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

Our house has a name and no number. It used to be the post office, but when the owners before us bought it from the Royal Mail (in the 1940's) they didn't call it The Old Post Office. It has a perfectly nice name, but there is another house in the village which, as far as anyone round here can tell me, has never been the Post Office. That house actually has a number as well, so it looks like someone decided they wanted a house called that even though it never was a post office and our house, which was, is called something different. Thankfully it was all so long ago that no one gets confused anymore as there aren't very many people around who remember our house as the post office.

And that last post only makes sense if I add in that this other house IS called The Old Post Office. Despite the fact it never was

Fozxyour neighbour built a new house next door And called it 'nameofroadhouse'
It's quite big but it's not a mansion ....
But his number is ournumbera

my house has a name, was named when it was built, has a number too - am somewhat proud we now own a house with a name - not sure why age makes such a difference to people (1875 for us but wouldn't care if it was 1975)

Age makes a difference as the houses will have been less densely built, so names made sense. I added the dates of ours so that readers would know we didn't live in a strange, possiby gated, community of brand new houses called Becosurworthit.

Any post 1900s(ish) urban house probably should have a number rather than a name.

My Mum's house is Adam's Rib because it was built in the garden of the house next door, number XY. Most of the time people just use the number which is XYa.

My barn conversion on a country lane has got a name, no number, as the other houses dotted about here. I couldn't give a monkeys if it had a name or a number as long as the amazon driver can find me!