La Chaumiere, St L
Historic Jersey buildings
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Property name
La Chaumiere [1]
Other names
- The Cloisters
- The Chapel
- The Lodge
- Les Hiboux
Location
Rue de Haut, St Lawrence
Type of property
Early 19th century Jersey house, sub-divided into four units but pre-dating the Victorian era by at least two decades [2]
Valuations
- La Chaumiere sold for £405,000 in 2002
- The Cloisters sold for £1,434,000 in 2016
Families associated with the property
- Dumaresq: See Old Jersey Houses below
- Nicholson: In 1851 John Nicholson (1786- ), a retired Army Captain on half pay, was living here with his daughters Ellen, Maria and Clara and two servants
- Le Montais: Old Jersey Houses identifies an inventory of the effects of Clement Le Montais, son of Clement, with this house
- Mauger: The 1861 census shows widowed general merchant Charles Mauger (1817-1891) living here with his son Oliver and governess Mary Ann Samson. Ten years later Charles and Oliver had been joined by Charles' sister-in-law Mary Le Couteur. The three were still living here in 1881 and Charles had taken up farming, in addition to being a merchant. Oliver had left home by 1891 and Charles was living with Mary and two servants. Charles, at the age of 73, was now a farmer, merchant and owner of a steam sawmill
- Le Rossignol: The 1901 census shows that the property had been acquired by merchant Alfred Philip Le Rossignol (1851- ), who was living there with his wife Mary Ann, nee Nicolle, sons Harold and Arthur, and three servants. The family was still there in 1911. Alfred was described as a general merchant (forage coal and potato lime) and farmer. Arthur was now in business as a fruit grower. Harold had left home but Alfred and Mary Ann's daughter Lillie appears in the household's census listing [3]
Datestones
- PCRD 1671 - an inscription on an apple crusher brought here from a St Martin house
- 1941 - there is a datestone with no initials at roof level which suggests that some of the work, perhaps the crenellations, may not be original
Historic Environment Record entry
Listed building
Circa 1800 house which retains its external historic character with original features. Designed in a style which was innovative for Jersey at the time.
A small building to the west (since demolished) was known as The Chapel and dated 1895. The exact date for The Cloisters is not known, and it may have been remodelled - the roof and style of chimneystack suggesting the later 19th century.
Front elevation: Low pitched slate roof, battlements to parapet. Two-storey, 3½-bay. Half of the bay window belongs to the adjacent building, The Lodge. [4]
First floor: French windows with rounded arch heads, timber frames. Tall semi-circular blind recesses between French windows. Iron balusters on balcony. Ground floor: Octagonal bay window. At east end, new extension.
The whole property is set back from road with a long entrance way and a large garden. There is an apple crusher that was originally at Les Grande Rues, St Martin
An eclectic design in Victorian Gothic style. Asymmetrical plan form with variety of conical, pyramidal and hipped wings, mostly with church tiled roofs with cresting and finials; brick chimneystacks; dormers with hipped roofs and finials.
Adjoining to the west is a crenelated wing with arched windows.
Old Jersey Houses
There is here a strong resemblance to Clare House, in Kent, built in 1797, and its builder was making quite an innovation in the Jersey pattern of architecture. It is almost certainly the 'Chaumiere at Millbrook' mentioned in the Le Couteur diaries in 1816, where Thomas Dumaresq (1783-1825) lived, and which his widow Sophia Lovelace sold. [5]
A building to the west, referred to somewhat incongruously as The Chapel, is dated 1895 and has a little cupola with a bell.
Notes and references
- ↑ Although the HER listing has a heading mentioning two properties, which suggests that they are semi-detached houses, the details of the listing refer to The Cloisters and the Lodge, stating that they share a bay window. The two properties have separate drives from Rue de Haut. The picture above we believe to be The Lodge, and that in the box, The Cloisters. The properties share a single roadside entrance but the drive then splits into two, leading to Les Hiboux and The Cloisters to the left and The Lodge and La Chaumiere to the right. All the indications are that this was built as a single house, called La Chaumiere, from at least the mid-19th century, and that it has since been divided and added to
- ↑ It was described by HER as Victorian Gothic style. A comparison of this property with another owned by the above mentioned Mauger family, namely La Retraite, is of interest. They were, perhaps, the work of the same builder. An early Victorian date would seem far more realistic than that suggested above
- ↑ Alfred Philip was later a Jurat, from 1917, and also Deputy of St Lawrence. He and Mary Ann had a total of ten children
- ↑ It is not clear from the entry where La Chaumiere sits in the property. This was the only name given for the property in Old Jersey Houses, but, apart from the heading, it is not used by HER. 21st century almanac listings show Les Hiboux, The Cloisters, The Lodge and La Chaumiere as four separate entities running from west to east (left to right as photographed)
- ↑ Thomas was the son of Sir Jean Dumaresq, Lieut-Bailiff and Magot Party leader. His sister Marie was married to Lieut-General Jean Le Couteur, who wrote the diaries. Thomas was Deputy-Assistant-Commissary-General
