Fauvic Farm
Historic Jersey buildings
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Property name
Fauvic Farm
Other names
1-5 Fauvic Farm
Location
Rue de Fauvic, Grouville
Type of property
19th century farm group, run as a guest house in the 1950-60s and now divided into five residential units
Valuations
- No 1 (the farmhouse) was sold for £975,000 in 2014
- No 2 was sold for £712,500 in 2013
- No 3 was sold for £800,000 in 2015, £1,075,000 in 2019 and £1,255,000 in 2021
- No 4 was sold for £865,000 in 2016
- No 5 was sold for £900,000 in 2014
Families associated with the property
- Bree: In the 1901 census Jane Bree, nee Touzel (1855- ) widow of John Elie, was shown as head of household, living on her own means. Her son Touzel Bree (1881- ) was farming and also in the household were his siblings Evelyn (1880- ), Lilian (1883- ), Ernest (1886- ), Irene (1888- ), Cyril (1890- ) and Reginald (1891- )
In 1941 Harold Touzel Bree (1905- ), his wife Lilian May, nee Guillard (1899- ) and their children Roy Harold (1928- ) and Joan Elizabeth were living here. Harold's father, who owned Fauvic Farm before him, was Touzel John Bree, son of John Elias Bree, and married to Louise Mabel, nee Le Couillard, daughter of Philip Elias
Datestones
- IDM ♥ IPR 1821 - For Jean Dumaresq and Jeanne Pirouet, both of Grouville, who were married in St Clement on 8 September 1800
- CDV 1860 - For Charles de Veulle, on outbuilding
Historic Environment Record entry
Listed building
Early 19th century farm group which mass attractively along the roadside and retain exterior historic character. Former farmstead - now converted to residential - forming a group along the roadside. The principal farmhouse is two-storey, five-bay.
Former farm outbuildings of historical and group value adjoin to the east, comprising a two-storey building with rubble granite walls, dressed granite quoins and brick dressings, a former (blocked) throughway into the farmyard, on the opposite side of which is a lower granite building with stone dressings. On the roadside in front of these outbuildings are later rubble granite lean-to extensions with brick and stone dressings.
