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

Exactly the same here. No street name or number, just house name then village name.

Our address is house name, village, postcode so no road name etc. It is also Welsh. None of the houses around us have numbers so we can’t work out a number it would be. Does throw people who are not local

It's normal where we live, but I agree it's a pain in the arse and if we were actually given a house number we would most definitely use it.

We don't even live in a village (1.2 miles from the nearest hamlet and auto-address finders default to our nearest delivery hub, 23 miles away!). I have directions on my phone and laptop that get cut and paste into every delivery instruction box. The only problems we have is when the delivery instructions aren't passed to the courier.

I've sold or given away a number of things via Facebook over the 12 years we've lived here and no one has ever demanded a number though. That's odd. But possibly because it's normal for here and not where OP lives.

Many years ago my DM's friend lived in a named new-build house on an infill plot. She used to describe it as 'House-Name, between numbers 35 and 37'. After some months there the woman on the opposite side of the road at number 36 asked her to stop doing it because she was getting so many couriers and visitors turning up at her house!

The OP has said “I have an otherwise normal road in a city.” She lives in a city. As a Londoner, I find it pretentious AF for someone to not have a house number. It’s a countryside thing. It’s understandable if you live in a small village or hamlet. But if you actually live in a city then it’s ridiculous.

None of the houses on my street have numbers either. Never been an issue for any of the Amazon/DPD etc deliveries. Sometimes get a call from a takeaway delivery guy and we have to direct him down from the pub on the corner and stand on the road.

I grew up in a hamlet with just house name, village, postcode. No house number or street name.
This was before satnav so we were very good at giving directions.

Because people don't understand that in the UK, whether in a town, city or rural area, there is no standard way of writing the beginning part of an address.

So for example "12C Orchard Road" could be a detached Victoria house, a flat or a unit on an industrial site. "The Limes" could be a residential house, an office building or a care home.

And I haven't got to the end of addresses yet where people live in Counties that don't exist anymore e.g. Middlesex or aren't actually in the county the address claims to be in.

She also said none of the other houses have numbers. It's an otherwise normal road other than none of the houses having numbers, not that the rest of the houses have numbers and she doesn't.

So not really pretentious and not a lot she can do about it other than randomly assign herself as number 1 and hope the rest of the road and Royal Mail cop on

Yep have had some Facebook marketplace “deals” turn sour as no one can understand name and no number and I “didn’t give them an address”. The entire street is names, but there’s a list on the outside of the road with the order (well lit but frequently missed!)

That's odd. I only have a house name too (like all the other houses on the street). It is a pain, but no-one has ever been rude about it!

I do however always give very detailed instructions on how to find it, including the "what three words" reference these days. I do think you need to add extra information to the house name as the road or postcode often covers a lot of houses and distance.

It's not really pretentious. If the house doesn't have a number, it doesn't.
You can't just make one up or decide your own numbering system.

And I haven't got to the end of addresses yet where people live in Counties that don't exist anymore e.g. Middlesex or aren't actually in the county the address claims to be in.

Nobody's address contains a county. This is the hill I will die on. The current existence of the county in which the address physically exists is neither here nor there.

How do you enter the address into Google maps or a gps? What does a person type in order to get the correct directions to appear?

normally it would be
123 Main Street

so is it
The Green House Main Street

It actually isn't.

In boroughs in outer London there are plenty of houses which only have names and no numbers.

Myself and a friend over the years have done projects for different industry sectors which involves addresses. Apart from postcodes there is no standard in UK addresses.

ABXX 1XX.

Apart from telling you the wrong side of the road sat navs bring you to pretty much outside my house using the postcode. Name and street don't come in to it.

You enter the postcode first and then narrow it down to an address from that.

Though you could enter coordinates.

Tell that to retailers who sell online.

I had fun pointing out to one that their grouping of their physical stores by locations were nonsense.

How is it pretentious as fuck?

It's what the house is called, how the council identify it, the Post Office too. The name, and the naming conventions of the area aren't OPs decision.

Don't be so daft!

What do you mean? I buy things online all the time. Not using the county has never caused an issue.

Nope no need to be lobbying or changing entire streets!!

It’s simple. Have the house name prominently displayed on the gate or house, that’s it. Just do that.
Not a wee teeny tiny cute little flower surrounded tiny name plate. Big bold easy to see day or night signage.

It could be the difference of life or death for a paramedic crew to find you & not waste precious time driving up and down.

I live on a lane where the houses at either end are numbered, the same numbers which leads to some confusion even though it's two different villages, but the houses in-between are only named. I am often stopped by delivery men asking where x house is. It must be a nightmare. I think all houses should be numbered.

All of this.

I have a name and a number BUT the number refers to the entire block so when people chop the name off, I will never get the post/letter/visitor.

Staring hard at DVLA who I had to have several conversations with in order to insist they put the house name on my driving license.

The car licensing though is to the block which is a complete pain 🙄

It mucks up our credit reports too obviously as we share the number with several businesses and other people.

i live in a hamlet of 12 houses. We all have house names, no numbers. In fact we don’t even have a road name!
Housename, hamlet name, postal town, post code

I just tried to find a friend's house using Google maps. Her address is "Keeper's Cottage, Villagename", so I put this in.

I got a pin for a Keeper's Cottage in a completely different village, approx 15 miles from where she lives (a nearby village also has a "Keeper's Cottage", but it didn't show that one). I tried it without the apostrophe, but got the same result. When I used her postcode, it gave me the Big House, where the owner of her cottage lives. It's a mile away from her house on foot, and 2.5 miles by road.

Good luck to anyone using Google maps to find anywhere rural with no number or street name.