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

Most of them around here are named after trees and plants.

Wood House
Wood Cottage
Rose Cottage
Rose House
Oak House

Etc etc all very boring actually

Alan. No not really, I do have my eye on 'bumblebee cottage' when I rightmove browse though

Mine doesn’t have a name officially but all my friends call my house The Crypt, as I’m very into the gothic look.

All of the houses in our village have names. No numbers. And none of the roads have names, just numbers. Makes it very confusing if you get someone’s post in error as all 80-ish houses have the same postcode.

It's easy to stereotype people who name their houses as the pretentious type skin to those with personalised vehicle reg. But our house had a name as its registered postal address when we bought it, and as it was built after most houses in the road, can't logically have a number.

Well, to be honest, a number would be good as it makes it easier to find. To keep the sequence, we'd have to be "Minus One", which I quite like but others might find it a bit odd. (ha, odd, geddit?! )

akin not skin

I also think naming a house is a bit wanky... But it's most wanky when you just live on a normal street, where the other houses have numbers.

The exception to naming a house is if you live rurally, when houses are either wide-spaced or higgledy-piggledy around the land. Then a name can be useful for identification purposes, getting deliveries etc.

Mum parents moved into a rural home in a tiny hamlet that was named by the previous owner, but it's just "Name-of-hamlet Barn", because it's a converted barn...

The house name I've always found most wanky belonged to the parents of a childhood friend of mine. They lived about halfway down a fairly long, residential street, of large-ish, established homes. No new builds or anything. They moved in and named the house "Uplands" for literally no reason. If anything, their road was on a bit of a hill, and they lived almost at the bottom!

Thinking back though, it doesn't surprise me in the slightest that they chose to name their house. They were THAT sort of "oooooh look at us!" family.

Ok , obviously sticking my head above the parapet here . We have been meaning to name out home since we had it built 8 years ago. We live in a cul de sac of a mix of houses and bungalows and most are named.
Ours is one of the bungalows . We live close to a river and a few houses reference this , think Thames View , Thames Side etc . One Bungalow is called The Bungalow so that's out ( not keen on the name anyway )
I quite like it to be xxx Croft .
Any ideas ?

Don’t know if this true but I once read about some people whose house had views of Corfe castle, they got so fed up of tourists blocking their drive to take photos of the castle they named their house Far Corfe. I really hope it IS true 😂

Love that! 😂

I'm not giving my house name on here, too identifying. It is rural and was already named when we bought it. There aren’t many numbered houses around here.

My house had a silly, Antipodean-sounding name when we first moved in. We still get Christmas cards for the previous owner marked with that address.

The first thing I did on moving here was throw the sign in the bin and revert to the street number.

'Nice House' really made me laugh!

I love the idea of a named house! Ours is just a boring number.

Ours is called St Elmo

Mind it doesn't catch fire.

Does anyone know how I can find out the original name of my house? It’s around 150 years old and is now numbered in line with new builds that have been built around it. It seems likely that it originally was named.

It can be naff if you have a number. There are no house numbers on our road, so the houses have names.

Ours is Riverbank Cottage, which is a bit embarrassing as it isn't really on the River! I think it makes us look a bit bonkers, but I can't be bothered to change it - it would be a complete pain.

It was the Cottage to the large house next door which used to be called Riverbank House. It had large grounds that went to the river. The grounds have been sold off and built on. There is a block of flats between us and the river. The original house has changed its name (and not to a name it works well to match with X Cottage). So we are stuck all by ourselves with our name, looking slightly deluded!

No name here sadly, but would love to do a Jack and Vera Duckworth one day and call my very suburban house The Olde Rectory or similar.

I used to often drive past a house in a row of tiny, slightly run-down terraces that was called 'Graceland', like Elvis's mansion. I always thought I'd quite like to go for a drink with the people that lived there. I bet they were good fun!

My house has a name and no number - however I think it is because the house was built before the road.

I sometimes wonder whether people who give their house a name on a numbered street (Foxes Hollow, 35 Regular Street) get cross if someone doesn't use the name when they write to them.

Kincead
Apple Tree Court
October Cottage
Balmoral
Squirrel's Leap
Badger's Drift
Mistletoe
Everdeen
Meadowsweet
Chilterns
Birches
Midsomer

Summer Croft
Oak Croft
Holly Croft
Hollycroft
Redcroft

Raella50 look it up on the census?

Oh and try to find an old map of your locality, library would be able to help when they are open...

I don't get how it's wanky. We live on a farm road where there are no house numbers and no street name so ours does have a name, otherwise we wouldn't be able to have an address!

I like the idea of wanky cottage
or sorry house
or maybe
mumsnet place?

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