Yes it does. At least in New England English.
Other than a cabin in the countryside or something, where would it be legal to provide housing without access to utilities? I mean, seems like you would have little cause to say it.
In the 1900 book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the Wizard introduces himself with “I am Oz, the great and terrible!”; 39 years later, the line was changed to “I am Oz, the great and powerful!” in the movie The Wizard of Oz. That seems to indicate that the meaning of the word changed during the first half of the 20th century.
I had a teacher in Pakistan in the late 1970s early 1980s who had as a pet peeve the changed meanings of “terrible”, “terrific”, “awful” and “fantastic”
He would have been born around 1910. Though in Pakistan before the dominance of global media, English was very, very, much trapped in the pre-independence (1947) if not Victorian/Edwardian times.
ISTR, fairly recently, seeing stories in which a British mailing address was identified in the manner of “Bletchly Hall, West Dumfries”. It was a bit disconcerting to me, as every mailing address in the US, that I know of, starts with a number. You probably could get a letter delivered to “The White House, Washington, DC”, but it still has an official address that begins with a number.
There is a short story (I think) by Chesterton wherein a character, an “arboreal house agent” resides at “The Elms, Buxton Common, near Purley, Surrey”
There is no house whimsically named “The Elms”. There is a tree house in the elms.
My best friend in primary school lived in a house in Karachi which could be described as:
[prominent family name] Palace
Neighborhood [with over 100,000 residents]
Karachi East
He was part of that family (or rather closely related to the head of a very large global ethno-religious group).
My father was a salaried professional. I had no idea about the gulf in our socioeconomic status until I was in secondary school. His father then built a squash court on their property, because my friend wanted to take up the game.
ETA: I see from googling that the property is now show with number, street and postal code. Also seems to have gone from a residence with a small office building on the “grounds” to a huge office complex with a residence attached.
You will see a Such-And-Such Hall address [no street] on some university campuses, but there are typically a lot of offices in there so you often still get a room number or P.O. box number or something in there, though I presume if you leave it off they still know where the Department of History or the Department of Structural Engineering is.
Don’t try that with Peach Tree, Atlanta, Georgia. Scroll down to Nomenclature for a partial list.
OTOH, in 2000-2002 I worked on Broadway and 20th St. in Manhattan. Every now and then, when telling people our address, someone from out of town would ask, “So, is that XXX Broadway Street, or Broadway Avenue…?” at which point I’d say, “No, it’s just Broadway.”
It doesn’t come up all that much. Houses without those services are pretty rare exceptions, and are usually that way for a reason, such as being explicitly run ‘off grid’
I’m going to disagree slightly with the other posters replying to this. Although it’s unlikely for a UK property to not have mains electricity and water (unless specifically designed that way), there are still plenty of properties without mains gas (where heating is generally provided by electricity 
or by having an oil tank on the property). In this case I think it would be quite normal to say you’re not on the (gas) mains. 
OB
It wasn’t uncommon on Mock The Week. Although I only ever saw that on YouTube, so maybe it got edited out for broadcast.
It still happens. In the UK, in smaller towns, houses have names. The Bentley family might or might not live there anymore, but the postal service knows where Bentley House is, and will deliver there without need of a number, or even a street. The government even issues drivers licenses with the address as Housename, Townname, Postcode.
Broad Way. It’s already there in the name.
I just posted a citation elsewhere: a US document which used the word “incline” where I would have said “increase”.
In recent years, there has been a noticeable incline in the use and abuse of loperamide…
Thinking about it, I have seen this done before, and I think that was also in a US publication. (I’m not sure of the nationality of the authors in this case).
Is this a common use of “incline” in the US or am I reading too much into it?
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Those words are not synonymous, though. An increase means the value of something went up. An incline— a tendency— seems to hint that the derivative went up, or is otherwise large.
It’s definitely weird to me, either someone is abusing the thesaurus or it’s some phamacology-related terminology you won’t see elsewhere.
Psst: loperamide is an opiate, they’re abusing it by eating literal handfuls and now we have to buy tiny quantities at a time.
I didn’t know it is an opiate. I know it as a stopping-up pill for diarrhoea, and those who are eating handfuls must be creating their own punishment, shall we say.
As for that particular misuse of ‘incline’, I’d have guessed they meant not ‘increase’ but ‘decline’.
Yeah, that was what I was posting over in Tell Us An Interesting Random Fact….
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Ships need to be especially careful if they hear voices in the night yell “Schooner, ahoy!” or encounter people in rowboats covered in green fungus.