Fernside
Historic Jersey buildings
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Property name
Fernside
Other names
- La Gallichanerie
- Fernside Farm
- Fernside Cottage
Location
Rue du Moulin, St Saviour
Type of property
17-19th century Jersey farm group.
Fernside Farm operated as a guesthouse from 1966 to 1990. It was owned by Charles Le Couteur, a diving instructor, and run by his family. [1]
Valuations
1 Fernside Farm sold for £770,000 in 2012 La Gallichanerie sold for £777,362 in 2007
Families associated with the property
- Gallichan: It is not known which member gave the family name to this property
- Pelgue
- Pirouet: James Francis Pirouet (1902- ), his wife Eunice Ophelia, nee Le Moignan (1899- ) and their sons Gerald James (1926- ) and Gordon Philip (1927- ) lived here in 1941
Datestones
- 18 GPG ELT 11 - For George Pelgue and Elizabeth Le Tubelin
- 18 GPG ELT 18 - For George Pelgue and Elizabeth Le Tubelin
Historic Environment Record entry
Listed building
A good example of a traditional Jersey farm group retaining historic character and original features from various periods, 17th-19th century. Historic farm group, previously called La Gallichanerie.
The 1795 Richmond Map shows a C-plan building - part of which survives as Fernside Cottage. This is believed to be the original 17th century farmhouse, with the residential upper floor retaining granite fireplaces and A-frame roof trusses. Various remnants of earlier carved stones, including a fragment inscribed with '16', are incorporated into the walls of a former outbuilding, now 1 Fernside Farm.
The farm was expanded in the early 19th century - the former outbuilding with 1811 datestone, and the larger farmhouse. Refurbished and converted in 20th century.
Two-storey, five-bay 19th century farmhouse (La Gallichanerie) with a range of converted 19th century farm buildings adjoining to the east (The Dower House, Fern Cottage and Highbury House), with the earlier 17th century three-bay farmhouse (Fernside Cottage) and converted farm building (1 Fernside Farm) to the west.
There are pigsties and a single storey farm outbuilding detached to the rear.
Old Jersey Houses
- "A round arch dated 1824 is most unusual, as it is more than a century after the true vernacular arch had gone out of fashion, and rather before the later Victorian revival."
Notes and references
- ↑ Gillian Moore recalled family holidays there: "We used to stay at Fernside Farm, when it was owned by the Le Couteur family, and run as a guest house. We first met Charles Le Couteur, who was a diving instructor, in Bouley Bay, in 1982, when he showed us how to dive, with scuba gear. We stayed at Fernside Farm every year, from 1983 until 1990 , when they stopped the guest house business. I have painted the farm twice, for Charles and his sister, and also many other Jersey buildings and views, over the years."
