Andover Lodge
Historic Jersey buildings
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Property name
Andover Lodge
Previous names
None known
Location
Petite Rue de L'Eglise, St Peter. [1]
Type of property
18th century house with round arch and chamfered windows indicating a much earlier date.
Families associated with the property
- Janvrin: This was the St Peter home of the Janvrin family, who also owned property in St Brelade, principally at Le Coin. In 1810, Daniel Valpy dit Janvrin, who was engaged in Jersey`s cod fisheries and living in Arichat, sold the house and outbuildings to Abraham de Gruchy.
- de Gruchy: One of Jersey's best-known shops started its life at Andover Lodge, to give it its 20th century name. As a young man, Abraham de Gruchy went to sea on one of his family's merchant ships but returned to Jersey in the early 1800s to work nearby at The Yews for wine merchant and grocer Jean Le Brocq, whose niece he married in 1808. He founded his own business in 1810, as a general merchant, specialising in drapery and haberdashery items, which were sold from a store he built in the east extension to Andover Lodge, which is that part of the building now painted white, beyond the above picture, on the right. Wines, spirits, flour, cheeses, saplings and even sheep were sold in the property`s farm outbuildings, which have now been converted and also painted white, their facade being just visible in the above picture, on the left. Behind and to the west of the one-time farm lay its fields, which were sold by Daniel Janvrin separately from the farm and outbuildings. These were built upon in the 20th century.
In 1818, he purchased a triangular plot of land containing an orchard, le Jardin de Seale, from his brother-in-law Matthieu Horton of La Fosse, and built the property that is now St Peter`s Country Inn, into which he moved his business. Andover Lodge and its outbuildings were sold on 12th December that year to his wife`s uncle, retired farmer and Vingtenier, Nicolas Le Brocq.
- Le Brocq: Nicolas Le Brocq lived here from 1819 to 1846, before moving to Beaumont. He sold the property on the 12th December 1846 to Edouard Le Grand, son of Simon.
- Le Grand: Mr E. Le Grand, the above mentioned Edouard Le Grand, was living here at the date of Godfray`s Map of Jersey (1849).
- Queree: Philip Donald Queree and his wife, Annie Margaret Le Gresley, were the owners in 1938 and afterwards.
Datestones
- Door lintel inscribed DIV 1743 for ship owner Daniel Valpy dit Janvrin
- Central inscription PDQ 1938 AMLG, for Philip Donald Queree (1917-2003) and his wife Annie Margaret (1918-1992), nee Le Gresley, who married on 31 December 1938. Annie was the daughter of Philip (1871-1943) and Alice Ann, nee Rive. They were living at Andover Lodge during the German Occupation.
Historic Environment Record entry
Listed building
The 18th century house and wing retain exterior interest. The grouping and fabric of the houses contribute to the contextual setting of the nearby group of village houses. This building is shown on the Richmond Map of 1795. It is considered to date from the early 18th century. To the south-west a range of converted outbuildings run south.
Old Jersey Houses
Not included
Notes and references
- ↑ Opposite the parish church
