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).

(this will out me)

My parents used to live in a village. There were no house numbers, just names, and there were no road names, so the addresses were all
house name
village name.

Not that many house, but they included:

The Manor
Manor Farm
Manor Farmhouse
Manor Farm Barn
The old Manor
The Farm.
The Barn
The Manor Annexe
Village name Manor.

new postmen must have hated the place.

Also just down the road was a conversion called something like Rats' Playground.
It didn't sell. They had to change the name.

But I must add that our postie was bloody fab.
one Christmas mum wrote a load of Christmas cards and stuck them in the post box. She missed the address off one.
The postman collected them and took them back to sort, noticed the missing address, delivered the rest which had local addresses, and knocked on one door and asked if the recipient could tell him the name of the person sending it, as she had forgotten to address one of the cards. Found out it was my mum, went to Mum's house and returned to card to her for her to address it! Waited while she wrote the new address ona dn then took it with him to deliver.

Yes, that is No 1 Yorkshire. As you say it is a gorgeous house.........probably the same price as a 2 bed flat in Fulham.!Just goes to show there are some perks for living 'Oop North' !!

Our house name (Middle House) doesn't really make sense anymore as there is 12 houses in the road rather than just 3. Although it makes slightly more sense than Top House as we're still vaguely in the middle.

My house shares its name with a hospice quite a few miles away (think Saint Cecelia's). I have often received post for the inhabitants of said hospice, despite the fact that our post codes are very very different and we are in different local authorities.

The hospice runs several charity shops in our region and I secretly want to steal one of their shop signs and stick it up outside my house (wouldn't, obvs, but it would make a great house name sign).

Big new build in our village is called "Downsize Abbey".

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

THE BUNGALOW.*

tippz I also have a relative whose address is "The Bungalow". I wonder if we are related......

I had a colleague who moved into the area and decided to view properties on the delightful sounding Barrow Island. I must make it clear I pass no comment on the area at all and have lived here myself.

She was furious to discover it was not surrounded by beautiful blue seas and verdant pastures. Instead she visited Egerton Court. I do not know how to post a link but do google.

There's one in my row of terraces called 'The Dovecote' - I quite like to imagine that the doves saved up for a deposit, got a mortgage and now live cosily in their house

I'm thinking of calling my house 'Dirty Great Seagulls on the Roof Cottage'

No 1 Yorkshire is gorgeous. I know people can put plaques on their houses but I really didn't know you could just change your house number to a name and use it as your address.

I pass a house called Lady field each evening and does make me snigger .
Makes me think of a overgrown large lady garden 😁

an ex had a family holiday home called Thisledome

as in This 'el do me

apparently

There is is house that I often drive past called 'Cocayne'

Imagine being on the phone to customer services when they ask for the first line of your address.

You rang??

I think I will give my house a name. The Shite Hole ought to do it.

'Duckpuddle cottage' is one of my favourites, especially the stained glass ducks in the front door glass.

My favourite is Camion Vista, adjacent to Dartmoor View. Both are true...

My fave is Nuclear View, opposite a nuclear power station. Have heard of a Wits End too.
My grandparent's house name was an amalgamation of their first names. Cringe! I think this was quite popular in the 1930's.

Round the corner from my mums house on a fine but bog-standard 1980s housing estate is a 3 bed terrace called 'church view' if you peer carefully down the narrow pathway that runs to some garages opposite you can see the plain brick wall of the back of a very unexceptional new-build church (think 1980s primary-school type 'architecture') The owners either have a great sense of humour or take themselves very seriously

I live in 'White Cottage'.

And guess what, it's a white cottage!

My old house in Lincolnshire didn't have a name or a number it was known as the previous owners name as they had lived there for 60 odd years and it was a very small village.
We had to name it when we moved in and as my ex was obsessed with James Bond it was named after a mountain in one of the films.

Smiling reading these

My old house was called Tadpole Towers

My parents bought their 1950 's semi detatched council house and quickly renamed it "The Squirrels". I remember mail arriving with the words "try number X " written on the envelope!

I used to know people who lived in a house called 'Burnt House'. It had caught fire once. In about 1532.

The village I grew up in had a little terrace of typical 60s council houses in the middle

The addresses were 1, The Council Houses/2, The Council Houses etc etc

I bet those residents LOVED being judged on their addresses

My house has a name (no number) which is unusual for our area, and no-one believes that we don't have a number.
Our house name suggests a very, very small house that would sit by the gates on the edge of an estate, it is in fact a largish detached house.