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  • House names
  • CaptainFlashheart
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    There’s a “Dunroaming” in the village. A classic example of terrible old puns as house names.

    There is also, more worryingly, a house named “Butt’s Haven”.

    Is it terribly wrong that I want to edit the name sign?

    Bregante
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    My mates house is called Gracelands.

    Their postie (an Elvis fan) tried to engage her in conversation about the king of rock and roll. Until she pointed out that their surname is Grace and played dumb about knowing that there was another house in Tennessee with the same name.

    monkeychild
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    There is also, more worryingly, a house named “Butt’s Haven”.

    Maybe they need this thread?? Clean as

    scaredypants
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    Ours is called **** Hall

    unknown
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    There’s an Ivory Towers on our street (of terraced cottages), which has always amused me. Everyone else just has a number.

    shifter
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    Ours is called Sidedna.

    thegreatape
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    There’s a Dunrentin near us. And loads of Gaelic ones.

    bikemike1968
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    There are two identical bungalows next to each other up the road from us – one is called “Simla” and the other “Nexdor”
    As a Yorkshireman might say “There’s nowt as queer as folk”.

    dazh
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    My in-laws had a neighbour who named his house ‘Llamedos’. It was a not very subtle dig at the locals who all objected to his planning application for a spanish style villa in the Kent greenbelt.

    maccruiskeen
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    There is also, more worryingly, a house named “Butt’s Haven”.

    We had our eye on a fixer-upper called ‘Little Black Dykes’

    mcmoonter
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    I have a friend in East Lothian with a house called Clint. The sign at the end of their drive is in the upper case. CLINT.

    They have a tin of white paint on permanent stand by.

    DJC75
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    I went to school with a girl that grey up in a house called Nooky Hole.

    scaredypants
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    I have a friend in East Lothian with a house called Clint.

    Why ?

    The sign at the end of their drive is in the upper case. CLINT

    WHY?? 😯

    tomaso
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    This is not my photo of a house named after the hill it sits on in Satterthwaite

    teasel
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    Scaredypants – squint.

    Edit : though they obviously don’t enjoy the obvious alteration if they have a tin of paint on standby. 🙂

    tang
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    My surname is Andrews, my house is called St Andrews House. Fairly annoying. Mind you my childhood address was: Emerald Hollow, Badgers lane, Nr Paradise…!
    Theres a few too many ‘Shepards Croft’ or Orchard Mews’ type new places round here for my liking.

    Onzadog
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    look at the “L” and the “I” closely.

    Same as the girl at work who left a note on some guideance documents which said, in block capitals, “THOUGH YOU MIGHT LIKE A QUICK FLICK BEFORE WE GO OUT”.

    bruneep
    Full Member

    Is it CLINT’s house?

    toxicsoks
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    After moving up to Keswick in September and seeing as every other house is called How(e) Cottage/Crag/View, I was very tempted, as a Yorkshireman and fan of a certain 80’s hardcore band, to call ours How(e) Dü…..
    IGMC.

    scaredypants
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    @ teasel, onza etc – I get the CLINT joke, as does all the rest of the nation, pretty much. Questions therefore:

    why would you call your house Clint anyway ?

    why would you have the sign in upper case ?

    kcal
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    Seen quite a few variations on “Tildeus” – as in, I suppose, “it’ll do us”.

    BillMC
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    When I used to do the Christmas post as a student, I had the pleasure of delivering to an ‘Ellinside’ and a ‘Fircombe Hall’.

    singlespeedstu
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    Rode past this place a while ago.

    [url=https://flic.kr/p/72UW6h]2009_0927ashtonlot0030[/url] by multispeedstu, on Flickr

    drlex
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    Clint’s cake suffered kerning failure:

    Sensibly, Mrs Lex wouldn’t let me name our new abode “Bedside Manor”.

    rOcKeTdOg
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    We have a few “far corfes” around here

    breadcrumb
    Full Member

    House named Firkewe Hall on the way out of Carlisle IIRC.

    teasel
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    I get the CLINT joke, as does all the rest of the nation

    Ah, okay. Gotcha.

    why would you call your house Clint anyway ?

    **** knows…

    Greybeard
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    A quiet colleague of mine, not given to frivolity, has a house called “Nine Trees”. I asked if it has nine trees; “No, it’s number 27”.
    He inherited it, apparently.

    ourmaninthenorth
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    Had a teacher at prep school whose house was named “Crusty Buttocks”.

    Private education, eh?

    richmars
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    I work on a business park. It’s called Buckingway Business Park. The locals have been busy recently with tape to change Buckingway into something else.

    stevestunts
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    With me being a big fan of the late 80s / early 90s rave scene, I’ve been trying to convince my wife that we should call our home ‘Acid House’.

    Anything has got to be better than the terminally dull ‘Greystones’ that we inherited, surely?

    I might just get a piece of slate engraved with a made-up rude word, swap the sign and see how long it takes her to realise. ‘Bifkin’ or ‘Jizzbolt’ might do.

    parkesie
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    Greystones change it to greyskull surely.

    rocketman
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    One or two around our way named after places in LOTR. Helm’s Deep doesn’t really work on a bungalow

    We also have the stereotypical murdered-out 4WD owner who’s house is called Dilligaf

    maccruiskeen
    Full Member

    a house named after the hill it sits on

    Conversely – theres a house on a hill near me called ‘Hillhouse’

    The hill the house is on is called ‘Hillhouse Hill’

    WorldClassAccident
    Free Member

    Austin Tasche House

    Pretin’s House

    slowpuncheur
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    Best one I have come across (ahem) is at GR:

    373771
    458364

    squirrelking
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    373771
    458364


    Que?

    maccruiskeen
    Full Member

    373771
    458364

    Those have got to be some long streets for house numbers like that 🙂

    bearnecessities
    Full Member

    I might name mine kinedache.

    slowpuncheur
    Free Member

    Grid Reference see? I couldn’t be arsed screen grabbing from a map etc.

    Anyway, try this:

    House for sale

    Ideal for Gisburn…

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