Naming of a house

Ivana_Tinkle

scaredlady wrote: »

Oh dear me. I live on a 2 mile long road, in the country, no numbers at all, just house names (that is how it has always been) and to add to it no street lights.
Was loads of fun when we started grocery shopping on line, and the delivery was in the dark.

Yup same here, except in our case the road is about 4 miles long and the road itself doesn't have a name! Oh, and there's not much in the way of mobile reception. I get to meet a lot of very angry delivery drivers!

Sally22_2

My partners parents had this problem but they had a house name only, never used to come up on any databases, you just write to your local council and they get it updated onto the database, it took a couple of weeks to start showing up but now they have no problems.

phoebe1989seb

Ivana_Tinkle wrote: »

Yup same here, except in our case the road is about 4 miles long and the road itself doesn't have a name! Oh, and there's not much in the way of mobile reception. I get to meet a lot of very angry delivery drivers!

Us too, we have just a house name and the name of the village (no road name), although we do have street lighting as the village straddles a fairly main road. Funnily enough we've not had too much of an issue with deliveries in the 22 months since we purchased the house - and we've had a fair few 'cos of all the building work we've been doing - which is surprising as our house name sign is in desperate need of replacing Historically the house has never had a number, although there are a few newer houses at the end of the village that do.

A few years back we added a name to a house that was known by a number only - this was in a city - after five years of ownership we did eventually manage to succeed in getting most mail addressed to xxxxx, x xxxxx road and subsequent owners have kept the name.

We are hoping to change the name of this current house and understand council agreement will be based upon whether there are similarly named properties as our chosen name already in the area..........

SG27

We are finding it hard to get drivers to find our our house. It's jus xxxxx cottage. No number same as all the other old houses in the old part of the village. I can understand the difficulty as they would have to drive up and down the road looking at all the name plates. Although we are also one of a few here listed on google maps too. Albeit in a slightly wrong place.

Strapped

We have a similar problem - [house name], [village name]. Fortunately we have most of the delivery drivers trained by now I also keep a map of the village by the front door as we are one of the few places where you can pull off the main (don't get excited, it's still single track) village road, so we always get any new, lost ones knocking on the door.

Davesnave

We have the same number as a barn conversion 100m away, so the same address and post code, but we also have a name. I don't know how this happened. It doesn't matter, as all the posties know who we are.

In the country, post codes can be rubbish. Ours covers properties over 250m apart as the crow flies, but actually much further if you don't happen to be a crow or own an amphibious vehicle.

We frequently watch newbie delivery drivers getting into a tizzy; it's a sick sort of entertainment.

ILW

scaredlady wrote: »

Oh dear me. I live on a 2 mile long road, in the country, no numbers at all, just house names (that is how it has always been) and to add to it no street lights.
Was loads of fun when we started grocery shopping on line, and the delivery was in the dark.

I would worry if you ever need and emergency ambulance.

cajef

We bought a property with a name and no number and just changed the name when we moved in, we inform all the utilities and the local post sorting office and sent change of address letters to our family and personal contacts with the new name and never had any problems.

arbrighton

We have a house with a number and road name, but the house is at the junction with another road and the entrance appears to be on the other road, which does cause confusion with delivery drivers.
It does seem to have a name as well, which is descriptive (it names the bridge which the house used to go with), but royal mail manage 'number and road name' and that's what finds the house on the postcode finder, and is what the council calls it.
Unfortunately sat navs can't find our house, which is why YODEL etc get a bit stuck.
We sometimes put the house name in as well to try and help deliveries but could otherwise take it or leave it.

Waterlily24

We live in a long road too with no house numbers. There are only about 6 houses in a two mile stretch (dead end). The road that runs up to our road from the village also has a house with the same name (different road name and different postcode and different surname) but we still get their post sometimes. Although it's a different postcode quite often the post we gat has our postcode on it. lol Another confusing thing is that years ago the other road used to have the same name as ours.