Boulevard Apartments
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Property name
Boulevard Apartments
Location
Bulwarks, St Aubin, St Brelade
Other names
- Ambleve - The original name of the property is not mentioned in the HER entry, but is shown in the Jersey Datestone Register
- Maison du Boulevard - Or was this the original name, shown in a 1824 advert?
Type of property
Merchant's house now divided into apartments
Valuations
Individual apartments in the building have sold for £250,000 and £350,000 in 2007 and £385,000 in 2009
Families associated with the property
- Reeves
- Chaperon: Shown as occupants in 1941
Datestones
- 1686 ILC on corbel stone [1]
- IM♥IB1704
Historic Environment Record entry
Listed building
Important 18th century merchant's house, dated 1704, retaining exterior character. Prominent location overlooking St Aubin's Harbour. Important as part of terrace of similar merchants houses set back along Le Boulevard. Shown on the Richmond Map of 1795. A mahogany open-well staircase survives, but otherwise there are few original features. Reputed to have cellar to left, southeast of front door.
Old Jersey Houses
Despite the age and importance of the property, it does not feature in either volume of the work.

In 1964 Ambleve was a guesthouse run by the Reeves family
Notes and references
- ↑ Neither of these stones is contained in the 903 listed in Old Jersey Houses and only the 1704 stone is included in the Jersey Datestone Register, with no explanation of its meaning



