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

Our house has a name. None of the houses on the lane have names. Delivery drivers hate it as the postcode covers the whole lane, which is over a mile long. One resident tried to give us all numbers, but it never stuck, nobody liked it. The lane didn’t even have a name when I was little, you just put house name, village, postcode. Then one day the council put up a street sign at the end of the road! The houses are 300 yrs old though.

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.

I used to pass a house on a busy main road in Wimbledon (not the posh part - the Tooting end) called The Ponderosa, I rather liked it. Older mumsnetters will get the Bonanza reference!

called The Ponderosa

I wonder if they'd moved from somewhere in the midlands.
There's quite a few Ponderosas where I used to work.

My grandmother used to say:’ nothing nice to add, add nothing’. So if you consider house names beneath your middle class social mores don’t comment on a house name thread.

What's yours called, Gilead?

It's just that my dear old grandma used to say "Don't bother typing on a thread just to moan about other posters if you're not even going to add to the discussion".

She was full of pithy, olde-worlde wisdom like that.

Mostly houses with names made from the blended names of the owners e.g Vinreen or Gazandra.

I've never lived in a named house and I always wanted to, I used to ask my mum and dad when we were little could we please give ours a name and they would just laugh. I like when the names reflect the history of the area.

My grandmother used to say:’ nothing nice to add, add nothing’. So if you consider house names beneath your middle class social mores don’t comment on a house name thread.

I’m sure “NotDunMoanin” is a lovely place

May Cottage. There's another one in the row with another girl's name. The farmer who built them (originally farm worker's cottages) named them after his daughters. I think originally there was only 2 maybe 3 dwellings. Now 6.

The last 3 houses I lived had names, not numbers, too. I like old cottages.

It makes me smile when a house is called Something View But you can only actually see the something by leaning out of a bedroom window and craning.

Posters talking about naming houses being naff aren’t talking about country properties where there isn’t a local numbering system already in place, or houses with historical names. They mean people on Barratt estates renaming their houses ‘The Laurels’ and the like.

It makes me smile when a house is called Something View But you can only actually see the something by leaning out of a bedroom window and craning.

“Oblique View”?

NeighboursWindChimes, there is a nice house near me called Little Buntings
I am now worried about my wind chimes...
😳

I'm totally naming my house Oblique View! 😂😂😂

Unless your house is Chatsworth just use the street number.

Names when a house can already be identified from a postal perspective are usually cringey and/or pretentious.

I think the exception are really old properties, like a cottage in a hamlet or something, whose name probably predates numbering. Even so, using this on your address details if it's also got a number is really naff.

I had a friend whose 1930s semi had a name. He used it on all his printed stationery. He even put the name in quotes. Cringe!

@19lottie82
Naming your house is really wanky. Sorry

Don't be sorry, you do sound a bit jealous though as let's face it, most houses with names are often rather nice. (I'm not talking about naff people who give their 1960's suburban terrace a name) .

My house has a name, it's a very pretty name appropriate to the house. It doesn't have a number as is only one of four in a very rural area. I love it.

Our house has a name. It's the surname of the previous owners Its also a boys name (think Thomas, James, Lewis, etc), and we considered using the name for DS2

in a very rural area. What does that mean?

My house isn't named, but near us we have:
Toll Cottage
The Corner House
Pathways
Sleepy Cottage - think this one was inspired by the Vicar of Dibley
The Roundhouse
Witches Cottage
Old Pub

I like a house with a name myself. In the EM Forster book, 'A room with a view' there are two cottages they are going to let out and they are called women's names and referred to as such and I loved that when I first read it.
We live in a converted pub so our house is the pub name (there are 4 other houses around the old pub yard so we all have numbers too). All the other houses on the village high st are named either after the shops they once were, or the families that lived (in some cases still live) there.
So we have The Drapery, Bank House, Court House, The Bakery, Butchers, The Coffee Pot (love that one) lots more shop names, lots more family names....
My favourite house in the village is one of the oldest and is called 'the Knights House' and it has a big thick studded Game of Thrones style door.

There is a house in a village near me called Passing Winds

BossAssBitch I don’t think having a named house is naff, my house is named because I also live in a rural area. What is naff (IMO) is moving into number 6 Privet Drive & renaming it Privet Lodge.