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House name ideas please.

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Dottymum81 · 28/05/2014 21:23

Hello - I have purchased a cottage which I would like to rename and would love some suggestions please. It is next to a wood and has a few fruit trees, one thought I had was Sugar Plum Cottage as it seems a good name for a young families home but my husband isn't particularly enthused. Thanks for your time

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lessonsintightropes · 28/05/2014 21:25

Sounds a bit cutesy-poo to me, sorry. How about Orchard Cottage? Or Glade Cottage? Are other cottages in the vicinity named too, and do you know the process for getting it changed with Royal Mail/various service providers - it's quite a faff and can be lengthy and things can go astray. What's it called at the moment?

StillNoFuckingEyeDeer · 28/05/2014 21:29

Orchard Cottage is a good name.
Glade Cottage reminds me of air freshener.
Appletree?
Pear Tree?

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Dottymum81 · 28/05/2014 21:32

It's called Pear Tree Cottage which is fine but I wanted to put our own stamp on it and Pear Tree is quite common I think. I don't know the process of getting it changed but sounds like something I should investigate before sending out new address cards...

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HaveToWearHeels · 28/05/2014 21:40

I think Pear Tree is lovely, I would stick with it. It's a long winded process, friends changed the name of their row of cottages and it was a total PITA

ChippyMinton · 28/05/2014 21:44

Pear Tree Cottage is lovely. Why not keep it?

justmuddlingalong · 28/05/2014 21:49

Bramble Bank Cottage, Pippin Cottage, Pearmain Cottage, Lambourne Cottage. The last 3 are varieties of UK apples

Bowlersarm · 28/05/2014 21:50

Pear Tree Cottage was going to be one of my suggestions, so I'd stick to that. It's nice.

BikeRunSki · 28/05/2014 21:50

Changing house name/number is a PITA. Leave it be! Even if you do it, it'll take a few years for the address change to show up on everybody's database.

I've had to do it because our newish house was never registered with Royal Mail and the council though it was a different address to what the estate agent told us and we told everybody else.

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Dottymum81 · 28/05/2014 21:52

I am beginning to waiver on the idea, thanks for your replies.

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Beaverfeaver2 · 28/05/2014 21:55

Christmas cottage?

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Dottymum81 · 28/05/2014 21:55

nice suggestions justmuddlingalong I particularly like Pippin Cottage.

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justmuddlingalong · 28/05/2014 21:57

Why thank you Dotty! Pippin's my favourite too.

GlaikitFizzog · 28/05/2014 22:04

Nothing wrong with pear tree. Do you have a number as well as a name? If your house is only know by the name changing it could be a nightmare.

My friend used to live in a row of cottages all named after fruit trees. Pear, apple, plum, cherry etc. changing it to Sugar plum might just confuse things even more.

lazydog · 28/05/2014 22:14

Pear Tree Cottage sounds nice.

Sugar Plum Cottage is completely vomit inducing, sorry Grin

Pippin Cottage isn't bad, but I still think the original name is better. Pippin just makes me think of Auntie Mabel's dog, not the apple variety...

burnishedsilver · 28/05/2014 23:31

I once saw a rather remote house called Mymidlifrcrisis?. Pear Tree Cottage sounds fine.

RCheshire · 29/05/2014 00:41

Best of the above names is Pear Tree for me.

RCheshire · 29/05/2014 00:45

I also think (& this of course is only my personal subjective view) that unless the current name is a recent addition, it is part of its history. I've had to do a lot of digging recently into the history of a house and if its name had changed with each owner it would have been impossible!

MrsJohnDeere · 29/05/2014 07:22

Pear Tree Cottage is ok.

Sugar Plum Cottage is too twee.

helensburgh · 29/05/2014 07:27

We changed ours but not officially. So the only thing it shows on is council tax letter and electoral voting things, otherwise all post has our new name.

But saying that pear tree cottage is lovely

MorvahRising · 29/05/2014 07:31

When we moved to our current house it had a very dull name. I went to the local museum and looked up a map of medieval field boundaries, and we named it after the field which had originally been where it stands now. Luckily it was a lovely name, and not Deadwood Bottom or something of that ilk.

I like Pear tree Cottage too. I think if you called it Sugar Plum Cottage you'd get a lot of jokes about fairies . . . .

LetsFaceTheMusicAndDance · 29/05/2014 07:34

I'd keep the original name. There are plenty of other ways of making it yours.

Notso · 29/05/2014 07:43

When I was little I longed to live somewhere with a name like Sugar Plum Cottage.
Now I am older I can't help but think Sugar Plums sound like a horrible slang name for testicles, my brain would hear Bollock Cottage.

I think Pear Tree is lovely.

Girlsbrigadewashorrible · 29/05/2014 08:31

Pear Tree Cottage is a perfect name. I wouldn't change it.

AliceDoesntLiveHereAnymore · 29/05/2014 08:50

Bollock Cottage. Grin I'll never look at "Sugar Plums" the same way again!

Yes, I agree, Pear Tree Cottage is lovely. If you're looking to make a stamp on it, why not come up with a nice new "design" around the name and have a new cottage sign put up with the designed name on it? You could even have stationery printed up with the name/design on it if you'd like.

MaliceInWonderland78 · 29/05/2014 09:54

I'd keep it as is. Pear Tree Cottage sounds o.k. to me.

We (fairly) recently had to change the name of our property from "The Vicarage" to "The Old Parsonage" (there was already an "Old Vicarage" in the village).

We were required to change the name by the Church - as a condition of the sale - but we've had no end of trouble with insurance, deliveries and just recently) a speeding fine! It's honestly not worth the hassle. It'd have been easier for me to become ordained and keep the name!