Changing house name. Possible unintended consequences?

Slinky

jackieblack said:

onomatopoeia99 wrote: »

there is no "correct" number as who knows what end to start counting from or which side should be even numbers .

In the road I live in, the houses (all built at the same time) are numbered sequentially, up to 22 on one side of the road and 23 onwards coming back in the opposite direction on the other side of the road.
Always confuses new postmen

If you think that's odd (which it isn't, many streets are numbered sequentially in that way including the one we moved from), there's a street where I used to live that was 1 to 20 down one side and 21 onwards down the otherside, except the numbering started sequentially again from the head of the street with 21 opposite 1, so if you didn't notice, and were looking for number 21, you could walk down the street past all of 1 to 20, before having to walk all the way back up the street to find 21 etc.  I think this came about as 1-20 were Victorian cottages that were originally opposite an open field. Then the council built houses opposite in the 1950s starting at the top.

Apodemus

In some Highland villages, the houses were numbered sequentially...as they were randomly built over a long space of time.  They are not numbered per street but simply addressed as #x, Y Village. The result is a couple of hundred houses each with a number, but in no order whatsoever across various streets.  The postie knows his way about, but nobody else has a clue!