Has your house got a name

Our off road house has a name but we've recently found that using the What3Words app in our address is a good way for delivery people to find us or, rather, they've no excuse not to.

What I love about our wee peninsula though is that along the coast road, where houses only have names, people use the nearest lamp-post number to help with non-Royal Mail deliveries. Royal Mail have had us sussed for yonks.

We just have a number but most houses in our village are name-only. Such fun for delivery drivers, especially on dark winter days. They end up chapping on our door asking whether we know XYZ house. Mostly we don’t because we’re a spread out area, not compact.

My DD’s house has only a name, there are no numbers in her village. When they moved in they thought about changing the name but it costs quite a lot of money to do it officially so the post office will deliver. It might have been £300. They didn’t bother.

I did sit in a queue at traffic lights recently wondering why the house next to the road was called Rainbow End. It was by a busy three way junction in town and opposite a police station.

Rainbow End probably cost several pots of gold.

It wasn’t a fancy property, a 2-bed retirement bungalow kind of thing. I also pondered on it being Rainbow End and not Rainbow’s End. The traffic lights I was waiting at were exceedingly slow in changing to green, as you’ve probably guessed.

Just a name. No numbers out in the countryside.

According to our deeds out house originally had a name, before the street was numbered back in the Edwardian era. One dau I'll get a sign made

When we had our first house many years ago we called it Myome!!

Scones

Our house has a name which it was given by the previous owners, a family who lived here for over 50 years. I love the name and the connection with the people who went before us.

The name sign was obviously made by one of the family. When we moved it it was in a bad state so we refurbished it and now it has pride of place.

A neighbour is a retired policeman and has called his house Duncoppering.

I'd love to think that the new owners of my parents house did the same with my dad's hand made sign. The house was called Rivington, a place close to where they lived and first met.

We moved to this house three years ago and it already had a name which is, strangely, the first bit of my first name and the surname of my first boyfriend. Ideal if I had married him.

Our house and the one next door were built on the plot of where a single house once stood and so each house was given a name but no number, the builder didn't want to make one of the houses the " A" number. So our house has a name as does the one next door and we always advise that we are "down a driveway between No. 37 and No. 41" and that when they are looking us up for the satnav we are at the bottom of the list for our road!

We live in Sweden and have an “escape” house in the UK we have a name for it “ huset” which literally means the house as we always talk about going to the house it’s very appropriate and is a good talking point. In Sweden nobody has house names!

Going back a long time, I remember houses being called COBWEBS. It stood for Currently Owned By Woolwich Equitable Building Society.

We always change the titles for our DS and partners! E.g. "Lord and Lady" /Sir and Lady/Tarzan and Jane/ John and Yoko/ Morticia and Gomez etc. Likewise with house names , as long as the official number is written correctly you can call homes what you wish! Little house on the prairie? Transylvania Towers? There's a large lone home near us named 'The Grindstone' favourite for our home is The Ponderosa!

Not now but when I lived with my parents our house had been called 'Ridsdale' by the previous owner.
Apparently, he called it that when he moved out of the dales & into a town!

My boyfriend (now husband) was going home to his parents house so I asked for their address to write to him (remember that?) and he gave me a house name, town and postcode. I was very puzzled as although I could conceive of a house having no number I just couldn’t get my head around it not having a road name when I knew it was in a town.

I was living in Manchester then and the first time I visited his parent’s home was several months after our wedding. As we approached the beautiful Devonshire Georgian Manor House that was his parents home the penny finally dropped and I realised I’d married into ‘posh’. ??

As a District Nurse I quickly discovered that Apple Tree Cottage is the commonest house name near here, 7 in one village and 6 of them in the next village ?
I dreaded seeking out patients in some places simply because there weren’t numbers just ill-defined nameplates for many of them.

And you couldn’t ask at the village post office because then everyone would know that Mrs X had the DN visiting!

My MIL lived next door to her great grandparents when the old boy died they discovered he had been born and raised in Illsington in Devon...dont know why they were surprised as thats what the house was and is still called.She loved her "wee Grandpa " and spent a lot of time with him ,odd she didn't know where he came from .

Our house name is, we think, delightful. It was already named by the builder who put two houses on a plot which formerly belonged to just one big house and our neighbour's house has the name of the original house (gosh that sounds complicated but it isn't really). We don't have a number as there was reluctance to split the original number into "number" and "numberA".

There is a very big posh house down the road that is imaginatively named "Millstone" ...

Ours has... its written across the top of our cottage....we don't use it as part of our address

A friend's house was dubbed Dunpaintin.

I was amazed recently to see a house with the name of "Passing Wind".

L'Ancienne Cure - the old Vicarage

I grew up in a house called Thorngrove. The first house I bought was called Garth.
My present home doesn't have a name, but I quite fancy one.

There is an old school near me, converted into two semis. One is called "The Old School House", the other one is "11 Plus".