Has your house got a name

Where I used to live houses werenumbered but some residents took to naming their house. Few doors down named their house Dunpayin once they had paid their mortgage off.

Th name of my house is the same as the first house built on the site in the eighteenth century.I did a lot of research to find out who were the first owners. Very interesting and was able to speak in person to a descendant.

When we moved into a cottage, many years ago with my five cats, I wanted to call it The Cathouse. My ex partner refused. He had NO sense of humour! Since then I've ditched him and moved, but my new house is numbered.

only problem with house names , no numbers, can be difficulty in finding places easily especially in darker days. I used to do hospital car service and you may be in an area where sat nav does not work, so it is good idea to have a light above name or number so that it is easy to see for any newcomers, also helpful to have a light on should you have called emergency service , or doctor etc as it is easy to pick out the light from a distance however dark the road

My Mum and I live in the same road and they both have names. My house was built in the grounds of a large house in t fifties and the owners of that house (who weren't when mine was built) still refer to our house being in their grounds!

My narrow boat home is called Circle of Peace

Ours was called ‘Lloret’ as the previous owners got married in lloret de mar. So romantic.

My grandparents called their house Ardlui as this was the furthest point they reached on their honeymoon. 100 years later the house (a very modest home) is still called that.

Before I was born my parents moved into a house no. 5 and my mother wanted to call it Chanel, but my father wouldn't let her.

DD 1 has a house name, used by previous owners, but she only uses the number. DD2 had a house name, no number, when she lived in Orkney and we have friends with house names but as has been said here they are all village houses.

Best name I know is "Isnorin" on a bungalow I used to drive past on my way to work. Said in a very Yorkshire accent it's "He's Not In" :-)

The Badgers - we are known as Nanny and Grandpa Badger .

Our house has a number, think it is a tad OTT to actually give it a name.
Now we are moving to Cornwall next year and our new house will need a "name " due to simply no numbers within the plot area and beyond !
Still thinking .............

I live in a bungalow which was built as an infill on the site of an old chapel so our number is 2B and as a bit of fun I called it Aughnott.

We lived in a house with a nice name, but we were then given numbers, which I was slightly peeved about at the time. What a nightmare for postpeople though, especially before post codes.

I passed a very grand house the other day called The Slum.

Our place doesn't have a name, but often threatened to call it "Arf Dun", because when my DH was alive, no job was ever finished completely!

I agree with Madeleine35. As a retired police officer who worked a country beat I would often waste valuable minutes getting to a 999 call because we couldn’t find the property in the pitch black. Many places were down tracks off country lanes with no lighting. Place names are OK as long as there is a clear sign. I always advised white signs with black writing so it’s easy to spot the sign and solar lighting is good. If calling the emergency services there is an app called ‘what3words’. What3words is an easy way to identify precise locations. Every 3m square has been given a unique combination of three words: a what3words address. Give the three words to the 999 control room or tradesmen trying to find your house if it is well hidden and it gets them right to your door. Free and easy to use. May be the difference between life and death! Worked well for us when we had to call an ambulance as our house is well hidden away behind shops and courtyards in a seaside town.

Our old holiday house was called The Abbey because it was built from bits of an old church. Sadly we had to knock it down and rebuild because it fell apart. Used to be fun picking mushrooms and chasing possums from inside the house.

My previous house was called Rivendell from Tolkien books

By law in Denmark all properties have a number, or rather two, the one is the street number and it must be displayed where it can be seen from the street, the other the official designation in the Land Registry. This is only used on offical documents, mainly when buying or selling property. A property can consist of more than one lot in the Land Registry so you have two or more Land Reigistry numbers.

So basically only large estates, houses built between about 1890 and 1920 and meant to show off the owners' wealth and perhaps some very old farms have names.

I don't think anyone would find it pretentious if you named a house, but they might well think it a little odd.

No, ours doesn't, although it's been called Mad House a few times. I think houses have to be 'born' with names, not just given them by people who come to live in them. The house I was born in was named for the architect who designed and built it. By chance it was the same as a character in the Robin Hood stories and I always loved it.

All the houses on my street just have names; no numbers at all. The postman knows where we all are but it’s hellish for courier delivery drivers!

A friend of mine called her house COBWEBS (Currently Owned By Woolich Equitable Building Society). If mine had that name it would be a description of its contents!

I loved my husband's Gran to pieces, but she was cast in the mould of Hyacinth Bucket and in some ways was a terrible snob. In a rather boastful way she once said to me, "Did you know my son (my very modest father-in-law) has never had to live in a house with a number?

FarNorth

I live in the countryside where all houses have names, no numbers except for an occasional little group of council houses.

Same here. The regular people are ok but everyone else curses it because of course unlike numbers you have no way of knowing whereabouts on the road a house with a name is - and it's a long road

I was quite excited to see the original deeds when I bought my bungalow, and originally it was called 'Lodore'. I thought it had romantic connotations until I researched it - it's from Lodore Street, in Poplar! Obviously wanted to make tribute to their cockney roots

Just a number, but years ago I lived in a lovely place where it was just names on houses. My bungalow was a called after a little village in Wales and we actually drove there one Sunday to find it.