To ask what your houses name is?

[NegativeNellyy]

We live in a village where a lot of the houses are named and we are in a house that is not named :(

The village has ;

Counting house cottage
The old school house
The crescent
Hillside
The Old Rectory
The rectory
The vicarage
The old vicarage
Nice house

Cartref
Cuckoo cottage
Jasmine cottage
Foxes bolt
The insane Asylum

There’s a house near my grandmother’s called ‘Dick and Eileen’!

@starfishmummy
Cross post - same house name! I wonder why St Elmo was a popular name choice for a house.

Why is it wanky? the houses in our village don’t have numbers except for a handful of them and the majority are named.

Ael- y - bryn (Brow of the hill). We may or may not have a mountainside house 😂

None of the roads in our village have names, so, wanky or not, if you want to receive your post you need to give your house a name. I suppose you could pick a random number, but would it be any less wanky to call your house Twenty Three than Seaview?

Teach an aoire
"The shepherd's house"
We live on a sheep farm in Ireland 🐑

There’s a house next estate from me that is called “house with a yellow door”. And it does indeed have yellow door. I think it’s cute.

House names are essential where a street is not numbered. Usually in rural areas.

Where a street is numbered you can add a name to the official address by contacting the Street Naming and Numbering Officer at your local council (they are the person in charge of official addresses), they can also change the name of an unnumbered house.

They will notify the Land Registry and anyone else who needs to know, however Royal Mail will ignore the name, they only go by number if there is one. There is a national database of official addresses but many companies still use the Royal Mail database.

But you CANNOT remove the number from the official address. The reason is that numbers make it much easier for the emergency services to find a property.

I always used to love doing house names, the reasons were often fascinating.

All the houses on our end of the street have names. I'd live to know how far back they go, though I suspect most of them are Victorian. The house are all older. I live in an end of terrace: all 4 houses in the terrace have similar names so we have to check carefully when someone needs our address. Local Postie is fab, delivery drivers get very confused when told the large box of wine is for next door but one. Same name with one extra word. We are all named after some old trees which are actually in our garden.
Some of the other local names refer to the past use - the Old Forge, Wheelwright's Cottage and Post Office Cottage. The other end of the road has some numbers but we don't.

I once lived very temporarily,in a tiny little shack type cottage, it was called The Stockmans Cottage,and was formally a little cow barn. It was very tiny, and had some wooden stairs,with a rope type bannister,to get to a little galley type bedroom,with holes in the roof, that the wind blew through. Other than that, have never had a house with a name, even after moving house about 12 times in my life.

I like house names for rural areas. I'm not going to tell everyone the name of ours on here, though! We recently found out that our house had a different name altogether when it was first built.

We just have a number. I so want to give our house a name as others near us have them, but DH doesn't agree and thinks it's wanky, so a number it is

I live very rural. There is a house near me that is called the ugly house by everybody. It's not it's official name. It's often used for directions. I personally don't think it's ugly it's reminds me of an american barn house.

Most of the houses in my little hamlet have names. But I don't think anyone knows them. Most families have been here for generations. They are usually just called the owners name house. My house is still called the last owners name. Eg The Stewart house. They died over 20 years ago. I have been here about that long but I'm still one the newest residents.

I used to live in a house called The Uncertainty Principle 🤣

I didn’t name it btw and it also had its own door number for extra wanker points.

Ours actually has a name (not an ancient one as the house is modern) but we decided not to use it because it has a perfectly good number.

Our house has had three names. I preferred the first but we won't be changing it.

These all sound dreadfully twee and unoriginal, except for the Insane Asylum which sounds great.

I once heard of an older couple who named their house Bell End.

It’s wanky adding a house name if you have a number. I once passed a house in Bromley on an ordinary residential road called Shangri-la Utopia.

OP how can you have the Old Rectory, the Old Vicarage, The Rectory AND the Vicarage all in one village?! Have some of them just been made up names?

We looked at buying half of an old vicarage and in the covenants were the agreement that we would never imply the vicar lived there by implying in any way it was a vicarage (it had been renamed, The Oaks or something like that).

MaybeMaybeNotJ

My old one we named Wonky Cottage
Nothing was straight 😂

lottie82

Naming your house is really wanky. Sorry.

Unfortunate juxtaposition of posts.
Now wondering if one of these was a mistype

I appreciate that if a house doesn't have a number it needs a name - relatives live in house called something like: "Relatives' House, Village Name".
And if you put their postcode into a search, that's what comes up.

What is wanky, imo, is calling a numbered house by a name, then pretending it never had a number and insisting your address is "Dunchavin, Aspiration Street" instead of "Dunchavin, 261 Aspiration Street.

It's a bugger for people who have to do eg home visits.

Our house name is a portmanteau of the first names of the couple who lived here before us - I won’t say what it is as I’m pretty sure it’s unique but their names were Shirley and Derek. It’s utterly cringey and I hate it! But it’s tricky to change back as my DP’s business email and other things are linked to the house name now.

I have to visit clients at home on occasion and I hate named houses because there's no hint as to where they might be in the road - inevitably it will be the kind of road where the houses are vast and widely spaced, and I have to drive slowly up and down looking like a potential burglar on the prowl. When I'm in charge all house names will have to be in alphabetical order 😂

Shrek?

Why not name your house something?

Why is it wanky?

Life is too short to conform to a number, if you want to name your house name away!

I used to live in a house called 'The freesias' its my mum's favourite flower.

I love a house name. Why not have something a bit more interesting than a number?

Our house, built in the 30s used to be called Petersburg. Didn’t find out until we had some work done on the sandstone over the front door.

There is a house a few streets away called Strathoursurname. Our friends would have thought us such pretentious wankers if we’d bought that one!