Aibu to think house names are pretentious

[MrHankyTheXmasPoo]

Fair enough if no number. In that case there is no choice.

am I the only one who has a chuckle at the likes of Dunroamin,3 ordinary street, etc

My friend group used to always name houses cos we lived in big houseshare groups. My house is still named after our houseshare of 15 years ago.

There's no plaque or anything but it helps people find the correct wifi signal.

Naming cars is just weird. Where does the plaque go?

Where DH comes from there are often house names but they generally start with 'Villa do...'

I don't think it would fit if we called our present 2up 2down mid terrace a villa. It's not by any length of imagination a cottage either and if we called it a hall everybody and especially the postie would fall over laughing. We haven't got names that make a good anagram either.

I think we'll have to stick with the number...

The house I grew up in had a name because it stood on its own, but I know what you mean! It generally happens on frightfully naice streets though

Ours is definitely not a frightfully naice street, frightful yes, naice, no.

I live next door to Wits End . I think it depends on the name of the house.

There's a new build up the road from us with a name, something similar to "Paula Leigh". I'd love to ask who she is!

My house has a name (etched into the gate posts) and a number. I only use the name if I'm being pretentious or talking to people in other countries who will find it interesting. So I would say YANBU

You could always emulate the redoubtable Vera and name an ordinary (stone clad) terrace house the 'best possible' house name - The Old Rectory.

I don't see it as pretentious and it's definitely not worth getting worked up over. I used to care for a husband and wife. When the wife died the husband named the house after her so I always think there might be something behind the name.

I think you can name your house what you like (although I wouldn't, at least not seriously/publicly) but you have to keep on using the number too so as not to cause confusion.

Our house has both name and number although we rarely use the name. I think the name probably came first - the number is quite high and I don't think there were that many houses in the road when it was built. The road has changed name since the house was built too!

Never in a million years did I even think about it. Then we viewed our dream house; my DH squeezed my hand when we parked just outside the drive. It has a name, no number - just five houses in a private road - a variety of ages. We love it. I must confess when I buy something and it needs delivering I love saying the name oh, The ................ . Sorry.
It feels pretentious but because it has never had a number it isn't.

I worked at a house called Jimbetgord once No prizes for guessing what their names were.

My parents house has a name and a number. Translated from Scots it means Daisy hill.

We rarely ever use it but I think it's a lovely name for a family home. Why shouldn't they have a nice reference to their house? Who wants to be number 17. There are loads of number 17's out there but very few Daisyhills. It's give us a nice feeling and who gives one what you think.

My mother's house is just a number - well actually two numbers as it was two teeny buildings originally and then knocked into one bungalow - but when we were digging about into old la d records we discovered that it used to be called Rohan Cottage, which is rather nice.

Our house is pretty ordinary but it hasn't got a number, which is quite common where we live, quite a lot of small houses/just plain semis don't have numbers. I thought it was cool to have a house with just a name when we bought it, but it's a pain in the arse: no one can ever find you. A friend in the same street as me applied for a number because people could never find their house, it was a real faff to get it, and after all that the one they got given was pretty illogical so it was no easier for people to find their house (eg it was an odd number and there are odd numbers on the opposite side of the road so people will think hers is the 'even number' side and won't be looking for her house on that side of the road).

I feel slightly miffed when my sister addresses birthday cards to me at "House name" I feel the inverted commas are suggesting the house name is an affectation on our part, when actually it is the same as its number. I suppose I should send her cards to Mrs X Yyyy, "47" Whatever Street and see if she gets the hint.

A childhood friend's house had a number and a name. Well a name plaque - like everyone else they used the number in their postal address. When they moved house to the other end of town they took the name plaque with them, so any house they live in is called the same thing. WTF?

Former colleague lived in a relatively small town/ large village. Pretentiously, he insisted his street had no numbers, just names. He had a relatively new-build house, named after a local hill, which had a long Gaelic name. Hearing him spell it out on the phone always made the rest of us share a wry smile. One wag pretended he thought the house name was "[3-Gaelic-words]-I'll-spell-it-for-you".

I love looking for house names, and yes, we gave our house a name. It's not an anagram of our names though!

Land, not lad. Obviously.

The big victorian villas in our lane have names as they only numbered the street in the 1980s when they built a few new infill houses. So our house has both a name and number.
The names are usually either inscribed on the gateposts or walls and are part of the history.

I expect it gives people joy. And if so, who cares if it's pretentious.

We've always named our car. It's like a mark of affection.

I think it's a bit odd to actually name your property particularly if it's a new build. There's not a lot you can do if it came with the name though. The road I grew up in all the houses on our side had names, 1920s semis, but the terraces on the other side didn't.

I don't see it as pretentious. Our past 3 houses have all had names. But no numbers because we have lived in villages. Our current house is fairly new, but all three of the houses built were only given names, there are no numbers on the street, the older ones around us are named too.

I quite like that our house has a name but it's a pain when having to tell people how to spell it!

We have a name. Would love a number as well as ambulances and deliveries struggle in the dark to find it. But on our road lots of the infill has random numbers so would need to readdress the whole street to give them numbers.

I had a crazy landlady I lodged with at uni, named her house (and every house she lived in) 'Sea View'. It kept her amused when people would ask 'ooh, can you actually see the sea from there?' When it was 1m from Leeds city centre 'errr....no.' (like I said-bonkers).