No 11 Gloucester Street

Historic Jersey buildings

11 Gloucester Street, St Helier

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Property name

11 Gloucester Street

Other names

Chelsea Hotel

Location

Gloucester Street, St Helier

Type of property

Merchant's house, later hotel, now demolished to make way for large modern development

Valuations

No recent transactions

Families and businesses associated with the property

Le Quesne: The original house was built by Nicolas Le Quesne and inherited by his son Charles, a merchant and shipowner, who was elected Jurat

Almanac listings

1874-1890: George Orange, merchant
1900-1905: J Bartlett. Mrs Blampied
1910-1915: W H Ford
1925: W J Curry
1930: Mrs Quenault, Chelsea House
1935-1990: Chelsea Hotel, Binnington from 1950

Census returns

1851: Charles Le Quesne, 39, Jurat, merchant and shipowner; Elizabeth Catherine, nee English, 38; Catherine Esther, 6, Isabel Edith, 5, Charles, 2; Esther Clement, 24, and JeannetteYot, 33, servants
1861: George Orange, 51, merchant, ship owner; Mary, nee Pirouet, 43; Edwin, 8, Clara, 11, James, 4, Francis, 4, Giffard,1; Mary Lippart, 28, cook
1871: Mary Orange, 52, widow, wine and spirit merchant; Clara, 21, Edwin, 18. Alice Snowden, 26, merchant's wife; Medeleine, 2, granddaughter; Esther Gallichan, 24, cook; Lucy Leass, 18, Nurse
1891: Edwin Orange, 38, wine merchant; Frances, 24; Elsie, 8, Doris, 5, Edwin, 4; Thomas Clark, 63, brother-in-law; Emma Clark, 44, sister; cook, housemaid and nurse

Historic Environment Record entry

Listed building

The Chelsea Hotel contained a late Georgian merchant’s house built by Nicolas Le Quesne. His son, Charles, is shown to be living at No 11 on the 1851 census. Charles Le Quesne was a Jurat, merchant ship owner and author of A Constitutional History of Jersey. The house had an unusual dressed granite façade of grand proportions. The interior retained well-proportioned rooms with wide doors, deep architraves and a fine spiral mahogany staircase.