To think it’s not that unusual to have no door number?

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My house has a name, no number. I frequently have the issue where people get rude over it, especially through Facebook marketplace and Olio etc.

I give the full address, they ask for the number, I clarify the house has a name: ok at this point.

Then then frequently persist and get rude. ‘I need the actual door number’, ‘um, just give me the number’, ‘look at your neighbours house, your number will be the one after that!’ (No houses have a number on this thread road), ‘oh that’s nice you have a name for it, but what’s the number’, ‘yeah, people think it looks smart but what’s the number’m the post office use’

Just now I’ve had ‘I’m not coming unless I get the number’. For a free item 😂

Is it that damn hard to get that not all houses have numbers??? Or is it the classic Aibu attitude of people, basically not getting that not everyone lives in exactly the same world?

Obviously more houses have numbers than not, but it’d have thought the average adult is aware that not every house has? I have an otherwise normal road in a city, only a handful of houses for the postcode so not that hard to find. Google maps etc are exactly accurate in pinpointing the house

So you’re a bit of wannabe snob then ? if your house is between 21 and 25 , you are 23, don’t care if you paid for plaque that says “ blue stone manor” on it , you’re number 23 not sure why you don’t tell people that right from the beginning

Literally OP said in her first post that none of the houses on her street have numbers. Should she just make some random numbers up for fear of appearing snobbish?

Mine too! It's a 70s bungalow, not a gorgeous old thatch cottage! So I think that's part of the reason people seem to be annoyed it has a name!! (But it's not my fault!!!!!!!!!!)

No, you don't have to walk to every house. You can stop when you find the one you're looking for 😂

Google maps also shows mine.

house numbering started in the early 1700s. Many houses built before this, particularly those which are rural and in a large parcel of land don’t have names.

the postcode takes you there, and will thus only cover a small number of houses.

It’s a city. The library is next door and the door is right on the pavement with a big sign in plain letters. There’s no need to imagine problems. There’s really none. Just the idea of a name though sets people right off imagining issues. Even if you describe it all

I’m what way is she a snob?? She’s clearly stated in the OP that she only has a house name and not a number so what else is she supposed to use?

In the countryside it is all names:

Home Farm/Home Farm Cottage/Home Farm Barn;
Rose Cottage/Hazel Cottage/Holly Cottage;
The Oaks/The Firs/The Poplars;
Mrs Jones Cottage/Miss James' Cottage/Miss Roberts' Cottage;
The Olde Smithy/The Olde Bakery/The Olde Dairy;
Windy Ridge/Hilltop/West Winds;
[village name] Manor/[village name] House/[village name] Cottage.

OP why not look up your What 3 words location (what3words.com) and give this to everyone. I feel your pain but this has been a game changer here.

So you’re a bit of wannabe snob then ? if your house is between 21 and 25 , you are 23, don’t care if you paid for plaque that says “ blue stone manor” on it , you’re number 23 not sure why you don’t tell people that right from the beginning

what a silly post. None of her neighbours have numbers. Neither do mine.

if you put my house in google maps you can zoom in and actually see it. It’s hardly difficult.

have you tried using the "What3words app"
I understand that it's from a system initially developed for the emergency services - narrows the location down two about two meters (so I get several options moving about the flat, and another at the street door for the block.

My default for when postcode/google maps isn't precise enough.
www.virtuallocation.com

It’s much more unusual than having a number, especially if you didn’t grow up in the countryside. Also, you do sometimes get houses on numbered streets, so I can see why people think there might be a number. But they’re rude to keep going on. It is hugely annoying to find a named unnumbered house though. Even if yours is clearly labelled, others probably aren’t and you have to kerb crawl down the whole road peering at houses.

She also said "ill give in and admit it's number 23"

Loads of houses where I’m from have names and no numbers, just the way it is because they are random houses that have popped up on bits of land over a long number of years, so there would be no way to number them as they aren’t in a conventional ‘street’. But it’s pretty common here so people are used to it so don’t get annoyed thankfully!

Jesus, it’s a joke. Saying they imagine I’ll give in and admit- because there is no number. They are just determined there must be.

You haven't actually read the post have you, even though you just quoted it in full? If the road doesn't have numbers then the OP can't magic one up out of thin air.

I feel so sorry for delivery drivers around here, all names, no numbers. But it's a village and has always been thus.

My friend lives in a house with no number, there are only two houses in the road with no numbers and they are both between numbers 1 and 2. It drives everyone mad.

No she was using that as an example of what she thinks the caller wants her to say, as if she is going to 'give in' and say a number

There is no number

I dont know how to do screen shots or things like that, but there are 3 long roads like this at St Margarets at Cliffe, all bloody names and no numbers, often hidden behind a hedge or campervan. Awful

See I used to do deliveries and the amount of people when you called them up while lost that said "oh its number 23 but we don't use that" was infuriating so I took your joke as not a joke because people do actually do that!

Which I assume to OP made as a joke as in if I just give up and say a random number they’ll be content even if it doesn’t exist.

My house (name with no number) was one of 2 bungalows on a village road when it was built, 2 housing estates have now been built around it & the original road doesn't physically get to our house anymore so we're still the original name but now on 'Furryscoob drive' rather than 'Furryscoob lane'

Anyone who gets really snotty with me & wants the house number gets given the original address & postcode where their sat nav will take them down a road that ends with a brick wall.

As a lifelong city dweller, I find roads full of twee house names and no numbers really annoying. Then there's all that faffing about with their "easy" directions like "it's just to the left of the sycamore tree" or "if you get to the cottage with the blue door you've gone too far". But buyers on FB marketplace etc trying extract a number from you when they don't exist is weird.

I might try that in addition. I think though it’s just a mental block.

I tend to say
-full address
-state the library is next door to me
-add the colour of the front door
-reassure Google maps etc is accurate if they use that

but they just start imagining problems and ignore whatever I say. I imagine what three words would trigger more fuss with many, ‘I don’t use that’

We live in the west of Ireland - until 2015 we had no house number, no house name, no street name and no Eircode (Irish postcode equivalent). Now we have an Eircode, but still no name, number, nor street name. We lived in three different houses in our first year here, and kept the same address throughout. How did it work? The postman found us by our surname. Luckily (or unluckily, depending on point of view) there are no delivery services here, other than the post - so no lost pizzas!

Mine is a bit similar. There was no Road and it’s been since reconfigured and built up and absorbed into a city. It’s not a particularly twee or old Worldy house. It has a 1930s front after damage to the original and looks pretty average for the area.