On Wed, 1 Jul 2020 at 03:35, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Highly likely these are errors. However it is not impossible that a number > > could be used as a house name. > > Not impossible. But very unlikely. In the UK, you're meant to get your house name approved by the local authority (county council or unitary council, in most cases) and that is very unlikely to be approved. Of course, most people in the UK don't know that and just stick up a house name or change an existing one without approval. Other jurisdictions may not require approval.
Even so, how would one tell if "39" displayed on a house is intended to be a name rather than a number? One way, I suppose, would be if a house displayed both an in-sequence number and a different number, but maybe the house has been split up into two dwellings and one given a new number. But in that case it would be nore likely that 6 would be split into 6 and 6A, or into 6A and 6B, than into 6 and 39. I once mapped a building with "Number 39" displayed on it in very big letters. The houses adjacent to it were 38 and 40. It was an office of some sort. A bit of digging indicated it might be the office of a company providing probation services, so "Number 39" was probably intended to prevent people being embarrassed by being seen entering a probation office whilst making it very clear to those attending for the first time that this was the building they were looking for. It's barely possible the number on a building could be a house name. Some madcap owner deciding to confuse people. Or some business like 3 Mobile (UK cellphone network) using "3" as both the business name and the building name, although I'd expect something like "3 House" in that case. My opinion is treat it as an error. In the few cases (if any) that the number really is the house name, then it's the owner's problem for choosing a stupid name. I shall now apply to my council to name my house "This is not a house name." -- Paul
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