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 )

It's not so much bad luck (though I've heard of that before)

It's that it's really naff (in the Valerie Jones sort of way) even - or perhaps especially - if the name is embarrassingly rude.

I think choosing an older name for the house is better than coming up with a new one for a historic property.

And moving in to something that may well be listed (and which means you may have to keep even later accretions and colours that you find ugly) is definitely not for the fainthearted!

I'm not superstitious.

Naturally, I'll be choosing the naffest thing I can think of. I'm aiming to tick all three boxes of being naff, "embarrassingly rude", and eye wateringly offensive.

There's no reason I shouldn't pick a name. That's what every other owner has done whether 100, 500, or 50yrs ago.

It's not listed. I have said this upthread.

Thanks for all your help there.

Z

Field View

Housey McHouseFace

Apologies if suggested already.

Look at old maps to find previous names of the house or to help research previous landowner. What was the occupation of early owners? Who was the builder? What crops were grown ? It is nice to associate the house to its history. I'm not always convinced by the word House in the title .

Roman word for house is Domis

So I'd go for
( your surname) Domis

Or Roman Domus

Really not simple even if you do it properly lot of companies used postal databases that aren’t updated frequently
can cause all sorts of problems from credit vetting and deliveries

This is worse than the babyname threads.

Vixen Villa

Lots of Carsicks where I am. I had a chortle but comes from Carr (wet woodland) and Syke (stream or valley)

I don't disagree.

There have been some awful suggestions on this thread...imho.

But I've gained a few great ones, that I would never have come up with myself :)

All in the eye of the beholder, isn't it.

I've just received my new house sign in black granite with silver Gaelic writing describing a townland name. Cannot wait for the neighbours to try to pronounce it!

When my husband and I drive through twee villages with houses called things like "The Old Vicarage", "The Old Rectory", "The Old Granary" etc, we always vow to buy a pile and call it "The Old Fuckoff"....

I'm not following this logic?...

Plant some fruit trees and call it Orchard House.

Juvenile reform
Just to wind the neighbours up

A friend tried this (well, not fruit trees, but planting a group of a particular type of tree on the lawn, and renaming the house ‘Tree variety House’ — it had had one of those godawful names where the builder combined his children’s names, eg ‘SuRon Villa’). Every single tree died.

How about Cadno House - it's Welsh for fox !

Imagine choosing to live somewhere that makes almost everyone who sees your address think of vomit.

How about " Pointy-nosed gingery thing House"

Trips off the tongue beautiful like

Bear lodge (it sounds like something from the Goldilocks children story)

Something to reflect the Zeitgeist- ‘My pronouns are house/home/pad’? Might be a bit long for a name plate though.

How about Cadno House - it's Welsh for fox !

Or Tŷ Cadno

Our house used to be called West House, because Mr & Mrs West lived there!