Renaming house

silvercar

My house used to have a name not a number. It was the end one of the road, but it was built with a gap between it and the neighbour, I guess someone bought the land and built their house but chose to buy the plot of land a distance away from the neighbour. Then it was given a number, sequenced from the neighbour. A few years later the land in between it and the neighbour was sold and a house built. They then changed the number so that the house numbers were still sequential, so I guess that the name was still used at that time. The name has been lost in the past as I only found it when going through a batch of papers that came with the house.

DullGreyGuy

tealady said:

Well that sent me down a Google rabbit hole - I'd had no idea that I might be legally obliged to display the number of my house!

Of course I'm going to display the number anyway; not doing so would cause far more hassle to me than to anybody else. I've obscured the number before, with scaffolding etc, but I reckoned the postman would see the numbers on either side and work out that I was in the midde. Maybe I'll add a cardboard sign next time I have to do that, but as you say it's very very unlikely anybody will care either way.

Wouldn't rely on the postie! Near me is a street where for about 6 houses the numbers suddenly go backwards (eg 17, 19, 21, 29, 27, 25, 23) I did a double take the 1st time I saw it.
Also on my estate there are no number 13's.

There has always been a myth that number 13s sell for a lower price than other door numbers and so some do decide to skip it to avoid the senseless profit loss. 

Used to live on a long road (for a small town) which used to have several large properties at the outer reaches that overtime had been consumed into the town. Most of them had been knocked down and replaced with short runs of terrace houses named after the former property and so there was:

6 Main St
6 Essex House, Main St
6 Portland House, Main St

Living in one of these terraces, cannot say for the others, how it had been setup in the Royal Mail PAF file meant that some companies didnt automatically include the "Portland House" part or worse still in some places they included it and in some places they didnt. When we had our regular postie he was ok and despite stuff being addressed as 6 Main St he'd put it through out letterbox but when they had a temp in or such then the chap from number 6 had to walk the 2 miles or so of the road redistributing mail as best he could to these developments. 

LHW99

I grew up in a road which only had even numbered houses. Goodness knows why as there were no gaps between the properties.

lincroft1710

My first house was in a long sequentially numbered cul de sac. Nothing unusual in that except the numbers started and finished at the "blind end" rather than at the beginning of the road.

silvercar

I thought the precedent was for house numbering to start with the end of the road nearest to central London, other than cul-de-sacs etc which start at their open end. And for even numbers to be on one side and odd on the other, unless there are only a few houses in a cul-de-sac where they use adjacent numbers for adjacent houses.

christianick

theartfullodger said:

We bought a house in Maidenhead (two moves back).  We decided to name it "Seaview"  (obviously no sea view available) .  Neighbours decided we were even odder than they had thought.. 

you made a great impression

YoungBlueEyes

Wetwang is quite a nice village. V good fish+chips if anyone's in the area wanting some.