House names you might have chosen, and their meanings.

We live in rural Wales, our last four houses have been Ty something so very confusing when we’re talking about a past time. Ty means house, our current house is ‘Ty name House’ so House name House, silly I know but that’s how it’s registered officially. Changing it would affect too many day to day things to bother.
For those of you using house names or even past house names as passwords, do be careful, easy for those up to no good to get that information.

No house name for us but here is a road nearby that I would love to live on just so I could say my address is Clattering Ford!

Seen in Spain....while I was house and pet sitting in a very upmarket urbanisation: Costa Packet

A Victorian house in our road is called 'At Last'. That seems to breathe a sigh of relief to me; I wonder why it was called that? Maybe years of saving - or a hideous, complex session of conveyancing with many doubts about reaching completion.

There's a house near me called The Paw House-always makes me smile!

I moved into a little semi cottage called White House - which it wasn't. I changed it to Border Cottage as it is literally on the English/Welsh border.

I did once see a house called "Llareggub" - I wondered if the owners were Dylan Thomas fans or if that's what they were left with after the mortgage. (You have to spell it backwards.)

I wanted to call this house “ tigh na seachd“ ,all moody and Gaelic, because I thought it means ‘next to seven”. But the first bits wrong , apparently.
I live in a terrace, no 9 it’s between 7 and 11.

I used to pass a house called ENOLA and thought it was something cryptic and couldn't imagine what........
mentioned it to my boss one day and she just said... Oh it's ALONE .....

so there you go...

our house is quite mundane... BARN COTTAGE ...

We have been trying to think of a name for our house, a stone cottage at the end of a row of similar cottages. Nearly every house in our village has a name, so most of the popular ones have already been claimed. I like house names, many of them are amusing or puzzling, I don't think they're pretentious. However, my grandmother grew up in a very small terraced cottage in Wales called 'Ty Mackworth', she loved telling people it meant Mackworth House giving the impression it was much grander than it was! Ideas above her station perhaps, as she would say.

Happy so many nice names to choose from and yet I once read that three most popular names are
The Bungalow
The White House
Rose Cottage

I don't like the fashion of naming houses which actually have street numbers. I have, for most of my adult life, lived in named houses because they're in the middle of nowhere. (Avid countrywoman, couldn't live in a big town or city)
Since my divorce I have had to downsize but still live in a tiny village which doesn't have numbers on any of the houses.
I do feel though that my particular house is a bit pretentious as it is called "---------House" which is overly grand for what it is, a humble, old, three bed, end of terrace cottage type property.
However, Kim19 has given me a wonderful idea for deterring cold callers, "the lady of the house speaking!"

So glad to be of service NGG! Certainly worked for me.

We live in a regional area on the Fleurieu Peninsula and we often go past a home which has on their farm gate a sign which says "Thistle Do". Says it all really.

Owrz was the name over the lintel at our first house, the second was The Limes and the last, Silverwood. The latter two were obviously in recognition of the trees planted by previous owners.

annidomini I used to live in that area and in some area houses had been built at different times so there was no numbering sequence started. Our house was called The Trundle because we had just trundled along with the building of it. We got planning permission one year., building regulations the next year and the 3rd year the old building were knocked down. Years 4 and 5 were taken up with building the house and finally moving into it.

Look out! My son would say using your house name as a password would be very easy to hack for anyone who was that way inclined.

Happysexgarian...........Happy to offer my penny`s worth!!

"The Cottage"
"Greystones"
The Nook

Whilst ones I particularly like... if the name is appropriate would be ...Primrose Cottage,Magnolia Cottage,Fir tree Cottage,Wisteria Cottage.................I am sure you are now catching my drift!!!!

How about Green Whale Tump? Its a real name. A nearby feild was called Whale Green and à tump is a rocky out crop. Bet there isn't another one around.

We live in a block of flats called the Chestnuts. No chestnut trees in the communal garden, but plenty in the road round the corner.
Comunial can’t spell it.

When we moved in here we never gave naming the house a thought, as we are quite happy with the street-name and number.

I grew up in a house that had a name in a street where technically the houses must have had numbers, but no-one was certain what they were!

I thought it was only ships that should not be re-named?

When we renamed the house we just let the PO know and that was that.

My house shares a name with one that is exceedingly posh and very well known, so when I have to give my address I sometimes add the rider that it's not as posh as its namesake. It was named by the first owner (for whom the house was built) who moved to Devon from London and obviously had delusions of grandeur.

Not Buckingham Palace GA ? ?

My thoughts too Marmight ............and much as your name suggests .......you either love it or hate it!!