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

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Rabid · 11/06/2012 14:50

you can use?

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LemonTurd · 12/06/2012 14:30

Oops, seeing a house...

Roxy :o It could be Janet and David, could also be 'Danet'? :o

BeautifulBlondePineapple · 12/06/2012 14:38

I've been wondering about this recently too.

Just moved to a house which has a number and also a name which was given to it when the house was built in the 1920s (there's an original etched glass door with the name on it).

I don't want to be thought to be pretentious though, so haven't used the name and I can't help feeling it's a shame as it's a lovely local name.

Bah.

LemonTurd · 12/06/2012 14:43

I don't think that's pretentious, Beautiful.

BeautifulBlondePineapple · 12/06/2012 15:07

Maybe not. I do like it so might use it in certain circumstances.

Love your name LemonTurd!

LemonTurd · 12/06/2012 15:57

Thanks Beautiful, yours too! :) :)

Almostfifty · 12/06/2012 16:05

Our house is another with only a name, no number or street, as we live in a small village.

Don't think I'm particularly pretentious.

quirrelquarrel · 12/06/2012 16:15

Ours had a name before it had a number.
My parents love it- and they couldn't be "nouveau" if they tried!

jandymaccomesback · 12/06/2012 17:35

There were three bungalows in the village my in laws lived in called "whichismine" "idunno" and "the endun". I don't know if they had numbers as well.
We lived in a 200 year old house that had a name, but to be honest we usually used the number because it was quicker Blush

SoupDragon · 12/06/2012 17:42

I always wanted to make my ex In Laws a house sign for "Casa Barmi" which neatly utilised their names.

suburbandream · 12/06/2012 17:49

There are some lovely streets near me where the 100+ year old houses have names, not numbers which is perfectly acceptable. My parents' very average house on a very average street was called "Willow Lodge" Blush. There were no willows in sight and it certainly wasn't a lodge! I couldn't bear to use the name on cards etc to them, I only ever used the street number. My mum thought she'd really made it, having a house with a name, bless her!

Abzs · 12/06/2012 18:27

My address according to the post office goes as follows

House name
Enormous Suburb
City
Post Code

The Enormous Suburb address area is actually subdivided into about 10 locally named areas, but these are not in the post office database. Chaos ensues, especially as some of the local sub-names that existed before the Enormous Suburb were also used as road names elsewhere in the Enormous Suburb by some ass of a housing developer in the 70s.

emlud · 15/01/2013 15:35

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