House Names

Cobra said:
Some people see it as a problem, others not.
If you are running a business from home then I guess its obligatory.
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I'm not running a business but am secretary of a sporting association so need to publish a postal address to receive written correspondence.

I suppose people could turn up at my house and try to steal my (rather broken) racing car, if they can figure out which bits they need to dismantle so they can get it through the (also broken, and too narrow) garage door.
 
Years ago a friend had a name plate made for her one bedroom flat. "Wiltshire Grange" IIRC

Always made me smile.
 
I wish all houses had numbers - and clearly displayed them. It matters not if people wish to retain or create a name for their property, as long as the number is displayed.

And we're talking about one of the English numbering conventions. Not the one you find in parts of Wales - aka Random numbering. I kid you not.

As has been mentioned, to get a property name changed you need to advise your local council then check with the Royal Mail PAF that it's been actioned. The problem is usually that the council can be slow to notify RM. Some jobs worth with a shiny arse thinks it's efficient to save up all the notifications and send them to RM as a batch.
 
JonathanRyan said:
I hate house names - my satnav hates them too.
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In which case I'm sure that you'll be glad to know that one of the better regiments of the British Army still has in its Officers' Mess a Fines Book going back to the 1920's in which it is recorded that Second Lieutenant (whoever)

"was fined ten shillings for having a lady friend who lives in a numbered house".
 
2blue4u said:
I wish all houses had numbers - and clearly displayed them. It matters not if people wish to retain or create a name for their property, as long as the number is displayed.

And we're talking about one of the English numbering conventions. Not the one you find in parts of Wales - aka Random numbering. I kid you not.
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Been to Cae Du, Abersoch have you?

The numbers there are seemingly random because it was built in little bits and pieces over some 50 years and not always next to each other, so you get a group of say 4 houses with consecutive numbers, then the next house along could have a gap of say 50, and the missing numbers are some distance away on the far side of the estate.

You can't number everything anyway - what would I be, " 2, The-lane-between-the-B4415-and-B4413-that-passes-through-Garnfadryn-and-Botwnnog" And that's assuming the house next door which has a mile and a half of driveway is considered number 1 because the driveway come out closer to the B4415 than ours!
 
When I lived "at home" with Mum and Dad, we lived in a village and had just a house (well, cottage) name and no number. Ours was the very last (or first) property on the lane out of (or into) the village and Mum always used to give directions to "the last house on the left". Chocolate teapot springs to mind! Numbering the houses would have been no use - new ones kept springing up all along the lane so numbers would have ended up being non consecutive anyway. Our current house is on an estate and between the planning stage and actual construction, more houses were added but after the GPO (as I think it was back then) had created their database. As a consequence, we're plot #9 but have a number rather higher than that. For the first few years, we got mail delivered for plot (current number) as well as our own mail and also had some delivered to #9. We still do get some fairly random deliveries when the usual postie is on holiday - the replacements seem to be both dyslexic and innumerate (or plain stupid...)
 
Our house is called Roseleigh.... Don't use it on normal correspondence but the gas bills etc always come to us with the house name on.... I think its quite pretty :)
 
ours already had a name when we moved to wales ,


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One of the most annoying things for me as a delivery person, is that developers always start with Plot Numbers and the actual house numbers never appear till
people start moving in and never ever tire up with the plot number :banghead:
So plot 67 becomes No 1 and vice versa.
They also give their developments names before ok'ing them with the relevant authorities,
 
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Pretentious [PLEASE DON'T TRY TO BYPASS THE SWEAR FILTER].

If I bought a house with a name, I'd remove it, and put a number there... or at least ALSO put the number there, so that delivery drivers can actually deliver the goods I've ordered without going insane, or driving slowly up and down the road in the vain hope that I will notice them and flag them down.

House names are stupid, outdated and pretentious. If I lived in Tatton Hall... fair enough, but if you're just a house on a street with many, many other houses, it just makes zero sense.
 
Gremlin said:
One of the most annoying things for me as a delivery person, is that developers always start with Plot Numbers and the actual house numbers never appear till
people start moving in and never ever tire up with the plot number :banghead:
So plot 67 becomes No 1 and vice versa.
They also give their developments names before ok'ing them with the relevant authorities,
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Thats because if the developer was to wait for the local authority to rubber stamp the addressing they would never get the damn thing built

Invariably a developer will give their development a provisional identity usually akin to the local area but 9/10 its temporary until the development is complete and stret names/numbers are assigned - certainly in scotland anyway!
 
Anyone wishing to change there address, either by taken away part, or adding part has to go through there local council, post office has to be informed by the local council, costs can be around £35, Post Office has control on postcodes. Remember it will cause issues, you will also need to inform all your correspondences such as banks etc.
There's also google earth and sat nav to consider.
We have both name and number, however our post still delivers to various address's with in my area, even though our two cottages have a unique post code.
 
Being in the courier industry house names annoy the heck out of me.

if next door one way is number 18 and next door the other way is number 22. Then please put number 20 when you want things delivered.
Dunroamin on the A6 doesn't help narrow it down
 
I think that the only instance of a house number sounding more exclusive than the house name, would be Apsley House, aslo known as "Number 1, London" - pretty cool IMO.
 
This house we just moved into is called Four Oaks , maybe because there are 4 oak trees in the back garden
 
As a kid, we lived in a house called Elmfield for fairly obvious reasons when we moved in. Dutch Elm disease soon made the house name Stumpland more appropriate!
 
realspeed said:
This house we just moved into is called Four Oaks , maybe because there are 4 oak trees in the back garden
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Just out of curiosity, has "Seven Oaks" in Kent been renamed yet? :D
 
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