No 10 Queen Street
Historic Jersey buildings
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Property name
10 Queen Street
Location
Queen Street, St Helier
Type of property
19th century town house and shop
Valuations
No recent transactions
Families and businesses associated with the property
Hairdresser J Marsh and grocer Thomas Baker were at No 10 in 1833, followed by optician Peter Taroni, born in Italy in 1895, and living at No 10 with his Jersey-born wife Emilie. They were still there in 1861 and in 1871 a jewellery business was being run by his son Charles (1832- ), living with his wife Ann (1832- ), his widowed mother, and son Charles (1858- ) a watch maker.
In 1874 the premises were occupied by haberdashers Belford and Renouf. The 1881 census shows tobacconist James Francis Belford (1839- ) living there with his wife Elizabeth Marguerite, nee Renouf (1856- ). He was the son of James Belford and Harriet Lane and there was presumably some family connection between his wife and the haberdasher Renouf in 1874. Elizabeth was his second wife. He was previously married to Ann Mary Renouf. Elizabeth and Ann were not sisters. Ann Mary was the daughter of Philippe Renouf (1818- ) and Ann Delicia du Fresne (1820- ), of St Martin, and Elizabeth Marguerite was the daughter of of Nicolas and Anne Marie La Gerche, of St Helier.
James Belford was still trading at No 10 in 1886, 1890 and 1895. The next record to show the premises is a 1910 almanac which lists a Mrs Dupard. She was still there in 1920, followed in 1930 by A G Hooper, which became Maison Hooper by 1960. In 1970 a business called Beauty was trading at No 10, followed by H Samuel, which occupied Nos 10 and 12 in 2012.
Historic Environment Record entry
Listed building
Early-mid 19th century shop with integral accommodation on the upper floors (a distinctive arrangement for town commercial properties of this period). The building appears to retain fragments of an earlier structure.
John McCormack's Channel Island Houses notes likely 18th century origins, identifying very thick masonry at the rear wall, which finishes at first floor ceiling level. Shown on the Richmond Map of 1795.
Three-bay, three-storey with attic. Slate mansard roof set back behind raised parapet, with small dormer; rendered chimneystack with Fareham pots (with distinctive slipware bands). The frontage has a squat appearance with window lines considerably lower than the neighbouring properties, and the window openings smaller in scale. It is of group value and is an integral part of a row of 19th century shop properties along the south side of Queen Street. This row as a whole makes a distinctive and interesting townscape.
Notes and references
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M P Tarone advertised the move of his business to 10 Queen Street in 1833 -
1855 -
1870 advert in Chronique de Jersey -
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1886
