Misleading house names - AIBU?

[ParisLilleBrussels]

(Light hearted btw!!)

Random, but is it just me who finds this a bit ridiculous?

I had an invitation earlier today from a colleague for a housewarming they're having. The address (I kid you not) is 'The Small House, X town, X county....'

Out of sheer nosiness, I Googled 'the Small House' earlier, expecting to find a lovely cosy little cottage on a tiny street in a picturesque village.

Except the Small House in question is in fact a bloody great mansion of a house, with more than five bedrooms and bathrooms, huuuuge kitchen, a conservatory, home office and massive garden (and an envy face added in for good measure).

I’ve got a pet hate for this! Where my parents live are lots of very small close together villages - some much more upmarket than others, with a price difference of roughly £50k just for the name. I was once doing deliveries and noticed that ‘Upmarket House’ was in fact NOT in the Upmarket village but the next one, and they’d changed the name to bump up the price. I was wandering round for over an hour in the rain looking for this sodding house!

Argh Holiday that must've been so annoying!! They sound like absolute chancers (although 10/10 for creativity and thinking outside the box to them though!)

Your post also reminded me of something I read recently - it said that just giving your house a name can make it sell for more. Maybe I should try it with my poky flat (Cosy Nook?)

I've mentioned this on here before.

I live at Xxx farm house. People moved into the village at 1 The Village. Then decided to call their house xxx farm house 👀. They didn't change it at the post office just gave it as their address and had a little sign made up for their house. It was the most bizarre thing.

I took their post in for the first week and then stopped. It all goes back in the post box now TWO years later!

There's an ugly house near where I used to live called "Eridanus" which I think is something celestial, but all I can see is "anus" so it kind of suits the ugly house.

That's so odd Niccelia! You would've expected them to maybe change it at the post office. Any ideas why they didn't? Do people ever get confused and turn up st yor house instead of theirs?

NearLife

We lived in an area where the houses were huge, minimum 5 bedrooms, big rooms etc. The one next to us was called Magnolia Cottage and every time I passed it I thought 'that is NOT a cottage' to me a cottage is small and quaint, not imposing with a big garden and room for 3 cars on the drive.

Friend's parents recently sold their house to new owners who had the bare minimum of surveys done on it.

New owners are now complaining to the neighbours that they should have been warned about some damp they have experienced.

The house is called 'Marshlands'...

I live in a small Market Town on the South Yorkshire ,Nottinghamshire border. The first house as you come over the border is a lovely Georgian Townhouse. It is called Number 1 Yorkshire......I think that's brilliant.

My cousin lives in a bungalow in one of the shires, called........

THE BUNGALOW.

I shit U not.

'No 1, Yorkshire.'

THIS one @brunhildafair?

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-50181105.html

My holiday house has a rather charming name with the word 'River' in it. Except that it's on a small tropical island in the South Pacific with no rivers on the entire island.

the best house name I ever saw was 'Tethers End'

It annoys me more when a new development is called 'The Laurels" or "Oak Tree Park" yet the developer cut down all the trees to build the houses!

ParisLilleBrussels there's a house named that in my parents village. It was small once but now it's been extended to one of the biggest! I wonder if it's the same although I don't know the bedroom details

Silky - Great Mortgages and The Millstone. Possibly neither is genuine!

Midnite, just being nosey, where is you holiday home, I have been in the Pacific since March?

I was reliably informed that in north west Scotland there would sometimes be newcomers who wanted to name their holiday cottage 'the small house' in the local language (Gaelic) However, in Gaelic the term for 'small house' is used locally to mean 'toilet'. Oops.

I know of a perfectly nice little barn conversion. It's called Hovel Cottage - funnily enough it was on the market for a while...not sure if it ever sold...

Nothing to add except that No1 Yorkshire is Stunning!

I live near a house called the Old White Horse. Doesn’t look anything like a horse.

Greypaw, maybe it had originally been a pub called The White Horse which had been converted into a house and they kept the pub name adding 'Old'?!

I was being obtuse.

No 1 is bloody gorgeous and a bargain too.
Not that I have 1.2million but around here you'd get a lot less for your money, Beautiful.