House name? What if I don't have one?

I am not sure where to put this...so sorry if it's in the wrong place.

I am trying to sign up with a general practitioner and I found that I can sign up online. I've got anxiety and so, while it may be a bit whimpy, I've opted to sign up online rather than walk in.

Anyway, it's asking for my house number. Okay, no problem. But then, it asks for my house name. I thought, "What on earth is that?" I've never heard of such a thing. So I Googled it and learned that some houses have names. Mine doesn't, though. It's an apartment found in the same building as a T-Shirt shop. The problem is that it is required to write something in on this online application. What should I be doing, since my apartment doesn't have a name? Just a number?

Usually you only have to put a number or a name. If it won't let you go through with just a number, just put n/a.

Hardly any houses have names these days, so not many people will have a house name to put in the box - it's usually buildings like cottages, country homes, or maybe apartment or housing complexes, that have names (like 'Rose Cottage', or 'The Pines', or 'Woodlands House').

If you don't have a house name and it won't let you leave it blank, you could just try putting N/A instead.

Hah! Of course! Duh...why didn't I think of just putting N/A? It worked fine. Thanks guys. Sometimes I'm just not all there, haha. Don't know what's wrong with me. 

They usually have house name or number - odd to have both.  I agreed put n/a in the space. 

Our village has only house names as do several villages round here - don't know if that's a rural thing or a regional thing?

Yeah I think it's definitely a rural thing. The village I lived in in Scotland before  I moved back to the US was all named houses (we also had a number, which is what I used because our house name was in Gaelic and I could never remember how to spell it!  ) The only houses I saw in/around Glasgow that had names were the big old Victorian sandstone mansions.

My relative (in North London) lives in a flat in a house with a name and a street number. So her address is Flat X, Fancy House Name, XXX Street, London. I think the street number could probably be left off, but technically the address includes it.

My relative (in North London) lives in a flat in a house with a name and a street number. So her address is Flat X, Fancy House Name, XXX Street, London. I think the street number could probably be left off, but technically the address includes it.

Our block of flats is like that "24 "Pretend Posh Name of flats" XYZ Road, Manchester". My friends live in a tiny little cottage in Cheshire that goes by its name and not a number, though. 

Yeah, my in-laws have both a house name, or alternatively, a number. I think the house name came first and then the postal service gave everyone numbers. They tend to just use the name in their address, however, because I think it's what they were used to doing. Not like the post has much chance of going missing - there is only one street in their village, called...wait for it...The Street. So their address is <House Name>, The Street, <Town, Postcode etc> - I thought it looked so funny, their address, when I first read it. Lol! 

Our house has two house number addresses  One is the street address and the other is the number within the terrace. I usually put both as the post is delivered round the back where only terrace numbers are displayed. (And the postman still manages to deliver to the wrong houses!)

For future reference, you don't need to put N/A, just leave it blank.  As others have said, most houses don't have names, so you aren't expected to put something there unless you do have one, and if it's a computer generated thing, I could see the n/a showing up in the text of your address somewhere unintentionally. I leave these blank all the time and have never had any trouble.

The OP seemed to be implying that the form wasn't letting them continue without putting something in that field.

I want to call my flat something fun.  I'm gonna call it PhatBeetle Manor.  There.  

Now to get onto the council and postal service to fix it....

We've named our house. The post office won't recognize it, but it made us smile. We gave ours a Welsh name. It's our tongue-in-cheek tribute to our second home. We met and first fell in love in Idaho, so we named our house "Ty Tatws" in honour of where I came from.
 
Any Welsh speakers? Chary, do you speak Welsh?


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Any Welsh speakers? Chary, do you speak Welsh?

No. I'm from Southwest Pembrokeshire - we're virtually English.