La Planque
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Property name
La Planque
Other names
- La Planque Farm
- La Planque Farm Country Cottages (holiday rentals)
Location
Verte Rue, Trinity
Type of property
19th century farm
Valuations
Sold for £1,887,500 in 2013 and £2,760,000 in 2020, after being marketed for £2.95 million
Families associated with the property
- Cabot
- Gruchy: Philippe Gruchy (1783-1856) owned the property in the early 19th century, living and farming there with his wife, Anne de Gruchy. The land was described in the 1851 census as comprising about 25 vergees. The household consisted of Philippe, his wife Anne, and their 13 year-old grandson Charles, wrongly recorded as being their son. The couple`s daughter Anne, married Charles Gruchy of La Ruette, in Victoria Village and their son, Philippe junior, was the owner of La Planque at the time of the 1858 Trinity Rate List but, being childless, seems to have eventually sold it. There was, in the early 1990s, lying on the rafters of the farm outhouse behind the main house, a ship`s mast. It will have been the mainmast of a cutter or topmast of a larger vessel, such as a brig or barque. Philippe junior had been a ship`s carpenter and his brother Charles a shipwright, which probably accounts for the presence of the mast, for which they evidently never found a use.
- Mourant: In 1901 John Gregory Mourant (1850- ) and his wife Emelie, nee Le Masurier (1852- ) were living here with their son John Charles George (1876- ) and daughter Melia (1889- ) [1]
- Jones: The farm was in the Martret family for 200 ?? years, [2] passing by marriage to Jones before it was sold in the late 20th century. Annie Marie Jones, nee Martret, and her twin sister Mary owned the property. Annie Marie lived there with her children Margaret, Bill, Percy, Donald and Heather. The house had no plumbing until the 1990s. Originally a dairy farm, it progressed to potatoes, tomatoes and flowers shipped to France. Mr Jones kept bees and made mead. During the Occupation there was a German camp adjacent and Russian prisoners used to go to the farm for a meal on Sundays. At the age of four or five, Margaret used to be sent to fetch milk from the neighbouring farm, in a jug hidden in a basket.
Datestones
- TCB ♥ RCB 1764 - For Thomas and Rachel Cabot [3]
Historic Environment Record entry
Listed building
An early-mid 19th century [4] Jersey farm group retaining some original features and character. Consisting of main house with dower wing to the east, farm buildings to the west. L shaped stables form yard at the rear of the property.
Old Jersey Houses
Notes and references
- ↑ We have not been able to place this family in any of our Mourant trees
- ↑ This is unlikely as Philippe Gruchy and his son were both `fonciers,` not occupiers; the Martrets` ownership may perhaps have been a mistyping of 20 years
- ↑ Although we have found the record of the couple's marriage in Trinity in 1742, and the Trinity baptisms of their children Jean (1743- ), Pierre (1746- ), Rachel (1748- ) and Charles (1750), we have not been able to place them in any of our Cabot family trees. We believe that Thomas was born in 1717, the son of Philippe
- ↑ No, this is, in fact, a typical 18th century Jersey farmhouse. Furthermore, pictures of the interior show chamfered fireplace stonework with ornate corbels, which indicate at least a 17th century origin, if not earlier
