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

Crap Shack

Doo Town Tasmania names it's houses on the 'Doo theme'. Here are the names

Af-2-Doo, Da Doo Ron Ron, Didgeri-Doo, Doo-All, Doo Come In, Doodle Doo, Doo Drop In, Doo For Now, Doo Fuck All, Doo I, Doo-ing it easy, Doo Little, Doo Luv It, Doo-Me, Doo Nix, Doo Nothing, Doo Often, Doo Us, Doo Us Too, Doo Write, Gunnadoo, Humpty Doo, Just Doo It, Love Me Doo, Make Doo, Much-A-Doo, Rum Doo, Sheil Doo, This Will Doo, Thistle Doo Me, Wattle-I-Doo, Wee-Doo, Xanadu, Yabba Dabba Doo.[4][5][6]

There's a house near me called The Comma. It puzzles me.

We live in an old house and it's called Didsbury. I'm not keen so we use No.3!

Our neighbours called their house 'Jokamikenid'. It was an amalgam of the whole family's first names. We lived on a council estate so no surprise there.

LuckyDiesel

Sorry - what's the healthcare connection (I'm missing something clearly 🙄)

All names here, no numbers, and some don't even have a sign up.

I live in a street of Edwardian semis with names engraved in the stone above the door. ours is called ‘Newfield’ next door is ‘Enisdale’ and the other side is ‘Daisy Bank’ all the others in street have other equally random names. Street is numbered as well in the usual way. I’ve often wondered who chose these names and why - the first occupants of the houses?

@StoneofDestiny Rose Cottage is a common euphemism for the hospital mortuary. So after a patient has died the ward staff apparently can ring the porter to ask them to take Mrs Bloggs to Rose Cottage. I suppose its to avoid upsetting other patients who might overhear

@GiveUsACoffee Broccoli Bottom is BEYOND wonderful.

MrsAvocet

Wow - never heard of that before. Thanks for the info

I also live in an Edwardian semi.

The house is called Rose Villa, but I didn’t actually notice until about a year after we moved in - it’s engraved in the stone work on the front garden gatepost and has been painted so many times you can barely make it out.

Next door is called Primrose something (not villa)

(Yes, my username was inspired by a wanky house names thread years ago, and before I moved into a house with a name!)

My house has a name, and no number, but it’s several hundred years old and that’s always been it’s name since it was built. There are no numbers here, If I started calling it a random number instead, it would be daft and yes, wanky...🤣

I do agree though naming a numbered (and often modern) house isn’t really a classy thing to do.

It has to be one or the other, if it’s always had a name, keep the name, if it’s always had a number, keep the number. You don’t name it like it’s your first born,,,

I don't call it this, its not used as our address, but its in the stained glass above the door of my Edwardian terraced house: Valetta. Better than my next door neighbour's: Haroldene.

I only know because I worked in a hospital years ago StoneofDestiny and I used to hear the nurses saying it. Except on ICU where they used to say they had a patient to transfer to Level 5. ICU was on level 4 which was the top floor in the hospital. There were quite a lot of code words!

"Naming your house is really wanky. Sorry."

It's a countryside thing. Some houses don't even have streets, how would would they be identified without a name?
It's not posh either. The council house I lived in as a child had a name.

Walked past a house called Lake View the other day, the Lake in question is actually a reservoir so it made me laugh.

Lime Lodge

I grew up there, not my current house. It was painted lurid yellow- we called it lemon lodge.

Near where I was born is a house which used to be the curate's house. It's now known as Parson's Farewell, which is also the name of a folk-dance tune (inhabited by folk-dance enthusiasts).

We took the name off ours when we moved in as it was ridiculous to have a name on a small 1980s estate house. It was never legally named anyway.

@LaMarshallin parvenu e

J' arrive, I tells ya!

Christmas Cottage

I used to live in a house called Evenlode Cottage. Which was fine - it suited the name however, the Evenlode river it was named after was at least a mile away from the cottage so the link was tenuous at best! 😂

The Oaks. I didn’t name it, it’s been named that since the house was built in 1880. We don’t use it on our address anywhere.