Broughton Lodge Farm
Historic Jersey buildings
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Property name
Broughton Lodge Farm
Other names
Broughton Lodge
Location
La Verte Rue, St Mary. The property was largely derelict in 2010 and has since been refurbished and split into separate residential units, after a long dispute between the owner and the Planning Department. In the early 21st century a housing estate was built on land surrounding the original farmstead
Type of property
18th century farmhouse
Valuations
- 1 Broughton Lodge Farm sold for £420,000 in 2013
- 3 Broughton Lodge Farm sold for £500,000 in 2012 and £625,000 in 2017.
Families associated with the property
- Barette: The owner Ivor Barette was involved in the planning dispute
- Le Brocq: The St Mary Le Brocqs gave this property its name. The late Philip Le Couteur, formerly Greffier of the Royal Court, was a kinsman of theirs. He told the writer of this note that "Captain Le Brocq visited the village of Broughton, married the daughter of the clergyman and named his property in St Mary Broughton Lodge. He was later the tenant of St John`s Manor, that of La Hougue Boëte". John and Philippe Le Brocq ran the farm between the two world wars
- Egre: The Egre family were living here in 1941 and into the 1950s - William Wilford (1885- ), his wife Harriet Elizabeth, nee Syvret (1886- ) and their children Gladys Harriet (1914- ), Hedley Edward (1916- ), Doreen Enid (1919- ) and Enid Mary (1924- ).
Historic Environment Record entry
Listed building
Good example of 18th century farmhouse with later dower wing, with unusual floor plan, and courtyard of early 19th century outbuildings.[1]
The house emulates the polite architecture of Georgian fashion but with a continuing local character. Shown on the Richmond Map of 1795.
The five-bay, two-storey house is constructed in granite. There is a slate roof with a pair of dressed granite chimney stacks and three early dormers with 12-pane sashes. The front door is of an early 19th century six-panel pattern, and a later Victorian Gothic gabled porch.
The original floor plan is unusual for its rear, gabled staircase wing extension, as houses of this period usually contain the staircase within the rectangular plan form. This is of particular interest as it shows the transition from the rectangular plan common throughout the 18th century to the deeper more spacious plans which evolved in the 19th century.
The interior of the house in 2004 retained its original layout and many early fittings including a very fine mahogany staircase.
The 1930s kitchen extension attached to the north-west corner of the house is of no interest. Integral to the site is a collection of early 19th century farm outbuildings forming a courtyard to the north of the house.
Notes and references
- ↑ This description of the property appears to predate its division into a number of separate residential units. The property had the appearance of being derelict in 2010
