Named house, or number?

studentguy

Hi,

We've just bought a house that has a name. When typing in the postcode on online forms the property is listed twice, once under the house name and once under it's number. Which should we be using? Does it matter?

Never had a house with a name before, not sure what the etiquette is. Should we stick with one (typing in the name as appropriate), or use whichever is listed on the site?

Thanks

Cakeguts

The number is the one you use. The name is an optional extra to go with the number.

Mojisola

studentguy wrote: »

We've just bought a house that has a name. When typing in the postcode on online forms the property is listed twice, once under the house name and once under it's number. Which should we be using? Does it matter?

If you like the name and want to use it, give your address as
House Name
Number, Road Name
Town
Postcode.

[Deleted User]

Use the number ...

Speaking as a member of the emergency services, finding a house with a name is a nightmare. If its a number we can find the surrounding numbers and follow the sequence to find you easier.

Davesnave

The number matters most. A few years ago the PO was informed by our council that we and another house in the same postcode/small location had the same number. It had taken them 24 years to realise, as the postman had no problem with it.

It didn't matter that they were 'Wurzel Cottage' and we were 'Dunbovverin', the situation with two identical numbers couldn't be allowed to stand.

So, we were given a new address which no longer mentions the hamlet name. Our number vanished too.

But guess who couldn't get the hang of this? Yes, the council. Only this morning I let out a cheer, because the Electoral Roll thingy that arrived from them had the new address on it. Well, only 5 years have elapsed!

SG27

Yes use the number. My previous house had no number, only a name. It was a nightmare getting things delivered as no one could find us!

Gers

Not many houses within three miles of me have numbers. No streets either. Luckily the posties are very good and know people, same with our two delivery companies who are sub contracted by the major ones.

I suppose numbers take precedence in urban areas.

Davesnave

It can be a nightmare for emergency services in rural places.

Let's say our hamlet is called Thelwell. There are about 15 houses here, which apart from us now, have Thelwell in their address.

But in the same postcode, 300m away, are Thelwell Toll House and Thelwell Cottage. Then there's Thelwell Farmhouse, now renamed in the same shake-up that affected us, as Thelwell House.

Finally, there's Little Thelwell, which is physically about 50m from the main Thelwell settlement, but as it has its own lane, reaching it takes an extra journey of half a mile.

todayisagreatday

I love having a name. We were number 1 'boring cul-de-sac' and now we have a proper cute name that reflects the location. We have been through all the old paperwork of the house even before it was built in the 70's, before then it was some kind of garden nursery, then for a few years nothing. Some really old paperwork came through and over a hundred years or so we have tracked back that our house land was also a post office, a school and some kind of machine house to the canal so the plot has a varied history!

That said I've no idea on how people find us and others, we all have the same postcode and generally names rather than numbers although some do have number then name but we have always had a name. I'd definitely bdo as the other poster suggested and use both, I guess it depends on if you like the name?

Our posty is great, Amazon not so much luckily we all know one another so it's like pass the parcel at least once a week to try and locate what we have ordered and find where it has gone ..

Davesnave

todayisagreatday wrote: »

I love having a name. We were number 1 'boring cul-de-sac' and now we have a proper cute name that reflects the location .

I'm not particularly fond of our name, but at least it's just boring, not pretentious.


And it could be worse. According to Western Power, who pay us a yearly wayleave, we are "Piggeries."

Doozergirl

I like "Piggeries". If that's what it was

We're going to be "The Old Scrapyard". With a door number for Amazon. Yodel will never find us.