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

[EncyclopediaOfNought]

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

My house name is simple and descriptive. Imagine like ‘The green house’, and it is

Its a fucking pain in the arse to not have house numbers. I expect people are just venting because most people dont have time to spend half a fucking hour driving slowly down roads to try and squint and find the right one.

We have this too. Sometimes have to put 'no name' in the road name box because it won't accept an empty box. Small rural village.

It is indeed mad! The road we lived on was about five miles long and covered about five different rural areas - only about two of them were populated enough to be called villages really! But people not used to living rurally don’t get it! I live in a village now and the main road through has a number of no 1s, but all followed by the house or row name. So if someone asked for no1 Main Road, there’s quite a few to choose from!!

My in laws are the same. Everyone has a number

This.

Used to be a home carer and learnt to phone the office if I got a house name rather than a number to ask to speak to the person who did the initial assessment for the location. I always seemed to get a first visit to a named rather than numbered house planned for in the dark making it particularly difficult to find. Numbered properties can be just as difficult to find if they are set back from the road, on a mature estate and everyone has grown hedges for privacy! My absolute worst number to find was one that was the last of an old estate with new builds all around it, that was incredibly confusing to locate!

It turns out that the historical name for where we live was Mount Misery - from soldiers serving sentry duty - I am thankful we have street numbers and a different suburb name.

It's not unusual not to have numbers around here and it's such a nuisance. Long country roads with just names and Google takes you nowhere near.I have to do alot of house calls and I don't understand why some people don't make their house signs huge ,clear readable and well lit. Some don't bother at all ( yes really)

Not peoples fault if they don't have a number but they should have the common sense to make it as easy for visitors and the emergency servies as possible.
I turn some jobs down because finding the house will be so difficult at night and some house owners have such a casual attitude as to how difficult it actually is.

I think maybe try a stint working as a delivery driver of some sort for a month or two............ then you'll understand why people ask and ask for your house number.

Would the what.three.words reference help people to find your location?

I work in other people's houses every day. Across a very rural area. Many house names, wide areas covered by one postcode. Usually with very little phone signal.

You get used to it. Keep an eye on the parts of roads with decent signal strength so you can call the client for directions.

It's part and parcel of the geography. Nobody needs get angsty about it.

See that changes things. If you’ve said your house is next door to the library and that the road doesn’t have numbers, then they’re indeed being unreasonable to insist on a number.

Urgh I used to have a job Involving finding houses.

If you have a house number 23, then I know I've overshot it if I was at house number 40, and if the numbers are going down .
I can drive fairly quickly if I'm at house number 353, and slow as I get closer

If the house is "oak house", I've got no idea if when I hit "cherry tree house" I've gone too far, or not gone far enough. Do I turn left or turn right? What house do I start slowing down at? You end up having to crawl along the road reading tiny signs

It is a pain if you aren't local or not familiar with the road

Guernsey has barely any house numbers and people give directions based on landmarks that are no longer there:

we are maison belle, St Andrews lane. Turn left where the bakery used to be and go down past the old infants school. Turn left at the gate by the cows…

impossible unless you know these places! Google maps wasn’t accurate by
postcode.

Ahem should read
If your house number 23, and im at house number 40, i know ive over shot it. If im at house 40 and the numbers are going down then im in the right direction

Agreed.
Why is it so hard to understand that it's much easier to find houses on numbered streets no matter how fantastic the directions or how much Google mapping you are doing?

Not all properties with numbers like 12C are modern.

A couple of people I know live in large Victorian houses with numbers like 7A and 12C. They have looked up the history of their houses.

In the Victorian era former farm land was divided into numbered plots. Then houses were built on each plot. The houses were given the plot number than commonly A, B, C but sometimes up to E.

I live in a house with only a name no number. All the houses have names. You can't see our house from the road which is probably even more annoying for delivery drivers. I put extreme detail in the delivery instructions to help.
Only thing that does annoy me is when ordering things over the phone and people getting angry you have no house number as if I'm lying.

It's not uncommon round my way.

There are also a few villages that have one road with a name (usually "The Street" lol) and all the others just have the house and village name.

One village has a road through it that is known by everyone locally as Village Name Lane, but according to google maps is Different Village Name Road. The road sign agrees with the former and Different Village is a mile or two away and on the far side of a major trunk road.

God only knows how anyone delivers there if they're relying on google maps.

Alternatively why is it so hard to understand that some houses, whole areas, do not have, never have had numbers.

It isn't as easy as popping a number on the gate. And some councils prefer house names, even in new builds, if that is in keeping with the area.

They could’ve just called the new houses 6a, 6b, 6c etc. I’ve seen a road where that was done.

They could’ve just called the new houses 6a, 6b, 6c etc. I’ve seen a road where that was done.

@Whoneedsleep and everyone else where couriers have trouble finding your house - as several people have already said, use a What 3 Words address. Most couriers are familiar with it.

I want a like for that snippet of information. I didn't know that. It's still the case that a number system needs to accommodate new properties in the middle of the range (or subdivision of existing properties).

I'd have more sympathy for the delivery drivers if my experience of living at places like #23 didn't include unwanted deliveries for #32 on the other side of the flippin' road.