Zero house number

Just been copying some family info from an 1871 census sheet and saw their
address was "0, Beauchamp Row". Thought it was a mistake but their details
continued on the next sheet where it was repeated. Also the next house was
number 1, then 2, 3, etc.

How unusual is that I wonder.

Charles Ellson...

It was possibly squeezed in at the end of the road after the other
houses. The usual method is to append a letter to subsidiary addresses
but another cunning wheeze is to add fractions (e.g. Hampstead Police
Station - 26 1/2 Rosslyn Hill). The only other use of zeroes that

C Rihan...

I suppose that it could happen anywhere a house was squeezed in, and not
yet numbered, or perhaps where the house had a name but not a number.

Best wishes
C.Rihan

comes to mind is that of registrations of various provosts' cars in
Scotland where the number 1 registration had already been issued long
ago so the council Rolls-Royce (or poorr version) ended up registered
as 0 (e.g. Glasgow - G0, Edinburgh - S0), with the same
being done with the Lord Mayor of London's car (LM0).

Graham P Davis...

Yes, the house I was born in was numbered 115a. There had been a gap left
between 99 and 117 for 8 houses but they found they could squeeze ten
semi-detached council houses in, so the numbers ran 99a, 101, . . . , 113,
115, 115a. That was in 1936. Nowadays they'd fit twenty or more on the same
site.