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Misleading house names - AIBU?

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ParisLilleBrussels · 28/09/2017 22:52

(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 Shock Envy (and an envy face added in for good measure).

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ohhelpohnoitsa · 29/09/2017 17:48

Where my workplace is, there are many misleading names and signs, suggesting a mansion lies behind the wall or hedge when actually they are run of the mill 3 bed detached houses - along the lines of Smith Residence, Jones Manor etc. I think it's a community status thing around there.

2old2beamum · 29/09/2017 18:22

Our house built in 1872 is called Providence House we should be so lucky! It is a big tatty terraced house.

ImMissHannigan · 29/09/2017 20:29

When I was about 5 we lived in a small village where the houses were named and not numbered. We had a fire in the kitchen at the back of the house. The fire brigade went past a couple of times before they found it. Luckily we all escaped but as a result the local council insisted on houses having names as well as numbers.

tapdancingmum · 29/09/2017 23:47

There is a house near me called Esso View - guess what's across the road!

GoodyGoodyGumdrops · 29/09/2017 23:56

On my uncle's street the houses on one side go 2, 4, 6...etc etc...14, 16, 18a, 18b, 18c...etc etc...all the way to 18x, 18y, 20, 22 etc. Most of the houses on his street are nice big early 20thC houses converted into flats. All the 18s are really nice big 1950s houses. Apparently no18 had been the local Manor House, which was knocked down after the war and the land redeveloped. Obviously they didn't want to renumber the whole road. Equally obviously, the house owners didn't like being 18 alphabet soup, because every one is named - names like Xanadu, Belmont, Helvellyn. In London. HmmorGrin?

SquidgeyMidgey · 29/09/2017 23:59

Ours is called x cottage but a kindly delivery person once laid into DH that a barn conversion shouldn't be called a cottage. Oh to have so little to worry about in life.

parkednearby · 30/09/2017 00:12

We were on holiday last year and in a seaside village right near the water's edge we came across 'Flood Cottage'. It was for sale.

Chottie · 30/09/2017 00:22

I know of a house called 'The Last Penny' and the owner said it cost him to his last penny to build it....

duvetdaysgone · 30/09/2017 00:22

There's a house not far from me called Siller's deen (Money's done).

VoluptuaSneezelips · 30/09/2017 01:06

My DP's late Gran's house was called Cats Castle, it's a semi. She did have enough cat's and cat themed items to fill a castle though if that counts.

Pariswhenitdrizzles · 30/09/2017 01:20

Aww that's lovely Voluptua :)

DixieNormas · 30/09/2017 01:44

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CloseToTheBone · 30/09/2017 02:31

CardsforKittens

Exactly the same in Welsh. I used to live in a house called Ty Mawr, but I wouldn't live in a Ty Bach :)

BikeRunSki · 30/09/2017 06:03

I know a Farm called "White House Farm". The house is pink....

StripeyDeckchair · 30/09/2017 08:13

In the village where my parents live there is a bungalow called The Lighthouse.

They don't live on the coast

monkeysox · 30/09/2017 08:57

My house has a name. No number. Another house (much posher) in my suburb also has same name Hmm

pollywollydoodle · 30/09/2017 09:58

We holidayed in The Pigsty once ... it wasn't one..

TammySwansonTwo · 30/09/2017 10:20

tippz I want to go to there.

RedBlu · 30/09/2017 10:42

We live on a new build estate, quite a few people have named their houses - Church View, Woodland View, that sort of thing. Granted you can see a church and you can see the woods BUT the next phase of the development (if it gets the go ahead) will mean they no longer have that view!

We purchased a house sign a month or so ago - we did try and think of a “name” we could give our house but couldn’t think of anything so stuck with just the house number and road (necessary as the road we are on confuses most people and they end up going to our house number but on the strong street)

ifcatscouldtalk · 30/09/2017 11:07

For some reason I do like houses with names, esp v original or funny ones.
When I was younger my friends parents who were v well off and had a lovely house,
named one of their first houses a mix of their names, so eg "mayron" (although that wasn't it).
What was a bit cringy was seeing them years later, they said "do you remember when we were living in mayron." Like it was the town name Grin.

ifcatscouldtalk · 30/09/2017 11:09

Some of these are great Grin.

CowesTwo · 30/09/2017 11:10

A house near me is called 'Elvis'.

ChocDee · 30/09/2017 12:44

We named ours after the beach where we had our first bonk. Though amongst polite company we tell people it is where we had our first kiss which is probably equally nauseating...

Revenant · 30/09/2017 13:02

There is both a Sea View and a coast cottage in Hackney Smile

NinaMarieP · 30/09/2017 13:57

I had to look up Quidditch Lane!

It’s real and you can see The Golden Snitch on google street view. Love it!

Misleading house names - AIBU?