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?

[BuzzardBird]

Yes...the scrap men use a harp around Rubery it's so idyllic

[TheCunnyFunt]

My MILs house is a name, on the hill where she lives there is a cemetery, a hotel and MILs house so a number would be pretty pointless!

[lurkerspeaks]

I have relatives who live in a village where loads of the houses have names. They built a new one in their garden and it has a name as there is no numbering at all on their street. In that situation a name is not naff it is essential.

My relative is a local history buff so the name is pertinent to the area and the houses location.

I do raise my eyebrows at names on modern (1970s onwards houses.) What on earth is wrong with a number when your house sits on an estate/ developed street with lots of other houses all of which have numbers. Personlise your house by painting the front door orange for goodness sake.

[Flingingmelon]

We don't use our name but it's 'the dairy', which is what it was. Every now and again we get post to 'The Diary', which always makes me laugh.

[ZebraLovesKnitting]

Our house has both a name and a number. It's a very old cottage though, used to be a farmhouse & the rest of the village was gradually built on the farmland over the centuries.

Trouble is, you can't see our house from the road. Our access is up a long driveway that just looks like part of the commercial building which is at the roadside. So from the road you wouldn't know there's a house up there (Google Streetview is completely pointless for our house!) The other problem is that the numbering on our street is all over the place. For example, we are number 148, and the main road goes: 134, 136, commercial building, 152, 154... (Incidently, the other side of the road opposite us are numbers 321 & 323. Numbering hasn't worked out too well here!) So nobody can ever find our house. We use the name & number now though because we met so many other people in the local area who had no idea what house I was talking about from just the number, but as soon as I said X Tree Cottage, they knew where I meant. And yes, we have an "X" tree in the garden!

Not sure if this makes me snobby or not tbh!

[steppeinginto2015]

my parents lived for ages in a village with no road names, and no house numbers. (it is impossible to give and address on a computer system with no road name)
The houses all had similar names too like this:

The Manor
Manor Farm
Manor Farm Barn
Manor Farm House
The Barns
Manor Barn
The New Barn
The New Manor

The postman was ace. My mum once posted some cards in the local box with no addresses on 2 of them. He collected from postbox, sorted them at sorting office, asked his mate who delivered to the next village to ask the recipient of one card who they are from, got the answer back, Mrs X, so then he knocked on Mum's door, gave her the cards back and asked her to address them!!
Same area, they get post forwarded from old house to new. We use to live in same village, different name, different address, but postie knew they were my parents, and after we moved dropped off our post at their house. Then Mum and dad moved. Every now and then post comes to our old house. The postie doesn't deliver it, he passes it on to the postie who delivers to mum's new house, and it arrives there.

Ahh the rural life!

[magimedi]

Gomorrah is what I'd choose.

[shovetheholly]

It clearly is a terrible idea, since it is something my PIL do.

Years ago, PIL moved into a rather horrible house called 'Velosten'. Took them 6 months to work out it was an anagram of 'Love nest'. Cue much indignant huffing and puffing from FIL, and a swift name change to something Scottish sounding. (They have no links whatsoever to Scotland but insist that they are really Scottish by some distant cousin ten times removed).

[merrymouse]

I think its fine to give your house a name. However if it already has a number not many people will use it.

As others have said, houses with a name and no number are a pain if people are trying to find your house.

[EllenJanesthickerknickers]

A school mum has named her Victorian doorstep terrace in the midlands, Seaview. It's ironic, apparently.

[DropYourSword]

And if people don't like it magimedi, then sod'em!

[FoolishFay]

Our rural house is fairly new but replaced an older house on the same site and was given the same name. We have no road name either - just house name, village. I was most excited about this before I moved in, thinking it somehow glamorous and intriguing but no one has ever passed comment on it