Is having a house name a crap idea?

[IsabellaofFrance]

We are moving in a few weeks.

I would like to give our house a name, but DF laughed and said 'oooh how snobby'.

Has anyone house got a house name?

[Charlotte3333]

The house I grew up in didn't have a number, just a name. But it was 500 years old, and supplied the water to the village in olden times, so when you said "The Tap House" people generally understood. We live in a new build now so wouldn't consider it. There's a chap not too far away who called his house Moonraker. My boys think it's hilarious when they walk past.

[MimiSunshine]

Do not give your house a name. Its awful and pretentious.

If the house already has a legitimate name i.e. its on a road that all other properties also have names rather than numbers then fine.

But buying a house which is currently 35 and changing it to Belle View / The Copse / The Old Mill (Or Marjorie) is just awful.

[DinoMight]

We've got one nearby called 'Glendonna' - the names of both their children just merged right together there to make a lovely house name.

[Behindthepaintedgarden]

Does anyone remember Vera in Coronation Street calling her terraced ex corporation house 'The Old Rectory'

[BuzzardBird]

There are no numbers available for houses in our lane and I feel a right tosser when I am asked the house number. It makes it worse that our house has a really wanky name that only sounds right if you actually know the house and where it is.
More annoying also is that some sites on-line do not believe me that I don't have a house number and I have to make one up

[Justgetthruthegoddamday]

We have an old house with a name which people often say is lovely. However, according to urban dictionary the word had a different meaning entirely....

[CruCru]

Our house has a name but it was built before the road it is on.

The problem with houses with names and numbers is, if you write to them, you never know whether it will annoy the occupants if you just leave the name off. I used to know some people who got very funny if you left their area out when you wrote to them (think writing Newcastle upon Tyne, Postcode rather than Gosforth, Newcastle etc but not there). Cards still arrived so it must have bugged them for another reason.

[MrsTawdry]

Just give it a name if you want! Who cares what anyone else thinks! Do you imagine all those rural folk way back down the centuries thought "Ohh better not name the cottage! Folk will think we're above ourselves!"

And I know they were name for practical purposes back then but times have changed...and we now can do as we please!

[MrsTawdry]

As to those who call it "awful and pretentious" well. I think that anyone who judges like that doesn't really matter anyway!

[Redismyfavouritefood]

Ours has a name (named after the farm)

I had a thread on here after a family in the village moved in and decided to call their house the same name

I got all their post for ages then stopped dropping it round. Then they started coming to collect it.

I was still getting parcels for them at Xmas. It wasn't officially called the same as mine, they just had a sign made up and gave it as their address but different road

[Purplepumpkins]

Our house has a name, but then it's a Georgian farm house in the lincolnshire woulds and there are no other house near...

[Bunbaker]

Our last house had a name because it was an old farmhouse and it was named after the farm. It was he first house on the road so it as easy to describe to people how to find it. Our current house has a name and number, but we just use the number.

In general just having a name and no house number makes the property difficult to find.

[MyNeighbourIsHorrid]

charlotte3333 my uncle lives in a house called Moonraker! Are you in East Anglia?

[springlamb]

My house is 1980s built but only has a name. I think the name relates to the land more than the building on it.
It's all official though, if you put the postcode in and click 'find house' all you get is a long list of house names.

[Behindthepaintedgarden]

The Tap House sounds nice. I like names that are connected to the history of a house. But so many houses nowadays seem to have names that bear no relation to their location or history eg 'Bella Vista' for a house overlooking a supermarket carpark, or 'Beech Wood' for a semi d just off a main road.

[Sianilaa]

Oh no, we've just bought a new house after years and years of saving every penny and living next to horrible neighbours.We are so excited that we've chosen a name for it that's special to us :(

It's not us being pretentious or snobby, we just wanted something that had real meaning for us.

It has a number and we will clearly display that ;)

[Homepride1]

I have a new build (5 years) and a name ...... But to be fair I didn't name it! The road was already here so had no1 etc when they built two houses at start of the street so they gave them names!

My address sounds so posh and expensive especially given the On-Thames town etc...... Most posh council house around

[YaTalkinToMe]

If you want to name your house, do it.
Who gives a toss if others think its stupid.
Though one word of warning, don't give it a stupid name as a joke.
We had a new system at work where we could change personal details ourself really quickly, a few of my colleagues have proper house names- so I joked about and decided to re name mine, I chose the most stupid thing that popped into my head. Thought it would be funny to get some post from work and then I would go in and change it.
I promptly forgot and was in a personal meeting with 2 financial professionals, and one asked if that was really my house name, I replied my house did not have a name and was confused, until they read it out from my payslip , I advised them I would get them re printed before they sent them off.

[YellowTulips]

My house has a name, but it's been called that for over 150 years. I wouldn't name a house, but would keep an inherited name...

My parents "named" their new build home and whilst the name they chose is ok I think the principle is a bit naff tbh - not that I can articulate why which is probably U in itself on my part

[Shockers]

Our house is a 1960s bungalow and has a name, but no number. It has never occurred to me that folk might find it 'naff'!
There are only 4 houses in our courtyard and none of them have numbers, just names. It is rumoured that ours was named after the house in which the mistress of the builder lived...

[NorbertDentressangle]

YaTalkinToMe - - I'm dying to know what you jokingly called your house now!

[tilliebob]

Nearly all the houses in my village have names - never thought anything of it. Maybe we're all snobby. As an ex-mining community, I doubt it somehow!

[queenofthemountains]

I always wanted an address with no numbers (my uni friend had one, I thought it was so interesting and really wanted it) now I have one on a street with no numbers just names and I love it. Luckily my house has a lovely unusual name that is the only one in the country I can find on google.

Its a right pain when it comes to deliveries and directions though and spelling it out continually especially as I am a northerner in the deepest south east where I say a lot of my letters differently.

I wanted to change the name to Little Saint Bride House after a street name in Liverpool I used to see from the bus, which I think is the nicest street name I know.

I would do it, having a house name is brilliant!!!