Misleading house names - AIBU?

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(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).

greypaw

I bought a house once with three different addresses, the original name being No1 Dump Cottage.....

Also liked ‘Wood View’ which was across from a timber merchants

Best piece of house-naming I've witnessed in RL was in Leeds. House was called "Tip View".

It was opposite the local recycling plant I like that kind of literalism

Greypaw I've got friends who bought a closed down pub called The Black Horse and converted it into.their house. It's now called The Old Black Horse.

Our house has a number but also a name, which is an area of the country which is nowhere near where we live. Think "Cumbria" or simular. I presume the previous owners liked to holiday there or had some connection, but I think it's naff and never use it.

I live on a new build estate and am surprised at the amount of people who have named their houses. There are quite a few 'something cottages' even though the houses are new build 3 storey townhouses, plus someone has named their house 'coastal cottage' when we are at least 100 miles from the sea!

I live in Warwickshire. A house in the next village is called "Tide's Reach".

@cardsforkittens....
Same in Welsh for little house lol

My grandmother in law's neighbour has named her house after herself! Ty Griffiths!!

There's a new build village near us and one of the roads is called "Quidditch Lane". Some of the house owners have got into the spirit of it and the houses are called things like "The Golden Snitch" and "Quaffle House".

Our house is called after a certain tree...however there is no such tree.
Find the whole house name rather than a number a bit of a pain.

I'm a mortgage adviser so get to see lots different house names.
My favourite one is "The House at Pooh Corner"
I loved the Winnie the Pooh books growing up so covet this house so much. It is a very beautiful house, though rather out of my price range.

That sounds fab @EmmaGrundy I’d get into the spirit too if I lived there.

(Outs self to anyone local) on the big hill near me there is a perfectly normal (nice, detached) house called ‘Asgard’. I love it, makes me smile every time I go past.

That is a very blue living room in no.1 Yorkshire. Stunning house though

We have friends who live at 'Mountain View' house. It's a new-build on what used to be (and probably still is) a flood plain and there are no mountains in sight.

Our house is called something common like'Rose Cottage'. It's not a cottage, but a 60smid-terrace. We did put climbing roses around the front porch though!

There is a house a few miles from me called The Dolls House. It's not particularly small but the style is just like a dolls house!

I live on a ordinary London Street

A few roads away is another very ordinary London Street - Victoria terraces and semis. Let’s call it Park Road, cos it’s near the park

Someone has decided to break with the convention of every house having a number, and given their ordinary mid-terrace the name ‘Park House’ complete with signs on the gate AND the House

It obviously looks ridiculous when their neighbours are just plain old no 31 and no 35 but it must be such an anti-climax for their visitors to arrive at their bog standard terrace

There was a house in the road I grew up on called "Bessie". I always thought that was quite sweet.

My aunt's house is called 'Meadow View'. Last summer the grass had not been cut for ages and so you couldn't see any potential meadow for the jungle out there! A jungle in Hampshire, how exotic!

Here's The Dolls House

Here...

We once went to view a house called 'Sea View'. It turned out to be several miles - about 8 - from the sea, so after we had gone round it I asked the vendor about the name. 'Oh yes, of course, come with me and I'll show you'. She took us back upstairs into one of the two dormer bedrooms, which had Velux windows above, set into the sloping roof. She pulled out a plain, dining style chair, and said 'just pop up on that - if you look through the Velux roof window you can just see the sea in the distance!' .

Honestly, absolutely true! We didn't buy the house.

There is a small Sussex village called Washington, where someone has named their property The White House. Perhaps better during the last administration rather than the current.

There is a new development near where we live called 'Beach Court'. The nearest beach is about 50 miles away...

My favourite name is a house in Rye called The House with two front doors.
Rye has a few houses with fabulous names tbh.
My house has a name but no road name. So it's house name, village name which is sometimes confusing for new delivery drivers as we are actually a mile and a half away from the village and the sat nav/ google puts us somewhere else. The house has only been here 350 years .

Near me is a nice enough, but blatantly bog standard barratt house on a local estate, which for some unfathomable reason, is called Autumn Lodge.

They aren't the only ones either.

I als know a woman who is so far up her own arse she should be able to see herself eating, but that's a different matter. She "goes away to the cottage" for weekends.

Yes, to an even more standard built by the dozen standard house on another estate not dissimilar to the one she lives in the rest of the week.