Please help me name this house!

[Tigerlilly342]

Looking for suggestions to rename our house. Current name is causing a lot of confusing hence the change.

characteristics of the house;

• built in the 1800s
• very traditional exterior
• Set in the countryside
• house surrounded by gardens full of flowers and trees
• gardens include an orchard and small lake

any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Second this 😃

Why did you try to call an obvious house Oak Cottage and not Oak House?

Orchard House or Lake House.

The Acorns

Eucalyptus House

What flowers, trees, birds, wildlife do you have there? What was the land originally? What was its original use?

That took me right back!

What about not using the oak/orchard/flower theme and using a family surname eg your maiden name or grandmother's maiden name. Or a favourite place?
My parents live on a street with no numbers, all names, which vary enormously, my parents' 150 year old house is named after a rather dull town about 200 miles away, assume the original owner felt strongly about that place, even though the census shows they didn't come from there.

Do you know what varieties the apples are?

Pippins. Russet House.
There's an apple variety called Greensleeves which I think would be a fabulous name for a lovely old house and to be honest who would care or notice that you were not growing the apple? Greensleeves has all sorts of other connotations.

Or "the elms" or "the oaks"

Apple tree house? Apple tree cottage? The lake house?

www.sign-maker.net/house-signs/house-names.htm

This site has a lot of examples

I think I’d try and find the original deeds and use one of the names of either the builders or original residents e.g. Burton House or something. Or look at some old maps of the area and see if there’s a feature named near it or farm/ house etc that has since been demolished whose name you could borrow?

We refer to a friend's house as "Theirname Towers"

The Lake House
Broadoaks
Orchard Cottage
The Lawns
Tall Trees

Any other features E.g

Two chimneys
Redroofs
The Gables
End House

Balonz

Was wondering if you'd had anyone tell you how pretentious you are for having a name not a number, that's how these threads usually go on MN. And, yep, you have, sort of. Weird.

Here are some of ChatGPTs suggestions

Lakefield House
Bloomwood
Willowmere
Hawthorn Grange
Elderbrook House
Meadowcroft
Lilac Hollow
Ashbourne House

What about using your name? Like Smith House

Or ‘Notso Stealthius Boastus’ 😀

Apple Crumble House

Rural stand-alone houses virtually never have numbers, though. (Though I used to live nearish a trio of houses in the middle of nowhere, all carved out of the same old stable, and they were, predictably, called The Stables 1, 2 and 3.)

OP, what is causing confusion about the current name of the house?

I ask because, in my experience, even if you’re getting someone else’s post, changing an established house name only worsens the confusion.

I would love to change our house’s name, which I find mildly annoying (it was the maiden name of the English mother of the family who bought it in 1909 — we’re not in the UK), but even though it technically has a road number, no other houses on a road almost a mile long, use the road number (for mass confusion, all houses have either a name and/or a terrace number, so ‘3, Rose Terrace, X Road’), experience tells me it would mean we never got a delivery again.

🤣🤣

Toad Hall

There's a length of the South Circular where all the turn of the last century homes have names in an original stone insert, and one always amuses me. Westralia, which would go with the eucalyptus.

Gravity House 'cos of Isaac Newton and the apple (you said there was an orchard...)

A pp made a good point about a name change most likely causing more confusion with deliveries etc, not less.
Since your house shares a name with a business in town, could you just tack another word on to the name, eg if the business was called Osprey you could call yours Osprey House?
Are you in the same postcode, btw? If the postcodes are different, there really shouldn't be any confusion, unless the postie is certain that Osprey means the business in town and ignores the postcode. But if your postie is of such fixed opinions, there's a danger that they won't ever deliver any post to your new address!