[Closed] Naming a house?

dunroamin?

Housie McHouse face?

Or for added cheese factor - name of road plus cottage. Works better if your house is definitely not a cottage

Bob

Trumpy Towers

Louise

Haw

Uckem Hall

Theres only really a function for a name if you're not on a numbered street. Living in a named property myself your address is something you use more and more for payment and delivery - the novelty of a house name soon wears off when you keep having to spell it over the phone.

However - why not use the registration number from your car - naming the house is free but now it'll look like you've paid for expensive vanity plates

Offhand Manor

I lived in my house for 10 years before I discovered it had a name.

It was built before street numbering was a thing but was subsequently numbered in the sixties.

I keep meaning to get a nampelate made up but, 10 years later I still haven't got round to it.

Oor? as in "Oor House"

Gumdrop Cottage

What perchy said, mine's old enough to have had a name originally, still haven't got round to getting a plate made up for it though...

Is yours on a street/likely to be on a street, in which case pick a number that will bugger up the street numbering in the future 😈

Thoughts?

a first thought should be - contact the council- they often have rules about it.

Anyway,

'Cuesta Verde'

Is yours on a street/likely to be on a street, in which case pick a number that will bugger up the street numbering in the future

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The house is in Malvern and we have a lovely view of the Hills.
Was thinking of Moel-Bryn as that's the old English/Welsh name for Malvern..

You can’t just name a house. The local authority is responsible for street name and number under various Public Health Acts, so you need to go through them (they’ll have a Street Name & Numbering Officer). Land Registry will often check with SNN Officer if their address differs to the national land and property gazetteer (NLPG), which every local authority feeds in to.

Farkham Hall ?

If the house has a number, you can call it what you want e.g. Housey McHouseface, 69 Knob Rd or whatever. If it isn't numbered, you may find your choice is limited.
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What address do the Post Office etc use?

I'd stick with that if you ever want to receive a parcel again.

Martin.

House names are like private 'cherished' plates, just about acceptable if someone buys you one, or in this case if the house was named beforehand, tacky as **** otherwise.

Dave Hodges.

It needs a surname too.

But not yours as as some point you'll get divorced and both you and the house will go separate ways.

Dave Hodges Lodges?

Although the property isn't registered with Land Registry, presumably someone's been living in it, and paying bills there, therefore it will have a registered address.

If it's numbered onto an existing street, you can just give it a name and start using it, but you have to use it in conjunction with the number as that will always be the primary address. Over time Royal Mail will pick it up and it'll get onto the relevant databases/records as an alias, including PAF (Postcode Address File) and probably LLPG/NLPG.

If it's just named, then you can apply to the Local Authority to change the name, they usually charge a nominal admin fee (£25 in my authority I think) to carry this out. They will consult with relevant third parties over the name (to assess suitability and to avoid duplication) and ultimately notify all relevant parties, including Land Registry, Royal Mail, emergency services etc. updating PAF, LLPG & NLPG also.

Used to carry out the SNN function..........

Word of advice - don't use a combination of your name(s) in the name at all, not for techincal reasons, it's just f**g ridiculous.

I know of a 'Silkwood', 'Su-Garry' and just yesterday drove by 'Ross'Leigh Manor'. Fwits.

Although the property isn't registered with Land Registry, presumably someone's been living in it, and paying bills there, therefore it will have a registered address.

My flat ( 80s conversion in a 1870s building) did not have a registed address when I moved in in 1992 - or certainly there was no entry for it on the address database. I had to get it added to the database as companies refused to accept there was a flat there as it didn't appear in their lists

Sea/Bay/Harbour View would be a great name for a house in the midlands. Do that.

The Cottage Inn?

I was about say if you live in Wales.. call it something Scottish or perhaps if you live in West London call it something Jewish.

Just stick with the number and street.

Our house was officially given a made up name that was way too Hobbity and twee. Pain in the arse to transfer it all back to a normal address.

Moel-Bryn

Yep, you're not going to end up constantly spelling that out to any one delivering, etc to you 🙂

New build? Find out what used to be there and name it after that? The irony of finding Oak Sodding Cottage (No 7) in a housing estate built on what was previously 1000 year old beech woodland made me chunder.

Some suggestions from Alan....

Our house has a name - and a number (get us and our fancy ways).

The house name is never used, as it requires local knowledge to understand where to deliver a parcel to.
We just use the house number...

If you're thinking of using Welsh anyway, can I suggest 'Ty Ni'?

Our house in Ireland has no name or street number and postcodes have only been introduced in the last couple of years so no one uses them, we pretty much have to rely on the postman knowing us or giving detailed directions and finish with " ...if you get lost ask anyone for kitty and Dennis's old house"

A word of caution.

I used to work for British Gas way back when, I’ve worked in Banking and now my job involves dealing with logistics a bit.

I would personally take whatever address is in common use now, out you will be mildly irritated to majorly put out for the rest of your time there. It has more of an impact than you might think for untilties, start messing with the address and you’ll never get a internet connection in easily, you’ll have a nightmare with utilities and you’ll end up with a fractured and messy credit history which will likely knock you out of every automated underwriting system on earth.

If you want to name it, go right ahead - choose a name, buy a plaque, screw it to the wall by the door, but if you want to stay sane, but the number on it too.

Good comment P, makes sense 🙂

Word of advice - don't use a combination of your name(s) in the name at all, not for techincal reasons, it's just f*****g ridiculous.

Which is exactly how my grandparents bungalow got named "Gaylands"

Stuck up close I lived in for a short time, all had names instead of numbers causing pain to delivery co's etc - it wasn't until I received the council tax bill that I found out the houses were actually numbered - would have painted the number right across the garage door if it had been my house.

All the houses in our road have names not numbers. Delivery people etc. are always cruising up and down looking for a particular address. If you've got a number stick with that.

Also, when filling in any on-line things that automatically find an address based on a postcode can also be difficult.

There is a house near my work called Gasworks View (has a number too). How I laughed early this year when the gasworks were demolished.

I moved into my house (in north Essex) a few years ago. It's called Drofli. A mysteriously Welsh sounding name, for Essex.

It took a few weeks to realise it's Ilford, backwards ??

Castle <insert surname here>

kenneththecurtain - Member

Castle <insert surname here>

Castle Anthrax

Find out what used to be there and name it after that

Haunted Indian Burial Ground Cottage?

Uncapped mineshaft filled with asbestos, abattoir sweepings and TNT Villa?

Place where they did the 'experiments' that the government has covered up and had everyone involved killed or locked up in asylums Terrace?

Llamedos?

I would personally take whatever address is in common use now, out you will be mildly irritated to majorly put out for the rest of your time there. It has more of an impact than you might think for untilties, start messing with the address and you’ll never get a internet connection in easily, you’ll have a nightmare with utilities and you’ll end up with a fractured and messy credit history which will likely knock you out of every automated underwriting system on earth.

Amen to that - even without making any changes I've been buggered up just because different agencies state names slightly differently

I used to live in 'Name' Farm Cottage - but between them different agencies (utilities, council tax, credit ref agencies stated it differently - some leaving the 'farm' bit out or stating it in two lines 'The Cottage, 'name' Farm' etc.

A pain in the arse when I lived there, but for 6 - 10years afterwards after leaving there it kept being an issue as a previous address on credit apps (even on sim only phone contracts). And thats without any change having been made.

Llamedos?

[b]Stuck up close [/b]I lived in for a short time, all had names instead of numbers causing pain to delivery co's etc

With a street name like that, I’m not surprised 😉

the other naming a house thread from 8 years ago is worth a read.

Favourites are The Frottage Cottage and Austin Taische House

http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/naming-a-house

A mate of mine lives in a house called that, I've know him for 20 years, and I've just realised it's a joke.

Our house has a name, but no number, and it's a damned nuisance, especially as I don't even like the stupid name.

We applied to the local council to be issued with a number, but for complicated reasons they refused.

So now we have deliveries and doctors/paramedics unable to find our house. And also people knocking at the door asking "Is this number 12?". No, it's "Stupid Name" like it says on the gate you've just walked through, and on the door you've just knocked on 🙄

. No, it's "Stupid Name" like it says on the gate you've just walked through, and on the door you've just knocked on

It's not their fault, I promise there are thousands of people out there who move into '29 Acacia Road' and the moment they step over the threshold think to themselves "this is my house, I've bought it, from henceforth it shall be known as Bananaman Castle" and then plain refuse to accept it's number 29, that it was ever 29 or even I'm sure the number 29 exists, they remove any external mention of the number and then go about trying to bend the world to their way of thinking -

I once spent the thick end of a month trying to get gas connected to a house over winter, 4 week this numbskul was so hell bent on getting his stupid house name "on the database" that he refused to accept it had the number it had on it 24 hours before he moved in - 4 weeks his family put up without heating because of his arrogance. Finally I had to get the serial number from the meter, pass it to Centrica, wait for an answer back to it's location (10 days back then) "ah, is it 15 High Street, Anytown?" "NO! It's Idiots Folly, Anytown!" In the end Centrica went loppy because they thought the meter had been stolen and went to 15 High Street to find a normal 3 bed terraced house with some made up name painted above the door.

If I was a courier or an Ambo driver and I saw a house with a name on a street, I'd assume it had a number too and some plum wanted to lord it up a bit.

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That's it, call it Gregory.

If I was a courier or an Ambo driver and I saw a house with a name on a street, I'd assume it had a number

You're crediting couriers with a lot more initiative than they deserve there.

As per my previous post my house was built prior to street numbering.
It was split into two flats in 1963 and the two flats were numbered separately and in sequence with the rest of the street. 41 on the bottom 43* on the top. Next door either side are 39 and 45 respectively.

We bought both upper and lower flats at different times, recombined then into one house again and were issued the replacement house number of 41/43.
There is a plate which says this on the front of the house, clearly visible from the street.

You'd think it would be easy enough to find, right?

Not if you're a courier it seems.

* Actual numbers changed to protect the innocent

As P jay says - you need to use the address on the database. If you don't you cannot get services - this is why I had to get my flat added to the database

Pre Tench House.

[i]Actual numbers changed to protect the innocent [/i]

it's actually 345/476 isn't it?

Call it what you like and ignore any stupid rules. If its an old house and not in a row it will have had a name at some point. Rural house usually do.
My previous house was named way before some twerp at the council started numbering the road which was a touch silly as it was empty. Number 1,3 and 5 were there but nothing across the road. Number 17 existed and then nothing until us at 118. Number 200 and something was there. Fields filled the gaps. We ignored that and used the ancient name as the locals did. Like many grumpy old sods I refuse to bother with a post code even. Most companies can find it from their records.

If I was a courier or an Ambo driver and I saw a house with a name on a street, I'd assume it had a number too and some plum wanted to lord it up a bit.

For maximum points you need a name and no road name. Meaning that whoever is looking for it needs to know where it is.

near me is Nos Mo King

Castle <insert surname here>

Thirtytwo
32 Church Road

...at least everyone will still be able to find it...

or...

use your 'what3words' address - 'mole.left.curving'

Pretin's House*

*Pronounced Pretentious

Lord House
Ace House
The cinnamons
Excalibur cottage

[quote=stevied ]The house is in Malvern

Ledbury view then (I'm assuming it's not in West Malvern).

issued the replacement house number of 41/43.
There is a plate which says this on the front of the house, clearly visible from the street.

You'd think it would be easy enough to find, right?

Not if you're a courier it seems.

He’s still driving up and down there street looking for no.41143

For maximum points you need a name and no road name.

... and a post code that takes people to the other side of a river 🙂

Dammit beaten to Castle Greyskull.

Twitching Hall?

WCA, I had kind of tried that joke earlier, albeit slightly different.

We recently moved into an 1790 house. It has a name, and a nice plate by the door.

It was given a number when the village sprung up, so that's what we use.

Ours in a 1930s semi detached and is named "Thornleigh" on the deeds. I haven't had a plate made up yet because I'm focusing on leasing a white Evoque first.

Our house has a bit of a naff name, but there are no numbers for miles around, it's all just names. Poor delivery drivers, they hate this area. We try not to get Sainsburys to deliver in the dark evenings, poor sods would never find us.

Our house has a name that includes a number, and is on a street with no name where all the houses have names but no numbers. You can imagine the confusion, with lost souls driving up and down trying to find "Dunroamin" or "3 Farm Cottages", never mind the difficulty of filling in the address when a form insists on a street name. It took me weeks of calls to British Gas to get on to a dual fuel tarrif because they had the address for our electricity supply entered differently to our gas supply, but both correct. I dream of the simplicity of house numbers...

I live in a block of 14 flats built in the 80's, standard red brick construction of no architectural merit. It's called College Manor 😆
There used to be a very large detached Victorian house on the site but that still wouldn't have been a Manor House.
I'm on the huge Dulwich estate so a Manor house if there is one is half a mile away where the multi million pound detached properties are around Dulwich College

Delusions of grandeur I think.