I only thought people did that with houses dear" .

FWIW, my house had a name and number, think the name came first, although don't actually know.

It's got a long private drive and is big and detached with big grounds so that must be ok then

We have a house name and no number - none of the houses neighbouring us ( or indeed within a mile of us) have numbers so it would be a bit random just to assign ourselves number 17 or something .....

There was a woman on a tv documentary about 'extreme parenting' a wee while ago. Her and her partner had six kids and they were all named in differing combinations of their names, which were (I think) Terry and Charlene.
So it was Terrilene, Chanter, Charry, Terrichan...and so on....

Bonkers!

Think I saw that pictish

We have a house name and number, as do all the other 30s houses on the street. There are houses built later which just have numbers.

We found the original name plaque hanging off the front wall when we moved in and it is in the garage awaiting restoration.

We never use the name though, just the number.

As I remember she was on the show because she home educated all six kids and had a classroom in the house. She was very chickpeas-and-hessian-for-dinner-tonight and we were all supposed to point and laugh at the stupid hippy I think....but apart from the daft names, she seemed to have her head well screwed on and I thought she was a good example of successful lentil weaving.

I always thought my Grandma's cottage was called Wit's End.

She used to put that address at the top of her letters to me. It was only years later that I realised it was just a humorous reference to her long suffering in the servitude of "his nibs" also known as "his lordship" AKA my grandfather.

I think some houses, with character or size or something special sort of suit a name. But a new build terrace on an established street, it looks ridiculous. Every time I walk past them I quietly think better of the owners of the 1 house in the terrace without a name.

Thank you DamnBamboo xx

Ours has a name and number - old cottage which was there before the numbering system was applied to the street