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).

There's a barn conversion in the Lakes called Wasabarn.

My parents' house is in a little hamlet and all the houses have the same main name - like Great Catshouse, Little Catshouse and Catshouse Cottage. It works for my parents', Great Catshouse, because it's the size of the other two combined, and detached.

The other two are the same size and attached though! One is a holiday cottage, and has seen better days to be honest. I bet the renters are disappointed when they realise which is theirs.

My friend named his house "Bullshit Towers", had a plaque made up and everything. All the neighbours complained!

My MIL has a neighbour who's house is called Dunmovin

My old terraced cottage has been sold again. (i live further up the lane now) They were originally rail workers cottages, row of 4, built 1900. Obviously modernised, but listed so you can't change the look too much. The new owners of my old one have a put up a big sign saying something twee similar to 'Oak Cottage'.

It's been simply no.42 for the last 117 years - naming it looks pretentious and try hard.

Just remembered another one near me -
'The House With No Name'

My MIL has a neighbour who's house is called Dunmovin

There's a house I pass on the way to work called Dunvegan. They would have got away with it if it wasn't for those pesky bacon sarnies

We live in a rural village and our house is one of the old farmhouses in the area called, wait for it, The Farmhouse. The old workers' cottages have been knocked into one house slighly up the road from us (and tucked in ever so slightly behind us) that is called Farmhouse Cottage. Delivery men are CONSTANTLY trying to give us Farmhouse Cottage's parcels.

The old cowshed is now our garage. In the 90s, the previous owner applied for planning permission to turn it in to a holiday let but never got around to converting it. We still have to make regular declarations to the TV licensing people that only our cars live there, and we promise that they neither watch television nor listen to the radio.

One the estate full of bungalows behind me, there are two 'Rivendell's. I shit you not.

I have never seen any elves.

The bog standard, boxy new builds near me are all XXXX Lodge.

Why???

Someone on my new-build estate has named their house "[street name] house" and bought fancy lights to illuminate the whole building at night.
It is a standard 3-bed new-build. Seems very pretentious to me.

There’s a house in my town called ‘The Spread Eagle’

North East Scotland is tremendous for unappealing sounding house / place names - 'Piggersbog' and 'Windyraw' are two glamorous examples....

There's Fakem Hall in a town near me.. it's a 3 bed semi!

There's a 'Dunroamin' I pass on the way to my parents house!

My PILs live in a descriptive house courtyard with names like 'Big House', Little House', 'The Barn', 'The Dairy' etc. Makes me smile.

Is so wish I could remember the name of the house near me that's on the market - built by the owners, it's called something like 'BarbnFred'. I'll see if I can find it later.

I know of a 'My House' and a 'Sunny Poo', literally spelt like that.
And a 'The White House' which is pink...

There's a cul-de-sac of four houses on the old council estate here with a proper sign and everything called Copper's End.

They were the police houses and all four contain retired police officers who bought under Right To Buy.

I saw one once called 'The Llama Lounge', still makes me smile

Dick Intake (Winderemere) caused a serious double take.

www.zoopla.co.uk/property/dick-intake/storrs-park/bowness-on-windermere/windermere/la23-3lt/12668944

I once knew someone, who lived in a bungalow called 'Y Wury'. I judged.

I used to drive through tiny hamlet (about 3 houses) called "Willicote", which, as a friend said, was not exactly a condominium.
The main building there was called Knobbs Farm

Yet another 'Seaview', only trouble is it is in a Cotswold market town where I used to live.

There's a dinky end terrace sandwiched between its neighbouring house and the side of a railway bridge. I always look for it when we're passing on the way to FIL's.

It's called "Tuck Tin"

Similar to someone above who lives in "The Farmouse" in a hamlet, we also live in a hamlet and ours is "The Cottage". But it would have been practically the only cottage in the village at one point - houses never used to have numbers out in the countryside. Every house in our village is named - no numbers.

On another note, if you were building a small 2 bed, double fronted cottage, what would you call it? Cheekily looking for ideas but needs to be traditional and not something made up!

Oh, and we can't number it - it has to be named...