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

they meant people living at 24, Boring Road calling their house Cherry Orchards or something
I live in Cherry Orchards, 24 Boring Road. It’s always been Cherry Orchards since it was built over 120 years ago. It hasn’t, however, always been 24. The numbering system was imposed upon it, and the other very old houses that predated the modern estates that were built on and around two defunct/demolished farms. The ’new’ houses (1960’s) had numbers so someone decided the old original houses had to have a number too. Only some including Grade II and II* and those dating from the 16th/17th/18th century escaped numbering. Initially they technically had a number but were still known by name. Over the years as new owners move in etc most still have their original names but are now known by the number. Residents, like us, that have lived here for years, still know them as Forge Cottage, Mill House etc.

Our house is called Middle House. Fitting name donkeys years ago when there was our house plus two others.

There's now 7 houses between us a High house and 2 between us a Low Cottage. They're all numbered and named so it's always confusing when there's a new postie

Avondale (one of 3)

Ooh! Did my fucking marvellous history house, market town, rural backwater irritate someone?

If it helps get over the little green devile l, it was cheap compared with the new builds round here... in an area that is already considerably cheaper than the national average. But I do love living in a house that is older than Henry Viii

Judashascomeintosomemoney

I initially thought you were making quite a good joke, so was about to respond to you in that vein.

Having re-read your response, I'm not totally sure

You're either very funny (in a dead pan) way or haven't understood/properly read my post.

Please tell me it's the former.

Our house has a name (1930s) but it's only on the council tax paperwork. We go by number.

But because our bungalow was built after the rest of the street (Early Victorian terraces) we got an 'a', so 51a which sounds like a flat even though it's a detached property.

CuriousaboutSamphire

Parvenue

Our place is called Windyridge. It is aptly named.

My house has never had a number neither has the one next door all the other houses in the road have and I don't understand this.
My house is called The Lodge and it and the house next door were built in the 1950's. The other houses in the road were built in the 1960's 70's and 80's

All of the houses on our road have names because they are old. The road's about 2 miles long and links two villages. I wish they'd give the houses numbers because it's a pain when delivery drivers can't find you. A road in the village is named after our house and most delivery drivers seem to end up in that road rather than at our house despite the road having a totally different postcode, then they ring me and I have to talk them down to me while I wander out to the roadside and wave frantically so they don't drive past .

It's a rural road and most of the houses are called X Farmhouse or Y Cottage.

The houses named for people do not have apostrophes because they were there before the apostrophe came into usage, so Bennets Farmhouse, Gordons Cottage etc.

Very few with numbers here either and I agree with everyone who has said it would make it easier for deliveries. Names include:
Avondale, Rivendale, Greengates, The Gleddings, Oakwood, Forest Gate, Rose-Lea and Rose-Lea Cottage

My house a lovely but unusual name, so much so that if you googled it you'd find me!
However the other day I walked past Tuksumdoin. I think that translates as Took Some Doing, meaning buying was a hard slog.

There's only one house on this lane with a number. It's number 5. It isn't the 5th house. Delivery drivers get very confused - it's worse in the dark with no street lights as they can't read the house names for the rest of us, by then.

You're either very funny (in a dead pan) way or haven't understood/properly read my post. Please tell me it's the former.
merely adding to the thread to say sometimes a house can legitimately have both a number and a name. What an odd response.

Judashascomeintosomemoney

You're either very funny (in a dead pan) way or haven't understood/properly read my post. Please tell me it's the former.

confused merely adding to the thread to say sometimes a house can legitimately have both a number and a name. What an odd response.

Right.

Sorry to confuse you.
In my opinion, if a house legitimately has a name and number, both should be used.
I was pointing out that if a house has a number it's best to use it.
If people want to slap on a name too, that's their prerogative.
But when people then omit the number, it makes life difficult for those trying to find the place.
If it had a name first, then a number, again use both.
So I agree with you.

Apologies again - I genuinely thought you were being dryly humorous.
Combination of your posting style and my perception perhaps.

I live in a northern national park, two of my favourites are Bell End and Dick Intake.

Arachnids' Lair

I'm sure you can guess why

The other evening when trying to sleep I began researching the history of our house. Apparently I’m the 30s it was called Rosebank and when it was built in 1901 it was called Capri.

I found out a little while after moving in that our house was called The Haven for the first forty years or so if it’s life. I really like it and am considering reinstating the name.

There are no numbers and no street names in our village and every house has a name dating back centuries - drives delivery drivers mad trying to find places!

Our house was named after the field it was built on in the 17th century 😊

A friend at school lived in a house called 'Chaos Corner'.

There is a house in a village near us called Tuksumduin .

why would you tell strangers on a forum the name of your house? probably not a good idea!

@gingganggooleywotsit probably because most the names given so far are very very common and could be one of several houses of the same name all over the uk...

We're not posh enough to have a house with a name, but my favourite is a house in the town of Much Wenlock, called Bastard Hall

I smile every time I see this one on a visit.