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!

If the OP lives in the countryside, surely no one would assume they have a house number

My mother had to rename her house too. She named it after the previous owner who lived there for about 40 years, think "Jenny's Cottage" type name.

""Spinney thicket" "myrtle manor"or maison myrtle (iis= eucalyptus)

We just renamed our house as we did some major renovations and it definitely wasn’t a cottage any more. Calling it <name> House sounded knobby so we just dropped the “cottage” and it’s a single word. We found out the house had actually had three different names beforehand and used one of those.

In our rural village lots of houses just have one word names, or they have “Little” before them e.g. Little Oak, Little Tern etc.

Cedar Haven or similar, oak house?
The Hedgehog, even if you don't have a reason but it'd be memorable.

I love house names, and have found some more unusual ones over the years. Some of my favourites were

Tantrums
Alimoney
The Shitts (probably not the official name but it made me laugh)
Jamesica Lodge
Licorice House (White House with black external beams).
Brick House
Foulness House

Reading Winnie the Pooh has never been the same since I that episode of Outlander when Jamie calls her vagine that

Reading others posts about how hard it is to find/describe a house with a name instead of a number, what colour is your front door or do you have a gate you could paint?
Fushia House
Duck Egg Cottage
Cobalt Lodge

Our parish council produced a plan of the villages giving every house a number.
You could then use the key to look up which house was where either by looking up the name, finding its given number and then locating it on the map or finding the house you wanted on the map and using the number to find its name in the key.
A large laminated version was put up on the village notice board and in the pub. We have had very little problem with deliveries since.
An A4 version was given to each house too.
Just a thought.

I grew up in the country on a rural road where most of the houses had names. My favourite was Bessie. Next door was number 7, and it was indeed the seventh house. Eight houses later, numbering started again at 97, through to 101. Then all the houses had names, and the last one before the river was 104. It must have driven a new postman mad. Most of them had very “country” names like The Thatched Cottage, Yew Tree Cottage, The Shrubbery, The Orchards, West Cottage. Then it started to get gentrified, new people moved in and extended the houses got renamed: Orchard House, Yew Tree House etc.

@PineappleCoconut not quite the twee, Winnie the Pooh vibes I was going for

Can't you just revert to the actual number of the property?

I always think it's a bit naff to have a property name unless its historic, if it's causing confusion, I'd just get rid of the name.

also get to know your postmen - then they'll know what's to go where!

if you are desperate, I'd look for property features like Pine if pine trees, hill if on a hill, gate if has a gate and so on. Then combine

Like Apple Gate or Pine Hill.

Choose your favourite and translate it into Welsh. Unless you live in Wales no one will have the same near you.
Ty Llyn — Lake House
Ty Celyn Holly House

There's a large house I drive past, 18th C listed, large grounds, immaculately upkept and it's called Paradise House. Looks amazing from the outside and I have once been lucky enough to stand on the doorstep and peep in (delivering something to the then owners), and the inside did not disappoint either.

• house surrounded by gardens full of flowers and trees
• gardens include an orchard and small lake

certainly seems to me you have your own bit of Paradise there!

Treetops?
The meadows?
The Elms?
Woodbury?
Woodlands?

We have a Wit's End and a Windy Bottom in our village.

Redgates House. Then paint your gates red and you'll parcels will never go missing again.

Or Green Gables then chnage your name to Ann.

Withane

Our house doesn’t have a name, but we joke that if it needed one, we’d call it Chimney Down. When we moved in we had three chimneys, then we built a loft conversion so we’re down to two chimneys….

Is there something the local area is known for rather than something specific to your own plot? (History) It doesn’t have to have the word cottage in in it…eg houses I recall have names like “The…” or “…Grove” or use a flower name you love that’s in your garden eg Primrose or Wisteria. Or a plural of a common item eg The Elms.
best thing to do is search other areas, use online listings or drive round looking at names or even better go for a walk in a nice place

This separates the country folk from the town folk. Even if my village does have 3000+ houses - many new - most will be named, not numbered. Its why rural postie rounds take forever, need long standing workers, and we only get 2 posts per week. I do live in the south-east by the way.

Orchardbank
Lakeside house

Orchard View
Tree View
Meadow Place
Elm Cottage

Lakeside House
Orchard view house
Oak Apple house