House Names

[Blue Jam]

Excalibur Cottage

[Vodka Margarine]

Casa Bevron

[garnish]

Lord House

[Autopsy Turvey]

Arguably the best Alan Simpson cameo in radio Hancock is as a magnificently grumpy socialist postman who rails against this phenomenon. "Middle-class bourgeois decadency, that's what it is. Snobs, all of you. Too posh to give your houses numbers, ain't we? Dunroamin, Bella Vista, The Warren, and this fiasco you live in, 'Windsor Castle'..." I used to think it was pretentious absurdity when I was a youngster, now I find it quite charming. I passed a suburban house called Camelot once, I had to admire the audacity.

[Ian Drunken Smurf]

When I was a kid there was a house nearby (also in an urban Kent residential area) called "Passing Wind", and it took me years to figure out why my parents would snigger at it whenever we drove past. Looking back, it was obviously some Colin Hunt type who lived there but I still hold out a tiny hope that it was someone completely oblivious.

Wasn't that house in Pratt's Bottom?

[Ferris]

Lord House

Denton Abbey.

[PlanktonSideburns]

* Mar-a-Lago and Velociraptor

I think my dad used their accountancy firm a couple of times, stand up dudes

[Samuro]

In Spain it is not a problem at all. You just buy any villa for sale in Spain (https://tranio.com/spain/detached/ like these ones) and they come with it's personal name already or when finalizing property documents you can change it to the name you want ))) Which is so cool in my opinion

[studpuppet]

In what I'm sure is a case of epic trolling by two neighbours, there are are three houses in a row near me that are named, 'Chez Nous', 'Casa Nostra', and 'Heimat'.

[Norton Canes]

Dunwankin

[Norton Canes]

I haven't even looked at page 1 to see if anyone's used a Dun-sumthin' joke already. Just thought it up, posted, kinda guy I am.

[Jockice]

The house I live in is officially called (name of street) Lodge. There's even a sign outside stating it. I haven't a clue why. It's also apparently a limited company. Which means I occasionally get letters asking me to make investments. They'll be bloody lucky. I have a one-bedroom flat which is falling apart. Worth about a fiver I'd say.

[Twed]

When I was six or seven we moved into a house that had the name "Cressbrook". Perhaps due to the influence of American TV, I asked my parents if we had to change our surname to Cressbrook.

It was probably an early sign of low self-esteem that I thought a house could be the boss of what I'm called.

[Sebastian Cobb]

See also: everything

Even this?

[Ambient Sheep]

I did most of my growing up on the edge of a village in a house that only had a name.  I remember being reduced nearly to tears by a primary school teacher who refused to believe that such a thing existed.

I can't remember why it being a number was so vitally important, perhaps it was part of some maths game she was playing... I know that my lack of such was crippling to her plans.

It went something like this:

"Now, all write down your house number."
"But Miss X, my house doesn't have a number."
"Oh but it must have one."
"But it doesn't.  Just a name."
"Come now, your parents may have given it a name as well but just put down the number."
"No they haven't, it's only ever had a name, its never had a number."
"Oh nonsense, every house has a number, you must know what it is..."

In the end I half-convinced her, but I gather it took until Parents' Evening and her checking with them to really believe it.

Can't remember how we fixed the immediate problem, I think in the end she just made up some number and told me to pretend it was that.  Lame, she should have made me add up all the positions in the alphabet of the letters and used that instead.

The odd thing is, it was hardly the only one... there must have been at least thirty or forty such houses in that village.  Sadly none of them seemed to be populated by any of the other kids in my class.

And no, it wasn't some posh old mansion, just a mid-60s semi-, although admittedly in a rather nice setting.

(The 1970s there, when the school office didn't keep everyone's home address, phone number and 93 nexts-of-kin on file.)

[Ambient Sheep]

I've told this on here before, but on a surburban street near where my aunt used to live, someone built themselves a new house (rare in those days) next to number 1.

They christened it "MINUS ONE".  At the time I thought this was brilliant, now I tend to think of it more as SFC.

Actually, typing it into Google, it seems there's loads of them these days.  Here's the one I'm talking about.

[a duncandisorderly]

In Spain it is not a problem at all. You just buy any villa for sale in Spain (https://tranio.com/spain/detached/ like these ones) and they come with it's personal name already or when finalizing property documents you can change it to the name you want ))) Which is so cool in my opinion

but you never ever get any post. ever.

[a duncandisorderly]

The house I live in is officially called (name of street) Lodge. There's even a sign outside stating it.

I lived in a house called windermere house, in windermere terrace. there wasn't the slightest chance of the postie missing it, as it sat square across the end of the cul-de-sac the terrace was in, & was at least twice the size of the rest of the houses, & it had a massive sign proclaiming its name. fritz spiegl lived next door, trivia fans. nice bloke he was. the gaff I was in (renting the attic, I was) had belonged to roger mcgough. scouse royalty.

[Durance Vile]

Wasn't that house in Pratt's Bottom?

That would have been too good to be true. It was Walderslade Bottom, though, which runs it close. 

[mothman]

I haven't even looked at page 1 to see if anyone's used a Dun-sumthin' joke already. Just thought it up, posted, kinda guy I am.

That's OK, it was only me. And I operate under the assumption I've been blocked for being boring.

[Glebe]

There's a Rivendell near me. Probably a lot of them about, tbh...