Beau Coin
Jersey houses:
Beau Coin, St Brelade
This property, above La Haule, is described as an unusual example of a 19th century rural villa, adapted to Jersey
Property name
Beau Coin
Previous names
Belveder
Location
Mont aux Roux, St Brelade
Type of property
An unusual example of a circa 1900 rural villa, in a style that is very specifically adapted in Jersey.
Valuations
On the market in the 2020s for £3,250,000
Families associated with the property
- Seale: This Jersey family alomost certainly built the house on their extensive land in this area in about 1860. They seem to have always let it to others, preferring to live nearby, opposite Grey Gables.
- de Gruchy: William Laurence de Gruchy, the future Jurat, lived here with his English-born wife from 1870 to 1873. He afterwards bought Roche Bois (q.v.), above St Aubin.
- Bridger: In 1901 the house was occupied by the Bridger family from England - widow Eliza (1818- ), and her unmarried daughters Frances (1846- ), Mary (1851- ) and Edith (1862- ). They had four servants
- Cochrane. From the 1960s the house was owned and occupied by Ian Douglas Leonard Cochrane,14th Earl of Dundonald (1918-1986), a major in the Black Watch.
Historic Environment Record entry
Listed building
Asymmetric two-storey house with attic, irregular bays. Variously pitched slate roofs with tall rendered chimneystacks. South elevation has double gabled frontage with decorative bargeboards, dormers to the side, snecked granite with dressed granite quoins and quoined window surrounds, rusticated lintels. Half round attic windows. Large conservatory. Raised garden terrace, with balustrade, to east and on roadside to south.
