House has mystery name....can I use it officially?

[knotweed]

My brother's house doesn't have a number or a street name. His address is like this:
[House name]
[Farm name]
[Hamlet]
[Nearest town]
Cornwall.

[AC43]

Coco H said:

My house has a name. We decided to change the name as my neighbours and I - all three of us in our postcode get each others post. 6 years ago we changed the name with the land registry but that hasn't worked. Every time I use an internet site with a postcode only sort - the name isn't there and we have to have the old name.
It's been a nightmare. The first mortgage was registered in the new name. The remortgage had to be in the old name or the computer said no. Likewise many other things.

This was my point earlier. So many IT systems struggle with "non-number" addresses I for one certainly would not bother.

The simplest and most accurate way of identifying a property in these systems is Street Number + Street Name + Post Code. Leave any one of these out at your peril :-)

[theironduke]

AC43 said:

Coco H said:

My house has a name. We decided to change the name as my neighbours and I - all three of us in our postcode get each others post. 6 years ago we changed the name with the land registry but that hasn't worked. Every time I use an internet site with a postcode only sort - the name isn't there and we have to have the old name.
It's been a nightmare. The first mortgage was registered in the new name. The remortgage had to be in the old name or the computer said no. Likewise many other things.

This was my point earlier. So many IT systems struggle with "non-number" addresses I for one certainly would not bother.

The simplest and most accurate way of identifying a property in these systems is Street Number + Street Name + Post Code. Leave any one of these out at your peril :-)

But for a lot of rural properties there are no street names and ergo no numbers.

[bimsb6]

knotweed said:

My brother's house doesn't have a number or a street name. His address is like this:
[House name]
[Farm name]
[Hamlet]
[Nearest town]
Cornwall.

Ours is exactly like that ,.

[groucho]

Our house doesn't have a number, nor do any of the houses in the village.

[skeggysteve]

Our old house only had a name, village, postcode. It was the official Post Office address but obviously it was on a road but the road name wasn't needed for the Post Office.

The postcode was just our house so using a satnav made find us easy, when you got to our drive "you have arrived"!

But we had to call the Fire Brigade and they couldn't find us because they didn't use satnav.
They used a map and because the 999 operator had only taken our address, without, the road name they struggled to find us.

[Lemmonie]

My house has a name. No number and never has.

Weirdly though at the very end of my LNG road some new houses have been built and they were given numbers. 1-8 I believe.

[slow_poke]

furtive said:

Does peoples Google not work any more?

Related to that plaintive cry - googling Croquet House give either a Grade II listed house and outbuildings, or an end-of-terrace with a really rather manky flat roof rear extension...

Googling is fun!

[Andehh]

Grandparents used to have a pure house name, no number attached. Postmen knew it by experience but god forbid tescos/visitors/parcels needed to find the place. All big houses long drives and a lot of standing the middle of the road waving...

[dxg]

wildcat45 said:

On Friday, we were just going out. My wife was locking up, but called me back from the car. There, in the glass above the door, faint but readable was a name.

I'll just leave this here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iOePiEtM_U

[AC43]

theironduke said:

But for a lot of rural properties there are no street names and ergo no numbers.

Yeah fair enough. But the OP is considering ditching the existing number and swapping it for a name.

The chances of that change rippling successfully through all the IT systems concerned now and in the future without causing problems is a big fat zero.

It's a nice idea but in the real world it will cause lots of unintended consequences.

[New POD]

My parents live in a house with the address

Brookside
Name of Village
Name of Island
Name of town on Mainland
Post Code.
Wales

No House number, no road name.

House was built in the 1960's I think.

[Vipers]

Luke. said:

Vipers said:

I may be wrong, but I always thought house names had numbers as well.

My cousins address is

Mr xxxxx
"Mallards"
5 Winchester Way. Etc etc.

It's only called Mallards because it's opposite a duck pond (Ducks - Mallards).

I could be totally wrong though, but your idea does sound sort of posh, good luck.

My house is just a name and no number. So you're totally wrong

Good to know I was RIGHT, when I said I could be totally wrong

[onomatopoeia]

Coco H said:

My house has a name. We decided to change the name as my neighbours and I - all three of us in our postcode get each others post. 6 years ago we changed the name with the land registry but that hasn't worked. Every time I use an internet site with a postcode only sort - the name isn't there and we have to have the old name.
It's been a nightmare. The first mortgage was registered in the new name. The remortgage had to be in the old name or the computer said no. Likewise many other things.

When I bought my previous house, we decided to change the name (no numbers on the road), as "Colinswood" didn't appeal to either me or the ex. Told the conveyancing solicitor (who told the land registry), the council and the royal mail. Postcoding databases took about six months to catch up - this was 1996 when they only sent out new datasets every three months.

Some years later the council allocated us all numbers, which caused much more trouble as the posties couldn't find the houses by number.

[Some Gump]

wildcat45 said:

Coquet House. Pronounced Coe-Ket It is an island off the Northumberland coast.

Cest ne pas un river?

[wildcat45]

dxg said:

I'll just leave this here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iOePiEtM_U

Thanks for that. Fascinating. I actually have an internal vestibule door and screen in period glass like that chap makes, sand blasted or etched, I am not sure which.

My wife reckons she will be able to trace at least some of the "Coquet House" script so we can get someone to replicate the font in Gold leaf or something similar. A few houses around apoear to have local names in the fanlights, so it might be worth finding out if they are original.

In addition, I have contacted the estate who owned the land and who apoarently dictated the house style and design. They think they may have information on the property.

Exciting stuff.

[wildcat45]

Some Gump said:

Cest ne pas un river?

River and an island. On a coear night we can see the lighthouse there....Not from my house, but from the seafront nearby.

[Some Gump]

Sweet, never knew there was an island. Bloody logely part of the world though.

[agent006]

D_G said:

Vipers said:

Post codes are for roads' not the houses in them, so not sure what you mean.

Not necessarily...

Similarly, our office building has four postcodes. One for the building itself (that nobody ever uses) and one for each tenant. Quite why, I've no idea.

[jamieclueless]

my house is addressed like this:-

house name
nearest town (12 miles away)
postcode (unique to my house)

I built the house and contacted my local council(they have a department responsible for naming new buildings,streets etc) with my suggested name for it, they agreed with this then contacted all the relevant people (post office, police, telephone company, land registry etc)

within a few days search engines could find my address and I could order stuff online and get courier deliveries.