Street Numbers

[PaulThommo]

Oh dear what have I started Paul

[PaulThommo]

The confusion continues. My neighbour and I have an address but we face onto another road, only our driveways and garages are in the correct road. It causes no end of confusion even to the Royal Mail. If I get any misposted mail, it goes straight in the bin.

Not a nice thing to do.

Some places have odd and even numbers on opposite sides of the street, others just have the house's numbered consecutively.

Hi Youngtug, thanks for your reply, just to take it one step further, if there were a row of 20 houses on each side of the road and they were numbered consecutively, one row would be 1-20 would the other side be numbered 21-40 and if so which end would 21 start, opposite No. 1 or opposite No.20?

[ShaunJ]

Hi Youngtug, thanks for your reply, just to take it one step further, if there were a row of 20 houses on each side of the road and they were numbered consecutively, one row would be 1-20 would the other side be numbered 21-40 and if so which end would 21 start, opposite No. 1 or opposite No.20?

In a street that is consecutively numbered the norm would be clockwise - down one side and back up the other (Winchester High Street springs to mind as an example). What numbers were opposite each other would depend on any variances in the width of the properties, and space taken up by side roads.

It does appear though that Princes Street was numbered in odds and evens.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_numbering

[rosie99]

Examples of street numbering not evens one side odds the other occur near to where I live, these are early 1900's terraces of 6. 
They go 1-30 on one side then 30 is opposite no 31.  The other side 31-60 with number 60 being opposite number 1.  In this case they are anti clockwise

[ShaunJ]

The 1911 census has 2 of my ancestors living at 25 & 27 Eglesfield Rd. The houses are still there, I have been there and taken a photograph and are in the odds & evens numbers on their respective sides.
So were they numbered one after the other on the same side of the street or was the enumerator going backwards and forwards across the street?

I am not with you on this question. 25 and 27 are on the same side. Indeed they appear to be flats - one upstairs, one downstairs in the same building.  https://goo.gl/sdhR7n

[stanmapstone]

In 1871 the house numbers are consecutively  9-10-11-12-13-14-15-17-18-19
RG10 Piece 5033 Folio 16 Page 25
The enumerator entered them in the order of Number of the Schedule, which is the order in which he delivered them. The enumerator had a "Memorandum Book" in which he noted the address at which schedule was left.
Stan

[ShaunJ]

So presumably renumbered by 1881 ?

[stanmapstone]

The original post was for the 1871 census, I did not see 1881 mentioned.

Stan

[ShaunJ]

The 1881 and 1891 censuses for Princes Street list odds and evens separately