Houses

[GrannyMac]

The Edwardian block of flats I grew up in had a name. None since, although my son's does, like most of the ones in their village.   

[Diasi]

If a house only has a name & no number that's reasonable.

Giving a house with a number a name is just pretentious.

It's the sort of thing that the Hyacinth Buckets of this world do.

[Scrumpy]

Pretentious  !!!!!  
No way am I a Hyacinth Bucket..
My house has a name simply because I built a house between two other houses .. That meant the house had to have a letter behind it (A B..).. and mail/Amazon etc went to wrong houses..  A name  saved confusion for deliveries.. 
The letter B b behind a number easily becomes an 8 or 6..

[GrannyMac]

If a house only has a name & no number that's reasonable.

Giving a house with a number a name is just pretentious.

It's the sort of thing that the Hyacinth Buckets of this world do.

There's a bog standard, mid terrace house near here called 'The Priory'. All the street is numbered. As you say, pretentious.