Renaming a terrible house name

[ChristmasCrumpet]

Just a bit of a silly one as it may come to nothing, but we've seen a house we like....that's currently aesthetically awful but tonnes of potential.

It's large, detached 3000sqft. Stands in an acre. 16th C but been extended and extended. The outside is covered in mock Tudor beams, painted chocolate brown with a yellow background. We'd take off all the mock diamond lead stuck on the windows, and paint it nicely! It's a big imposing lump, and I like that.

The owners have named it (very similar to) Lance Lodge. It's not a lodge. And Lance is bloody awful.

We'd rename it 'Something' House.

What would you replace 'Something' with? What sounds like a nice, strong, impressive, clean, welcoming name?

I don't like the usual suspects...Crown House. White House. (Although we'd probably paint it mainly white TBF.) Oak House. All are a bit uninspired, one in every village.

I quite like Alexander House, but DH thinks it's just odd to pick a random name, I just think it flows.

Looking for hive mind inspiration!

(I've been looking on Rightmove at house names, there's genuinely one for sale called Chez Wedrewolf. Yes really. And no, I don't like Wedrewolf House )

Choose a nice plant or tree name and bung the relative plants in your garden

azalea house

hazel house

Dahlia house

Acacia house

Aspen house

Starling house

skylark house

My parents bought their house in 1979. It was called "Dunroamin" and they changed it to the month the moved in ( Like "August House")

Foxfield House?

Our house is called Sunny House and we have kept it.

It's very rural so thankfully it doesn't get mistaken for a Chinese Takeaway!

Above the front door there is a stained glass half sun and the house is very sunny!

If it's in farmland how about

Farmstead house
Acre cottage
Harvest house/cottage/lodge
Grange house (grange means farm)

I do... but Fairfax just makes me go "and Favour"

I can't find much via Google, other than the graves are potentially Roman (Roman House an option, I'm not mad on that) and the old part of the house was originally something to do with the Christian church, mainly a Scottish branch....which is little help because the house is in England.

I'd look through the history for previous names.

If its a rural house where the name is the postal address (as opposed to being a bolt-on to a numbered address) then you need to make the change with the LA and postal service who have some restrictions.
A name used for the same house previously is unlikely to break any local rules about house names and carries a precedent.

Local wildlife can be an inspiration. Buzzards Roost?

I mean you could go with Foxworth House. As long as you've not read Flowers in the Attic....

There you go then, Scotland House.

Ask at the local village pub or shop. Someone will know whether it used to have a different name in years gone by. Chances are it has, especially if there's been a house on that site for so long. It would be nice to change it back again.

Definitely like Foxworth and Foxfield. Also Grange House.

Foxcroft House

Surely you need to channel some Kenergy and call it the Mojo Dojo Casa House? 😄

Foxtail House?

Our house had a shit, twee name that had no link whatsoever to the actual house. I find house names very pretentious. We changed it back to the number. I’ve worked in the emergency services a long time and house names are an absolute nightmare. Get a number so an ambulance can quickly find your house.

My house has “something” dene house and I think that sounds good.

Similar would be Rosedene, Thistledene, Ashdene,

What can be seen is a tonne of fields, and a metal fabrication unit.

Greenfield House

Laburnum House.... Plant some if it's not already there 😂

This! This is the answer.

Fox Hill House
Fox Fields House
Fox Ville
Foxton House
Fox Cottage

Scots House
Edinburgh House
Golden Mile Estate
Rolling Fields House
Green Fields House
Hillview House
Green View House
Greenacres House

I think you should look in to the history of the house, and see how it came by its current name (was it a hunting lodge - they can be huge) and if it has ever been called anything else.

And do check whether it's listed (and if so what grade) before assuming you can change any of it. Even changing the colour of later additions you think are gopping can be problematic

How about something connected to its age, such as Tudor House, Wolsey House or similar?

Foxacre or Fox Acre House

Foxby House
Foxon House

But i agree that i'd look into whatever history i could find relating to the house or area.
favourite holiday destination? within reason - don't think 'St Lucia house' works well, but "Winchester House' or 'Georgia House' (for example) could?

(wish i had a house of my own to name - would go with my mother's maiden name i think)

Foxglove House.