La Solitude
Historic Jersey buildings
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Property name
La Solitude
Location
La Sceletterie, St Lawrence
Type of property
18th century farm
Valuations
On the market in 2025 for £3,750,000
Families associated with the property
- Le Normand: In 1941 Eugene Le Normand, born in France, was a prisoner of war in Germany. His wife applied for him to be returned to Jersey so that he could run the tenanted family farm. The request was denied. His wife was living on the proceeds of the farm and £2 7s a month from the States.
- In 1941 Edward Alexander Cotillard (1917- ); Elie Louis Rault (1903- ), his wife Marie Jeanne, nee Le Cardinal (1903- ) and their daughter Doreen Mary (1927- ) were registered as living here
Marie Jeanne Rault, née Le Cardinal, of La Solitude, Carrefour Selous, St Lawrence, born 23/11/1903
Historic Environment Record entry
Listed building
18th century Jersey farmhouse and associated farm buildings retaining original historic and internal features of historic significance and integrity as a farm group. Circa 1750, although gable stones and uprights suggest earlier date. Shown on the Richmond Map of 1795.
Five-bay, two-storey house with barn on east side. House: Front elevation: Slate roof. Stone chimneys. Three box dormers. Randomly coursed granite, dressed stone quoins and quoined window surrounds. Three first-floor windows on the west side have short uprights. Quoined door surround with uprights at base, stone lintel. Rear elevation: Outshot on to road. Slate roof with dormer. Random rubble with quoined door and window surrounds, the one on the west side with uprights. Door now blocked in. Possible tourelle Barn: Front elevation: Pitched slate roof. Random rubble, pierre perdu render on ground floor. Brick surrounds of first floor openings and brick quoins indicating heightening of roof, also evident on the gable end. Several openings blocked, others boarded up. Side elevation: Gable end. Brick parapet copings on north side. Random rubble, dressed stone quoins, brick at first floor. Line of extension visible. Several openings have been blocked up. Rear elevation: Corrugated metal roof. Rendered and stone gable copings with gable stones at both ends. Random rubble with dressed stone quoins and quoined door and window surrounds. Door blocked in.
Two rooms wide, single pile with central passage and outshot at rear. Ground floor east room has a granite fireplace with a single corbel surviving and timber lintel. The fireplace on the west side has been blocked in. Granite fireplace in east gable end wall of outshot, with corbels and stone lintel. New staircase, some matchboard panelling and door. Chamfered beams and six panel doors in barn.
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