AIBU to think this is pretty obnoxious?

[Neolibera]

I live in a medium-sized Home Counties town. As you drive in to the town, you drive through an oldy woldy village with several cottages, a village green and a pub. Let’s call this village Sydham Green.

In plain view of the road, there is also a very large house - definitely modern, but built in sort of manor-style.

The inhabitants of this house recently put up a sign at the front of their front garden, by the pavement - a pole with a small wooden board hanging from it - that said Sydham Hall.

A few weeks later, they decided that that sign clearly wasn’t noticeable enough, so they now have a huge sign, about 2 by 2.5 metres, with ‘SYDHAM HALL’ written on in huge letters, propped up against the side of the house.

It’s not used as a guesthouse or for any events, it is purely a residential house. And it’s not a historical landmark, it’s a new build.

Is it just me who thinks this is rather obnoxious behaviour? It seems to me like they’re flaunting their wealth to anyone who drives past and to all the villagers who live in far smaller houses. It’s not even like it’s a real authentic stately home - it was built about 20 years ago!

When we bought our house, it had a name....themed to go with the river that runs along the one side of the village but we are almost the furthest house away from and way up on a hill. We can't even see the f*ing river from our upstairs windows. We soon went back to the number after several calls from irate delivery drivers saying "i can see the river, where is your house" and me having to direct them 1.5 miles away...... . I did want to use "Far Corfe" as a replacement but DH wasn't having it.

@shotsfired you don't live in skegness by any chance do you?

There was a house in the village where I grew up that had been named by smashing together the first names of the husband and wife who lived there.

Is there room to add FUCK between Sydham and Hall perhaps?

@susurration @shotsfired you don't live in skegness by any chance do you? grin

No but now I am tickled that there are two such lodges

YANBU It's pretty naff, isn't it. What a pair of show-offs.

Get in touch with the council as I'm pretty sure you need planning permission for signs like that as they're distracting to road users.

Please do one of these!

@shotsfired me too!

My friend named their flat "Bullshit Towers" but someone complained so they had to take the sign down

It’s not obnoxious but it is very funny.

That would make me smile every time I passed it.

Bless their hearts.

I live down the road from a new build which has a fancy brick with "est 2015" built into the front wall. It's a lovely house, but that brick is not going to be impressive for at least another 100 years!

I wish everyone would put a big, noticeable sign outside their house with the house name and number on. It'd make my job easier. In fact I wish people would at least put the house number on their bloody houses and have decent letter boxes at waist height. I'm a postie and I've had a shit day.
As you were.....

😂 Who does this? Who wakes up and decides they’re going to name their house a Hall? I don’t give a monkeys what people do really but this would get me sniggering if one of my neighbours did it.

We have friends who had a sign erected that reads “ Xyzton Manor House c1850 ” Everyone just laughs about it as around here 1850 means Victorian farm workers cottages. Everything else is significantly older.

People that put signs up like that normally have very small feet - say no more

A new build in our village was named 'Chapel House' by the new owners - despite the fact there is already a Chapel House (that is linked to the Chapel funnily enough). They have it propped on a wrought iron chair in their front garden. Makes me laugh every time I see it.

We occasionally drive past a mid terrace whose back garden faces onto a main road.

They have painted a big sign on the back fence with the name FOOKEM HALL.

I'm secretly slightly entertained by it but at the same time I think they might be hard work to live next door to because they probably think they are funnier than they really are in that "I'm mad me" way.

Or add a sign saying "Sydham Castle" to your own home.

Or Sydham Palace perhaps?