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Renaming a terrible house name

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ChristmasCrumpet · 19/08/2023 21:35

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 Grin)

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Aparecium · 20/08/2023 10:41

How about the WhatThreeWords for your house, or the turning into your driveway, or for any part of the property?

SarahAndQuack · 20/08/2023 10:48

SchoolBlazers · 20/08/2023 10:29

Yes @SarahAndQuack my aunt used to live in the far north west of Scotland in a small community where the houses were numbered according to the order in which they were built. Totally random.

To the best of my understanding, houses in my village were given numbers in at least three separate programmes of numbering. At one point there were duplicate numbers, because people couldn't decide whether the main street (which isn't named) was one street that went round a corner, or two streets. My house used to be two houses (it's been knocked through into one) and when I took up the carpets I found an old envelope addressed to a previous owner with the direction 'Numbers 9 and 10' (not the real numbers). Clearly at that point both halves of the house retained their numbers despite the fact it'd been knocked through into one.

MrsAvocet · 20/08/2023 10:51

Not read the whole thread so may already have been suggested, but with the graveyard connection how about Kirkfield House?

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ChristmasCrumpet · 20/08/2023 11:00

KnickerlessParsons · 20/08/2023 09:49

Does it have to be "Something House"? Could it be "The Laurels" or "Dunroamin" or something? Using "House" makes it seem very grand: hospice/flats/council offices/office block.

House isn't grand.

Calling it specifically "Crumpeton House" if it's in the village of Crumpeton is grand. Because generally that's what the largest manor house/hall in a village was called.

I have no idea what the largest house there is. It's not a big village. It's a large house and quite possibly the biggest house in the very small area, but not a manor house or hall.

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ChristmasCrumpet · 20/08/2023 11:01

Lonicerax · 20/08/2023 11:00

Legerstow House
https://glosbe.com/en/ang/graveyard
Old English for graveyard

Oh, this is good.

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maximist · 20/08/2023 11:03

Field View?
Or Fieldview House?

YoDood · 20/08/2023 11:10

Reynard House (male fox)

D1nopawus · 20/08/2023 11:25

There is literally bugger all in the garden, for all those suggesting inspiration there...all lawn, bar one large tree (think it's oak) and actually some very old graves! Corpse house?

Oakfields?
Oakfield manor, lodge etc?
Green Oak Place? Green Oak

Personally, I'd go with your user name & call it Crumpets.

EducatingArti · 20/08/2023 12:01

I love Legerstow

Merapi · 20/08/2023 14:01

Greenacres
Windmill View
The Oaks
Casa Del Mumnsnet

EeesandWhizz · 21/08/2023 14:34

I'd get a sign made up saying 'City Girlz Party Mansion' just to scare the neighbours.

Are you North/South of the Village? Eastfield, West Lane, Southwood, North Bank etc? - just check out the surrounding farm names first.

Happierwithouthim · 22/08/2023 14:50

Lonicerax · 20/08/2023 11:00

Legerstow House
https://glosbe.com/en/ang/graveyard
Old English for graveyard

I'm in Ireland, I named my house a word in Irish, could you do this or another language? Some houses here use a word spelled backwards so there's a surname O'Connor and I've seen houses called Ronnoco house.

Zonder · 22/08/2023 14:59

Someone must have suggested Mojo Dojo Casa already?

SirVixofVixHall · 22/08/2023 15:03

YourNameGoesHere · 19/08/2023 21:48

Look in the deeds I suspect it's probably had many names over the years and use one of them. Failing that is there a family in its history it has a long association with you could name it after them.

I agree with this. Look it up on the census , you can do this on ancestry (pm me if you want me to look it up for you) to find the names of old residents , or check old maps for the older name.

PragmaticWench · 22/08/2023 19:27

Foxgrange.

CastleTower · 22/08/2023 19:34

Who were the Romans fighting round your way? Iceni House or Pict House or Brigantes House (etc) would be pretty cool.

OriginalBin · 22/08/2023 19:41

Happierwithouthim · 22/08/2023 14:50

I'm in Ireland, I named my house a word in Irish, could you do this or another language? Some houses here use a word spelled backwards so there's a surname O'Connor and I've seen houses called Ronnoco house.

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Dear God, where are these houses???

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ChristmasCrumpet · 22/08/2023 21:07

Happierwithouthim · 22/08/2023 14:50

I'm in Ireland, I named my house a word in Irish, could you do this or another language? Some houses here use a word spelled backwards so there's a surname O'Connor and I've seen houses called Ronnoco house.

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This could work, our surname is Tihs.

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D1nopawus · 22/08/2023 22:18
Grin
NJMAd · 22/08/2023 22:26

Button House

Failing that.

Classic House
Excalibur Cottage
The Cinnamons

Our House

SirVixofVixHall · 23/08/2023 00:38

I am distracted by the graves. Do they have stones ? Or are they only marked on the map ?
So the original house was a church house of some sort ?

Delphigirl · 23/08/2023 00:43

ChristmasCrumpet · 19/08/2023 22:11

Oooh, I like Fox House.

I want to make the Fox longer though, more syllables, sort of Foxford (not actually that though it's crap)...

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Foxcombe House

AcrossthePond55 · 23/08/2023 02:09

Named houses aren't 'usual' where I live (US) but there is one place up in the foothills set back off the road with a sign that says 'Fairvale'. I've always thought that was such a peaceful name. How about 'Fairvale House'.

Netaporter · 23/08/2023 03:20

I genuinely thought it was bad luck to rename a house? I say this as someone who lived previously in a house with a depressing name….a house near me has a very unfortunate name associated with intercourse which of course makes everyone giggle. That is bad luck itself I guess 😂

Could you translate it to Latin and maybe call it Lancea house? Would it not have been previously named Lance House if the sword smith lived there or the weapons were kept in it?

re: numbering house, I live on a very old road with no numbers only names. If it’s a through road, I’d have thought it’d be tricky to establish which end was number 1 though?