Naming our house.Please Vote x

[NewMummyx]

Hello everyone.

So we have just bought our dream home.. a cute ex Farmhouse in a village.

We would like to name it.
It's on a corner of a street.
We like :

The Corner Farmhouse

Or just

Corner Farmhouse

Which do you prefer ? Or any other ideas?
Thank you so much x

@Alexalee that's fine.
But just keep in mind saying nasty comments like that to people can hurt.
Having a house with a name is so exciting to us. But I wanted opinions from people other then friends & family as this is all very new to us.

You have no idea what people are going through in life so if you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all.

I've had difference of opinions on here but none to try & be personally nasty.

Colin, call the house Colin.

Thank you everyone so much.
This has really helped us.

Yes it has a number - 36
It was our solicitor who said it's called Brunswick Farmhouse but hasn't been know as this for years so we could change it if we wanted to.

I do like Brunswick but like I said, all I think of is the shopping centre in town 🙈

Old Bruns Corner?

Either Brunswick Farmhouse or 36

Ok, so if it has a number the name really doesn’t matter address wise as long as you didn’t drop the number. Dropping the number causes no end of problems not just with emergency services but you wont match with any supplier, delivery, utility addresses in PAF for months and possibly years even if you change it with Royal Mail.

With that in mind I like Corner House, 36 Twee Lane, Trumpton, TR1 1BA or whatever.

If there had been no number to the address I would also be saying dont change the Brunswick name, but with a number i think it doesn’t matter one bit.

Alexalee
The house had a name in the past and sounds like OP just wants to pay homage to that and is thrilled to have such a pretty house. It isn't pretentious to do that. I know you haven't called OP pretentious outright but you have implied it by your passive aggressive suggestion.

If you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all.

This.

Corner Farmhouse sounds wrong to me, it's too made up. Either it's Corner House, or it's Brunswick Farmhouse. Corner Farmhouse makes it sound like it's the old farmhouse from Corner Farm.

I can just about cope with you wanting to "put your own stamp on it" but not if it means a name that implies a sort of fictional history for the place.

I have a friend who took over running a village pub. The first thing he did was change the name back to the original, from the one the brewery had given it a few years before. Are you really sure you want to be the brewery in this, "putting its own stamp on it", rather than my mate re-instating the original? I know which I'd rather be.

I think you should keep the original name. It's part of the house's history. Owners of historic or old houses are just temporary guardians really, caring for it and keeping it going until the next guardian comes along to do the same. Our house has a name, and although we don't love the name, it belongs to the house, to the history of the centurys old property, and for that reason we wouldn't consider changing it. It's nice to look through old documents like census returns or land plans from the village a couple of hundred years ago, and see the house referred to by its name, and I'd like to think that that would happen for many years to come. It's about continuity I guess.

Old Brunswick Farmhouse. Whatever you call it don't just call it a farmhouse if it isn't connected to a farm now.

The Corner House was a pub back in my day!!
Brunny House?

@emwithme - dammit, you beat me!

NB the emergency services / post office generally have some input on naming to ensure it's distinctive enough - not sur how you clear it but "friends" had to deal with this when they renumbered from 13 to 12 1/2 (yes really)

I grew up in an old farmhouse with a name - all the houses in the hamlet have similar name (think Great Brunswick, Little Brunswick and Brunswick Cottage).

I think it would be a lovelier thing to keep the original name but give something new to the house that can be admired for generations to come. My parents house has stood for 400 years, and I love to think that something we do will stand another 400!

(I am also going to minorly restore the row name of my own terrace - we were going to cynically call it something like 'Curate's Cottage' because it does improve house price, because we live on a Vicarage Road. But with a bit of digging discovered that our terrace row was actually named after the old pub, and we're spitting distance from the new pub. So we're going to put up a sign with the row name - having agreed with neighbours - and not mess with the postal house listings.)

I like corner farm

The big one on the corner.

I like The Corner House or The Corner Farm as a close second. Farmhouse is just a bit too much of a mouthful, I think.

I have a house name that starts with ‘The’ and like it!

Not so keen on the Brunswick variants but I grew up near a very rough pub called The Brunswick Arms!

This is all such good help everyone thank you. We 100% love the history of the house. Just when it was Brunswick house it was much grander but now as most places unfortunately it has been built up around.

I wouldn't have even thought until our solicitor said. 🙈

"Given it's the old farmhouse but re-jigged to become a new modern home, why not just re-gig the name as an anagram and call it Winsbruck Farmhouse?"

I like this idea actually. Not the easiest set of letters to anagram but it's a nice way to nod to the history.

Isn't it meant to be bad luck to change a house name?

Even if it's not and admit it is a bit silly to think that I would leave it as it is-has so much history and seems a shame to re-name it

Don't you need permission from Local Council/Royal Mail to change a house name?

I think if you have a house number, any name is unofficial so you don't have to inform or clear it with anyone. OP needs to display the 36 on her house and post to her should always include the 36. As long as she does that, she can do what she likes with the lines above on her address - even if that's giving it the same name as another house at the other end of the road (which would be daft).

The postie and RM sorting office will only look at the 36, so will all delivery drivers, sat nav etc.

I love its original name. Why change it ? The house has history that is intrinsically linked with its name ! How old is it ? If earlier than 1911 you can look it up on the census and find out who lives there/what they did.

Changing the name is just a bit peculiar and won't endear you to your new neighbours who will still call it by its old name anyway...

I know this as a couple of townies did the name change thing in our village and eventually changed it back as got so fed up that 'Braeside' is in fact 'The Spinney' (which it had been for 230 years!

All a bit nouveau riche really and I'm sure that's not your intention.

Cornerstone
Cornerpin

All our neighbours refer to our house as "name house". With that in mind we do use Name House, 12 my street as an address. The name is also it's main feature so often helps people find it to deliver things anyway.

@AnemoneAnenome we had exactly that in our village. Two cottages approx 600 metres apart with the same name. One was old an old standing name, but the new owners of cottage no. 2 decide to rename their (equally old) place to 'put their stamp on it'. They were unfamiliar with the village, where virtually no houses are numbered, and chose quite a common new name, so now we have two called (say) Rose Cottage in close proximity. It causes a lot of confusion, especially when the original Rose Cottage went on the market. Both houses have the same address except for a slight difference in the postcode. This happened a time ago now, I don't know why it was allowed, it probably wouldn't be now.