No 14 Bond Street

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Property name

14-15 Bond Street

Location

Bond Street, St Helier

Type of property

18th century town house, or warehouse building, significantly older than the other buildings in Bond Street. It appears to have become the Bond Hotel when C Bisson took over the building between 1890 and 1895. Previously A de Carteret ran the Birmingham Hotel at Nos 14 and 15

Valuations

No recent transactions

1946 drawing

Families associated with the property

• Marett: In 1941 Alfred Edwin Marett (1894- ) and his wife Murial Ida Barbara, nee Hassel (1894- ) were living here

Historic Environment Record entry

Listed building

An early town building circa 1720s-40s, with unusual marine lookout and important 18th century interior features.

Shown on the 1795 Richmond Map facing an open shoreline; possibly shown on the Meade Map of 1737.

Referred to in Historical Hotels and Inns of Jersey by Ahier and Ashworth, as a possible 'bonded warehouse'.

Three storeys plus attic, 6 bays. Slate roof with large rendered stone lateral end stacks on north and south. Principal frontage is random granite on ground floor, with lined ashlar effect render above.

No 14 has a large pitched roofed structure adjacent to a fine granite chimney stack, interpreted as a marine lookout. No 15 has a good Victorian shopfront - fascia with moulded cornice, pilaster on right, south panelled stall risers.

A picture taken between 1897 and 1900. Charles and Ada Bisson acquired No 14 in about 1892-95 and established the Bond Hotel. Previously Amice de Carteret had been shown in almanac street directories as running the Birmingham Hotel at Nos 14 and 15. He appears in several registers of licenced suppliers of alcohol from 1885 to 1889. The entries relate to No 14 Bond Street, and it is clear from census listings that the hotel only occupied No 14. These two properties appear to have been constructed as one six-bay frontage and in this picture the Bond Hotel occupies three bays on the left and then there is a shopfront on the three right bays. In the 21st century the Bond, still in business as a public house, occupies four bays and there is only a two-bay shopfront. There is what appears to be a barber's pole outside the shopfront and the 1891 census confirms that No 14½ was the premises of hairdresser James Webb, and that the shop at No 15 was Jules Anne's and his wife Maria's grocery. A 1895 almanac shows Charles Bisson at No 14, L P Maloret at 14½ and A de Carteret at 15. The following year's listing just shows C bisson at No 14 and R Enwright at No 15. This continues for several years, but it has not been possible to discover what business R Enwright was conducting here, or even if he was just occupying residential accommodation above a shop. The 1901 census offers no guidance because the only Enwright family living in St Helier was that of Richard and Emma Enwright, in Colomberie. Richard was a gardener and his wife a greengrocer, working from their home