We have lived in the same house for over 15 years. SWMBO has decided that she wants a house number put up by the front door.
Whilst driving through some streets today I noticed some do and some don't.
Do you? Any particular reason for/against?
My lack of number is down to sheer laziness, nothing else!
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Ours is displayed, wooden plaque with brass numbers. Was there when we bought the house.
I can tell you from the point of view of a tradesman who has to find peoples houses while driving along a road, the number is FOR US, so make it big enough to read at a glance and not in some silly font that mearges into the background. Otherwise, whats the point, I mean, most people know what house number they live at, its others who dont :-)
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Our last 3 owses had names + they were in the sticks & individual, like (non estate)
A real pain for tradesmen etc. to find :)
Present house has a number (displayed) but I forked out 30 sovs for a black granite (Spanish) plaque with the house No. + the name in silver (very nice) but its too salubrious for a beaded scruff from sowf lunden,
I'll fit the blimming thing when I sell the gaff.
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I have the right number on the front door and the wrong number on the back door.
To explain, the back door only looks out on to the enclosed rear yard, so cannot be seen by the outside world.
A previous owner must have changed the door and fitted a secondhand one from another house.
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When the properties on our road were allocated house numbers (previously we just had house names) the authorities said we had a fortnight in which to display the number. If we didn't, they said they would affix a number themselves and charge us accordingly.
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Said to be absolutely essential for visits by the emergency services. If you're having a heart attack you don't want the ambulance to spend twnety minutes looking for the right house...
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Wheelie Bins - best landmarking device ever - big numerals painted on by hand !
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We've had some phobias mentioned of late such as Homo and Zeno but ...
how's about Triskaidekaphobia - any sufferers out there?
we lived at a No. 13 a few years a'back, and came out alive but - then I was bjorn on the 13th :)
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I'm required by law to have a metal plaque on the side of my house about 40cm by 30cm. It's bright blue and on the top is the name of the street in white type, underneath is a huge number, below that is a red strip with white out type displaying the name of the district.
When they built our street, they did our side first and and the other side a year later after they got planning permission. Our side is numbered 1-24. Instead of numbering the other side 25-48, they are numbered 1a-24a. This is mildly irritating to say the least because it's a gated community and tradesmen have to buzz the home to have the gate opened. Of course 21a never buzz 21a, they always buzz me at 21 which means I have to run down two flights of stairs from my office to my hallway to let in a delivery for someone else.
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House number displayed along with name.
What's more amusing is our office. The building number is clearly displayed on the outside. However, the numbers don't follow the usual odds/evens convention. Instead number one is at the south east end, numbers then run up the east side and back down the west to around 100. Mergers of buildings and the effects the Luftwaffe and subsequent vandals have removed some buidings entirely so many numbers are missing.
It's quite amusing that the visitors who have most truoble finding it are consultants, management board members and eminent speakers ariving for meetings!!!
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Some streets in central London are numbered 1,2,3,4, on one side then 5,6,7,8 on the other.
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>> Some streets in central London are numbered 1,2,3,4, on one side then 5,6,7,8 on the
>> other.
That's exactly the situation (and location) I mean!!!!!
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Some French towns have houses numbered according to their distance from the start of the road. So number 35 might be next to number 78.
Makes in-fill easier and, I suppose, finding a house, provided you know which end of the street is regarded as the start.
Terry
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Most annoying ive ever had was when I used to collect Rovers for servicing.
Posh new build house but terrible design. It has two front doors. One with a number and the other with a letterbox and a bell. It was designed to look like two houses, ie each half was an entirely different design.
The upshot was that we knocked on the door with the number, as you would, we were looking for a number. We got no answer so rang the office and they said leave it, so we did.
She rang later complaining we hadnt called round - our manager told her to sort her front doors out - apparently she was too far from the door we knocked on to hear it. We went back the next day and got the car, a rare 800 Vitesse Coupe, went like stink.
The lesson, dont get all clever and have more than one front door.
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I adder house once with NO front door and NO house number, and it was detached + on its own,
imagine the fun delivery drivers had with that one!
The house had been converted you see, and what was the lounge is now a bedroom,
so the back door was the front door (if you see what I mean)
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It seems to be the practice here in Wales to number the houses on an estate in the order in which they are built, regardless of their actual position on the road.
Sometimes the same number is used twice.
We don't have a number, or a street name, or a village, living in splendid isolation. The town name is not the obvious, ie nearest one, because of a quirk in the BT allocation of post codes.
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>> When the properties on our road were allocated house numbers (previously we just had house
>> names) the authorities said we had a fortnight in which to display the number. If
>> we didn't, they said they would affix a number themselves and charge us accordingly.
NO sticker son bins is one thing, but Order you to put number on you house or they will do it?? They dont have the power unless its council owned. I would have told them to sod off and try it.
What is your local council? Kremlin central?
Last edited by: Zero on Thu 10 Jun 10 at 12:14
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I go to new houses every day and there is nothing worse in finding a few houses in a row with no number especialy at night.
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^^ What Rattle said.
Worse actually is when someone decides to give their house a name when it should have a number. Worse on long streets when you have to look at every single house. Worked part time as a courier last year. Hated people who did that.
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I have a number, but none of the othere flats in the block do. The posty therefore finds it easier to put everyones mail through my door for onward distribution. Grrr.
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stick them back in the post box
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I used to regularly pick up at this house: bit.ly/cAscAW
The number, as can be seen above the garage door, is "Zero". It's built between No.2 and the back of the apartment block on the corner, so technically it's correct. :-)
From my cab-driving days I would say that only around a third of houses had numbers clearly visible from the road - extrapolation was usually (although not always) the answer. Fine for taxis, annoying for pizza deliveries, downright dangerous for ambulances.
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My brothers street seems to have the houses numbered at random, or possibly the order they were built in reading a post above.
There was no number on our door when we first moved in and not on the house next door either. This caused some confusion as we live at number 13 and a few streets round here don't have a number 13 so we'd often get number 15's post if it wasn't the normal postman.
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We have a cast resin thingy on the gatepost with a raised number under a garland of flowers.
Sort of thing they rip you off for in garden centres. The numbers were gold but they faded and I did a really professional job on them with Tippex.
The corporation built huge numbers of houses in the thirties and fitted slightly raised, screww on numbers to the front doors.
Over the years the paint built up and latterly the doors were painted grey with the numbers just being painted over.
Nightmare to pick out at night when on a late call-out !
Ted
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Can't really comment; my house has no number, and its name is "New House" in Welsh despite the fact that it dates from 1780!
Most annoying thing I came acrooss was in the days when I used to do some agency work for various builders' merchants. When delivering to a new housing estate, it's common to find that the plot number bears absolutely no relation to the house number. If the delivery was to the main site office, not too bad, but if it was a delivery for one of the plumbers or specialist tradesmen, you could waste an hour trying to find them.
One for Pat here on this subject; what's unusual about High Street in Lincoln?
Last edited by: Harleyman on Thu 10 Jun 10 at 20:10
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Well, I've google mapped it and it appears to be in Conningsby!
Pat
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>> ............. what's unusual about High Street in Lincoln?
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The property numbers are consecutive starting at the south end (going north on the west side) and when they get to the north end they continue from north to south on the east side. The shop at the north end faces down the High Street rather than across it. Number 1 is The Riverside Cafe. The highest number (477-480) is Peugeot dealer Robins and Day and it faces number 1, The Riverside Cafe.
On the west side, there are shops on the bridge crossing the River Witham.
(In 1996 I bought an 8-months old Peugeot 306 XSi from Robins and Day.)
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I really don't know Lincoln too well. My memories are of going up the steep hill, fully loaded, praying that the lights would stay on green long enough for me to keep moving.
Starting an old F86 on a hill that steep wasn't easy:)
Pat
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Virtual pint to our resident gastropod. That quirky numbering system had been the despair of many a delivery driver!
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>> That quirky numbering system had been the despair of many a delivery driver!
Harley Street in London is numbered in the same fashion - up one side, down t'other.
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I do have a number on the front of my house, not that it can be seen from the road due to the housing being set back, and having a well grown hedge!
But, for people I want to find the place, I have a perfect locating device - its called a road sign, showing the roundabout just down the road, that divides my drive from nextdoor's!
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I deliver door to door, and lack of numbers and obscure house names hidden behind shrubbery are a real pain in the butt, particularly at night. Trying to find a particular house can add twenty minutes to my day, even when I am in the correct road.
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It is al legal requirement to display your house number.
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The mention of emergency services earlier is important, in fact our local police vehicles have a spot light in the door pillars to help illuminate house numbers at night when on emergency calls.
Incidentally, we have two streets close to us which are unusually numbered. The first road's house numbers are from 1 to around 55 or 57 when you come to a junction at a main road.
Going over the junction you enter a road with a different name, but the houses numbering carries on in the sequence from the first road...:-)
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>> It is al legal requirement to display your house number.
be interested to see that law, can you provide a link?
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>> >> It is al legal requirement to display your house number.>>
Might be being confused with business addresses or similar:
www.castleprint.co.uk/legal_requirements1.html
tinyurl.com/34gxgdg
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Here is the law on the subject - So you see Zero the council really does have the necessary powers to ensure house numbers are displayed.
The general statutory provisions on the numbering of houses in streets outside Greater London are contained in sections 64 and 65 of the Towns Improvements Clauses Act 1847e.
These provisions were made generally applicable to urban authorities by section 160 of the Public Health Act 1875 and to rural authorities by the Rural District Councils (Urban Powers) Orders 1931 and 1949. The general applicability of these provisions throughout England and Wales — except for Greater London — was secured by paragraphs 23 and 26 of schedule 14 to the Local Government Act 1972. The powers of the commissioners referred to in the 1874 Act are now vested in the district council.
Section 64 enables the district council to cause the houses and buildings in the streets in its area to be marked with such numbers as it thinks fit and makes it an offence for any person to destroy or deface any such number or to put up any number different from the number put up by the district council.
Section 65 places a duty on the occupiers of the houses and other buildings to mark their houses with such numbers as the district council approve of and to renew such numbers as often as they become obliterated or defaced. It is an offence for an occupier to fail, within a week of the notice of that purpose from the council, to mark his house with the number approved of, or to renew the number when obliterated. In addition, section 65 empowers the district council to cause the numbers to be marked or to be renewed as the case may require, and to recover the expense from the occupier.
In Greater London, the code on house numbering is contained in sections 11, 12 and 13 of the London Government Act 1939. These sections provide for a scheme that enables the Greater London council to order that buildings shall be marked by a number or a name for distinguishing them. The GLC's order is then transmitted to the appropriate London borough council and that council is required to give notice to the owner or occupier of every building to which the GLC's order relates. This notice requires the occupier or owner to put the appropriate mark on the building or on some part of the premises of which the building forms part. If the notice given by the borough council is not complied with, that local authority must cause the number or name to be marked on the building or premises in question.
Section 12 enables the GLC to make regulations with respect to the marking of buildings and in particular these regulations may provide for the number or name to be marked in some appropriate position either on the building or on some part of the premises of which the building forms part.
Section 13 makes it an offence for any person to put on a building a number different from that lawfully given to it, to put a mark except in accordance with the marking or number assigned. Sections 14 and 15 of the Act deal with the keeping of records by the council, with legal 1120 proceedings by the authority against any one who contravenes or fails to comply with the provisions of the Act and recovery of expenses. In addition, a few local authorities—Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Humberside, Kent, Merseyside, South Yorkshire and West Midlands —have taken out extra powers in local Acts. The main aim of these Acts has been to try to deal with the problem of emergency services failing to locate premises set back from roads.
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Blimey
anyone ever been prosecuted for this?
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Believe you me when you get a shout trying to find a house when there are no numbers is a real pain and can delay a response. Ok so you may be able to work it out from others in the road but on a dark wet night, alley light or not, you can't see them.
The worst are rural areas or those with long drives with the names and numbers 50 yards away.
And of course houses with names even visible at the roadside will not give any sequential indication of another address.
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>>anyone ever been prosecuted for this? >>
I'll lay a pound to a penny that this is either extremely rare or has never happened.
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>> >>anyone ever been prosecuted for this? >>
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>> I'll lay a pound to a penny that this is either extremely rare or has
>> never happened.
Could that be down to not knowing what house number to send the letter of prosecution to?
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>> Section 65 places a duty on the occupiers of the houses and other buildings to
>> mark their houses with such numbers as the district council approve of .............
>> In addition, section 65 empowers the district council to cause the numbers to
>> be marked or to be renewed as the case may require, and to recover the
>> expense from the occupier.
That confirms what we were instructed when our road was allocated house numbers.
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Do you have your house number displayed? - Stuu
