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

I have the same issue OP.

"So what number is that?"

"My house doesn't have a number, it's a name (repeats name for 2nd/3rd time)."

🙄

I used to live in a semi detached house - both houses had the same name but ours had no 2 in front of it. A mile down the road were another pair of semis with the same name as ours and also one had no 2 in front of it. Same street name, but different area name. Deliveries were always getting confused!

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

that works fine in densely populated areas - my postcode covers about 30 addresses in three buildings. I rented a holiday cottage in the summer and the postcode covered over a mile of a long road.

The house itself was named on google maps, but in the wrong place, about half a mile away, not great on a busyish unlit road in the dark. And a driver more used to central London with well lit streets.

I dont have a number or street.
My address:
House Name
Village
County
Post Code.

It can be challenging sometimes with deliveries.

I bet he got real sick of you moving houses 🤣

I get people half a mile away on other roads getting annoyed, but without the excuse. They’ll say ‘I’m on xxx street’ and I’ll say but my address is yyyh street’ then they get all angry. It’s mad

You've got to understand that it's obviously more difficult to find a named house than a numbered house. OP you seem to be trying to be helpful but notice that there are lots of people here who live in named houses that are not trying to be helpful which is causing the issue of people not liking named houses. We looked at a new build once, quite a large one, the ones with thin roads that all intertwine. All the houses were named. I don't think I'd have even been able to find my own house if we'd moved there!

You can send Google pins of your exact house location on messenger though if that helps.

The other thing a lot of people don't seem to get (people picking things up from Facebook, marketplace, olio etc) is that it's reasonably common in the UK to have even numbers on one side and odd numbers in the other side of the road.

I used to live on a long straight road at number 54. My side was 3 bed semi detached houses. The other side, the odd numbers, were mostly 2 bed Victorian terraces. So for every 2 even houses, there were 4 or 5 odd houses so the numbers were more and more out of kilter the further down the road you got.

Hence 54 was between 52 and 56, but opposite 125 and 127. The number of people that would message me to say they could see numbers 53 and 55 but couldn't find 54 was ridiculous. That's because 54 is on the other side of the road about 300 metres further down the road.

More than one got angry with me that it wasted their time that they couldn't find the house and didn't understand how the numbers worked even when explained in words a 6 yr old could understand

I used to live in a rural area. Think farm/estate names or historic names like "The Forge" and the people living in it were descended from the village blacksmith going back >150 yrs. No adopted roads, no street lighting.

It's one of the reasons that the 999 centres needed people with local knowledge. Definitely the sort of area where a entering a GPS postcode would give you a radius of several miles. Friends who live in Wales needed a 999 callout. The call handlers knew the area well enough to know to contact a local farm to send someone out to direct an ambulance to the correct driveway, light it up etc.

In more densely populated areas, 999 callouts need not only a number (where available) but they need house numbers to be illuminated so they can find the right one in a reasonable timeframe.

I have to find people's houses when working. A name alone isn't a problem, but occasionally I get people give a house name but it is a self-invented snobby thing as the house has a number and they can't bring themselves to give it!

I agree. OP is just being difficult.

😂 so some people just don't understand that some houses have a name and not a number. It's not usually somewhere where there are 30 houses in the street, that wld be very difficult to locate lol.

The previous owner of my house gave it a name, which I find hilarious as it has a number like all the houses do. I think they were trying to make it all posh by giving it a name. I still get mail for them addressed to said house name 🤷🏻‍♀️

My mum lived on a street with only house names and once when I was doing some research into the area and found an older map that showed the whole area as house numbers instead of names.

The building/block I currently live in has a name but also a street number

Lived in a house like this for a while - no number and no road name! I just used to give people directions, rather than an address if they were coming to the house!

Google Maps doesn't recognise mine. My house has only been here a mere 187 years. Even worse, people try to use the postcode to navigate and end up on a farm track at the top of the village. I always add a very clear delivery note which should have them right outside the gate (one of the posts has a big sign which should then leave them in no doubt).

Even so, the pub landlord struggled to find the place recently to deliver some logs, even though he had done some building work on the house many years ago.

So if I said to you the address, the library was next door, described the house and suggested you used Google maps or any satnav you’d say ‘I want a Google pin?’.
what if the next person wants 3 words
the next uses an iPhone?

surely there’s some point where people can use the reasonable amount of info and just a bit of common sense? If you give me a door number I still use say nav, I don’t actually kerb crawl down the entire road counting…

I lived somewhere where it was house name, village, county. As the house and village shared a name, house name and county would have found me.

You really read this:

I just get annoyed by the persistence, like if they challenge it enough I’ll admit it’s number 23

as though it's a statement that OP actually really does have a house number, but doesn't want to admit it?

Sounds like a massive ballache.

In my country there are houses with no numbers, rurally anyway, but every single address has a unique postcode-type number, so that makes it a lot easier.

Our road has some house numbers in the wrong order.
Imagine 24, 22 18, 20 16.
This really does cause some confusion. 🤣

Personally I have no problems with named houses like the OP's. I do however think it's a bit daft when a numbered house has an additional (pointless) name.

t’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.

Haha I wasn't imagining a problem, I was laughing at the other guys comment.

Can't understand why anyone would be pissed off with 'red door, next to the library' - easier than a number surely!

Also just remembered that the second word of our old house's name was 'Elm', but because of my sloppy writing it went into the school database as 'Emu'.

I agree. OP is just being difficult

Ah, another non-reader has entered the chat.

When my relative worked for a taxi company, they had their own maps of the local roads and the house names on them. Really helpful, there's a few roads round here with no house numbers.

Well I guess it explains to the type of person who I’m having issues with on Facebook marketplace 🤷‍♀️