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

Free manure

I live in a village which is a single road so no road name. All the houses are named not numbered and a few are set a long way back from the road. Basically everyone’s address is “house name, village”. We regularly have to exchange parcels because some poor driver has just given up. Some enterprising soul recently mapped the house names for the village WhatsApp which has been remarkably useful.

Obviously a new, one use only name for this but sooo many of our family homes have been named rather than street addresses.

Lower Paddock House
Barnfield
Crockroy Cottage
Shepherds Cottage
The Rigg House
The Kirkland
Nethercairn
Knockenjig Cottage

Scottish places except the first.
Farms round here have some fantastic names. Meikle Aucherngibbert being one I've seen in passing.

Naming your house is really wanky. Sorry.

The postman seems to appreciate it. Otherwise, he would be aimlessly wandering around the village wondering which letterbox to put post through.

I've known a 'Peartree Cottage' and Then Hermitage'

My 1930's semi has it's name etched in glass above the front door. It only had a name when it was built but it has had a number since the 1940's when the local authority numbered the road. I have the old paperwork about this in with my deeds

I don't ever use the name but I sometimes think I should to avoid the confusion that is caused by the fact that for some strange reason the numbers don't run as they should ( eg if our house is 25 , the house we are attached to is 27 as you would expect but the house the other side is 21 so 23 is completely missed out)

My 1930's house is actually called Mortehoe but we never used it, we only found out when the land registry sent us the old paperwork when we remortgaged

Mortehoe is a village in north Devon, the neighbouring houses had similar themed names but nobody uses them now.

There's a road near me with lots of houses all called Holly something - Holly Cottage, Holly House, Holly Grange, Holly Tree House, Holly Mount House. Must be confusing for the postie!

There's a lot in Wales called Cartref which literally means home

Raella50 Check your land registry certificate as an old conveyance might refer to a house name, other than that look at old maps for you area or tax records. Lots of them available online and the National Archive at Kew is especially useful. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
It's worth remembering though that not all houses will ever have had names; depends less on size than location and when it was built.

No numbers on our village road - names I can think of are:

Field View
Hilltop
Highfield

(Can you tell it’s an agricultural area on a hill!!)

Conifers
Brambles

There's a lot in Wales called Cartref which literally means home

There are a lot of places in Wales called Gorsaf, judging from the number of railway stations with that name.

I used to live in the end cottage of a terrace of three, all painted pink. We called it "Belle End" but in our defence we were immature university students!

My house doesn't have a number, although my neighbour's houses do.
It doesn't have a nameplate, either.

@Raella50 sometimes the local library have old Kelly street directories which give the names & occupation of some residents, my house has a name as so most of the houses in my Road, all late Victorian houses a lot of thirties houses also have a name, my house was built in 1885 & for about three years had no number until more houses were built in the Road was assigned the number in about 1888, I don’t use the name but it looks pretty above the front door which is the original one & has stained glass panels.

I live in an inner city terrace. It would be the very epitome of wankiness to give it a name.

Only country cottages or stately homes should have names.

A family member lived in Christmas tree house (they didn't name it)

Le Moulin du Milieu

Many of the house names on the island are French/ Guernesiais though, numbers are really only on a few clos.

Um, in villages there often aren't any numbers, just names. A cottage up the road is Wits End which makes me cringe rather #innersnob

Most houses in this village are named, no numbers.

Ours is called Glendale. I've no idea why.

Wanky? Our house has had the same name since it was built - in about 1500.

No, no typo (dendrochronolgy is being done by a local historic homes group). It's the pub that was the start of the secular village here. It's now a small market town, with a modernised version of the house name.

That's not wanky... that's fucking amazing history!

We only have names too. And no road name either.

So we are just

House name
Hamlet name
Town
Postcode

Not an actual name for the post, but we tongue in cheek refer to it as Windy Bottoms

All the houses in our road (and most of the rest of the village) have names. We;ve inherited a pretty stupid name which everyone reads wrongly AND the house name has a number in it (think 12 Days of Christmas though not that dreadful) and is next to the only two numbered houses in the whole lane which are numbers, say, 12 and 11 so our post often goes to the grumpy neighbour.

I wanted to change it when we moved in but the name is vaguely linked to fortune and as it's apparently bad luck to rename a house, I decided not to. Wish we had done though!