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

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you can use?

Dh and I were talking about this yesterday. Our house and the others in the street were built in 2008-2010. The guy across the road has named his. It is engraved on a marble rock outside their door. It is also on a plaque above their door.

He's an arsehole too. Once shouted at my 70+ gran for parking outside his house when the snow was waist deep. (No exaggeration)

I am aiming for a blue plaque myself. If I manage to reach a suitable level of notarity and significance. Failing that, I shall get myself some blue spray paint a circle of plastic and stating that Aquashiv lived here and my date of death for absolutley no reason whatsoever.

A friend bought a house with a name and number and refused to use the name because it was naff (in her opinion) but then found out all the houses on the road had a duplicate with the same number.

To get to the house you went down to a T junction, for hers you turned left but if you turned right the houses all had the same numbers, but with different names.

I wouldn't give a house a name if it already had a number and it was in a street full of similar houses with numbers. So I agree with you.

"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."

No, she's saying that a vast swathe of MNers think it is fine to slag off people who aren't poor but not OK to slag off those who are. Either it is OK to slag people off/poke fun at stuff or it isn't. It isn't right to decide which people you can slag off on the basis of class/money/whatever.

My inlaws house as a name and a number. It was given both when it was built in the 1920s. I think that is acceptable.

Fair enough at the inverted snobbery argument - there is an awful lot of that on here. But I don't think this post is an example. You could be rich or poor and have a pointless name on your house i.e. a name that has been added since the number system came into effect or a name that you just feel like adding.

There are lots of examples on this thread of houses that only have names, not numbers, which is fair enough and not 'poncey'...but you wouldn't necessarily have to be rich to live in one of those.

Soupdragon - I know.
I was being flippant.

Has not as.

I know people who have named their new build terraces in a rather bourgeois area of London.

Mind, I don't think they could live with the shame of being a/b/c.

My job involves taking people's address' for services.

We match the address to the post office database. We take the post code and then it gives us a street name, so we say 'is that [road name] road?' then ask the number. I can't tell you how many times I ask for the number when faced with numbers say 1-99 and the customer says 'oh it's [housename] house. Then I have to say sorry I must have the postcode wrong, take it again, same list of numbers, ask again pointing out the results returned are numbers only, ask again 'oh yes it's definitely [housename] house' I ask them, is there no number as well as house name. At this point they get shirty, 'NO it's the house name I gave you' Customer on hold while I try the royal mail website, same results. Go back to the customer, ok I'm going to have to build your address in to the system as it's not there. 'well it should be there its [housename] house' me, 'and you are sure there is no number?' 'NO' ten minutes later, 'if you aren't in for the parcel can we leave it anywhere?' 'yes either neighbour.' 'What are the houses at either side called?' Them 'well there's 68 and 72'.

So you live at number 70 then?

using the correct address.

It is naff in this day of class culture and snobbery but tbh if it pleases someone I can't help but thing it is good to show a bit of individuality in this beige identikit world

Reasonable if it is a large and impressive property. Pretentious if its just an 'ordinary' 4 bed detached.

Our house has a name and no number so does every house on the lane, it's a pita to be frank because it's on a long lane that is inaccessible to traffic in the middle so depending on which end you want you have to approach it from a different part of the village. We are always getting delivery drivers phoning up cos they are lost, or knocking on our door when they are looking for a different house. We've not lived here long so I'm clueless as to which house is which and who lives in them so I'm no help. I'd much rather they were all just numbered then I wouldn't feel so poncy when I have to give anyone our address.

My grandparents house had a name and number but it was in a very old row of secluded cottages back in the day when the land was a farm so it was in the brickwork. I -hope- suppose that's different to naming your house Jedward when its only 2 years old?

Fair enough if the house has had the name for ages, eg my mum's house was built some time between 1900 and 1910 and at that time there were very few houses nearby (now it's a busy main road) so it still has a name. On the other hand, some friends live on a big estate of houses probably built in the 70s. He is a massive Elvis fan and they have called the house Graceland II. The whole house is like a shrine to Elvis. Makes me and at the same time

I am considering renaming our house 'AIBU'. Or maybe 'Mumsnet Towers'.

There's a bungalow near us called Thiseldo (pronounced this'll do). Presumably bought after a long search. Its been rented out for years, feel sorry for the tenants.

Ours is '1 housename', because once upon a time it was one property that has been split into 2. The amount of fuckwitted delivery drivers who are incapable of seeing the name in the address and deliver our things simply to '1 road name' never ceases to astound me. Fortunately the lady who lives at number 1 is bloody lovely and doesn't seem to mind (and indeed has put herself out to deliver things to us that have been mis-delivered.

I think the best cock up was when an entire Christmas John Lewis delivery of ours was delivered to a house with the correct name, on a road with the correct name. Unfortunately it was in a village 15 miles away

If I had a house I would definitely call it Derek or Frank.

My sister bought a house on a new development and people started naming their houses. There was a theme:

Foxes Burrow
Foxes Lane
Foxes Leap...

She was going to get a big sign for her house saying 'Foxes Crap' but never did.

I keep saying a house called 'Janavid' - Janice and David, perhaps?

If you've a 200-year-old stone cottage then a name is fair enough, but it's a bit wanky naming a newly built 3-bed semi.

Also people writing their house name in inverted commas makes me laugh -
"The Spinney" :o

Royal Mail hate that btw, you're not supposed to use any punctuation when writing an address.

Oh, LemonTurd, please get a bit of wood and paint 'Davice' on it to stick over their sign!

We've recently moved to a Victorian semi with a name and a number and are in the process of quietly trying to drop the name...wouldn't want to be saddled with a 'ponce' label