Can anyone change their house/flat number to a name? Like Highgrove for example?

breadlinebetty

Can anyone name a house? For example, if I lived in a mid-terrace at number 52,say, could I name it The Lodge? Or if I lived in a converted upstairs flat of a house, say, 67C, could I name it RoyalGrove?

jojo9239

Hi yes you can, you will need to inform Royal Mail so they can change there postal address file

terryw

jojo9239 wrote: »

Hi yes you can, you will need to inform Royal Mail so they can change there postal address file

Not quite. You can use a name as well as the number but not just a name.

Here's a link

http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/content1?catId=400044&mediaId=9200078#3400062

terryw

jojo9239

Ok my bad;)

Gwhiz

I guess it all depends on your level of pretension!

theartfullodger

When we lived in Maidenhead - about 50 miles from the sea ? - we named our house, also IIRC #6, "Seaview".

Didn't half confuse the neighbours. Confirmed their view that we were mad (we knew we were mad).

My dear aunt Rita gave me £10k & I used it towards a deposit on another house to rent out. It is now named "Burns Cottage" (Burns being her maiden name) whilst remaining #63. Sent her a 'photo of it..

I'd only give a numbered house a name ....
a) As a "joke" - probably feeble I grant.
b) As a homage to someone else...
c) For most other reasons, only if I was going to be happy with quite a few people thinking I was a stuck-up prat.

Cheers!

Lodger

terryw

I agree with you that it is good fun for a joke. You might be interested in an experience of mine.

Some years ago I lived in an upper flat on a rough council estate which I shall refer to as "No Hope Meadows". There were half posh private houses adjoining but suffering the same name of the estate, and the owners of the said posh houses used to voice their opinions in the local pub, the "Biggles Flies Undone" by name, that the value of their houses was reduced by the name and reputation of "No Hope Meadows".

One evening , these owners came into the pub and gleefully announced that they had managed to persuade the local authority, the Pig's Knuckle Council, to change the designation of the posh houses to "Toffeetree Glade". Note though that this was just the posh houses not the council houses which were still "No Hope Meadows".

However, their joy was short-lived as the next evening I turned up with some new business cards (acquired by simply bribing a chum with a couple of pints to prepare them on his computer). My cards read:
terryw
The Penthouse apartment
537 Gasworks Alley
Lower Toffeetree Glade
Pig's Knuckle
Midshire
PG99 ZZZ99

The other denizens of "No Hope Meadows" seized upon the humour and it took many years for the new name to establish itself. The posh houses were always referred to as "Upper Toffeetree", and the council houses as "Lower Toffeetree" never "No Hope Meadows".
Boy, did this not wind-up the posh chaps!

The reality is, of course, that much of an address is superflous .......the main thing is the postcode.

terryw