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

Mine's an old school and it was built before the rest of the houses on street it now sits on. The houses were numbered - starting at one next door to me so I don't have a street number even if I wanted one.

So my house is Old X School.

Naming things 'The Old [Former Use of Building]' Is quite common where street numbers are problematic. I knew of a house called 'The Old Betting Shop' and once came across one called called 'The Old Tourist Information Centre'.

I've lived in my village 30 years and sometimes have no idea, when asked by delivery guys, where certain houses are - and it's often because an incomer has changed the house name to something twee instead of 'The Old Electricity Substation' or whatever.

My friend’s house is called Wits End, we used to live in an old terraced house, next door’s house was called Pillar Box Villa. Very apt !

In my village, most houses have names. Some may have numbers, but not all on a street will. So you'll have No. 8 but will be between Knysna Villa and Star Cottage . Some of the newer areas in the village do have houses with numbers.

Over the years, several houses have served as rectories or vicarages so there is The Rectory and The Vicarage but also The Old Rectory and The Old Vicarage.

Most of the teachers at our one-form-intake primary school do not live in the village. A few years ago, one of them set a maths homework which said to work out all the factors for your street number! In the end, we counted up the letters in our house's name and used that for the number.

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?
Well Vicars and Rectors are not the same thing and, maybe, the new ones didn’t want to ‘put their own stamp’ on the old houses

The only houses that have numbers in our village are on the newish estate.

Our's is "random town House", it's a good drive from where we live but I assume it meant something to the people that named it.

Naming your house is really wanky. Sorry.

Our address doesn’t have a street name. We are House, Village, Postal Town, Postcode.

We are not wanky. You, however, are needlessly unkind.

A lot of large, character older Church of England property was sold off due to expensive running running costs and replaced with more modest, modern accommodation for the vicar. It used to be that the vicarage (church owned and where the actual vicar lived) was the second best house in the village (second to the manor). Not so much now but the ‘old’ vicarages often are beautiful and quite large.

We have Bramble Cottage a few doors down from us, I've always thought it was very sweet.

Where I live we have a lot of old lanes and the houses tend to be named instead of numbered.

Can't believe the rudeness of some posters on this thread.

My parents’ house has a name, when we moved in, it didn’t have a number. They went through all sorts of trouble to get one, because it makes life easier with post/deliveries even online ordering etc. But everyone still calls it by its name otherwise, because that’s just what it’s always been known as. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Our house has a name to - it was given it when it was built before this road had numbers. It was in the middle of nowhere then. We’ve got a number now and just use that, but I rather like its name!

The worst one is ‘Rose Cottage’, I’m an ex nurse and it always makes me cringe.

Our house doesn't have a name out front but when we moved in and got our first letter from the energy company it had a name on the letter plus the number. When you Google the name and the village it doesn't come up though so I'm not sure where they got it from. It's an Edwardian house so I suppose it could be a legit name but that's the only place I've seen it mentioned.

When we were hard up and lived in an old cottage we called it Beam Ends. It had beams, was at the end of a lane and we were skint. (To be on one's 'Beam Ends' means to be down on your luck, poor).

My friends house was huffa house and I always loved it

I knew someone who lived in a city terrace and called their house Sea View Farm.

Our house has a name because it’s hundreds of years old. Most houses in our village are named. Some examples

Rose Cottage
The old White Horse, which I think was once a pub
The Forge
The Lodge

My house has a name. It's the name it was given when it was built. I'm not saying what it is but it's nice and a bit grand. It's a large detached house built in the 20's. I agree naming your Barrett box is a bit naff.

I may be wrong (let's cut to the chase and assume I am; it'll save time).

I think when people have described naming houses as being "wanky" (not my post, not my monkeys opinion), they meant people living at "24, Boring Road" calling their house " 'Cherry Orchards' " or something.

Obviously, if all your house has is a name then it's correct to use it. Eg "Big House, Serfstown" or "The Old Chinese Takeaway, Random Village".

If there's anything "wanky", imo, it's calling "24, Boring Road" "Cherry Orchards, Boring Road"; or, worse, "Cherry Orchards, NonDescript Town".

People do this, then expect some innocent - who's been told to turn up to some random house - to actually find it.

Just admit it's " 'Cherry Orchards, 24, Boring Road, NonDescript Town" and everybody's happy.

Obviously, if it's been called " 'Plague Pit', Neverheardofit Hamlet" since 1423, nobody expects you to call it any different.

Though you may bore people about the "fucking marvellous history" or whatever it was.

I often cycle past a house called Bell End Farm. It always makes me smirk.

Just a side note.
Named houses are a pain in the arse for me (community nurse)
Especially if all the houses are named. I can waste a good half an hour trying to find a patient if there's no numbers to help!

Lol at ppl saying it’s “wanky” Clearly have never lived rurally..

I’ve been inspired by this thread to name my house.
It’s now called Dave

Named houses are a pain in the arse for me (community nurse)

They can be a pain in the arse for those living in them too.

Because my house is 'Old X School' (former church-owned building where X is the name of a saint) and idiot Sat Nav systems can't tell the difference between 'Old X School' and 'Old X Rectory', and delivery drivers haven't got the time (or the wit) to check whether the stuff they are dropping off is actually at the right building, so just dump it and drive off without asking, I often get deliveries for the 'Old X Rectory' which is two miles away.

The worst one is ‘Rose Cottage’, I’m an ex nurse and it always makes me cringe.

Mine was called that when I moved in - 4 Rose Cottage. Next door there’s 5 Pear Cottage and 6 Birch Cottage.
They suit the properties, and area as it’s rural and the properties are quite quaint traditional country style cottages.

I work in healthcare. First thing I did was change it back to 4 and lost the “Rose Cottage” bit because of the healthcare connotations with it!

YesPleaseMary

I’ve been inspired by this thread to name my house.
It’s now called Dave

I've gone all alliteratative:

Hector the House.

I'm just a big old, cuddly old House....

(Good grief, that dates me)

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