No 7 David Place
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Property name
7 David Place
Other names
- United Services Club
- United Service Hotel
- Criterion Hotel
- Hotel Metropole.
Location
David Place, St Helier
Type of property
Georgian town terrace house, club and hotels, then medical surgeries, up to present day
Valuations
No recent transactions
Families and businesses associated with the property
Occupation registration
- Charles Rene Mauger (1891- ) was living here in 1941
Census returns
- 1851: Charles La Croix, 29, United Services Club steward; Jane, 24; Charles, 6; Jane Laffoley , 53, mother-in-law, cook
- 1891: United Services Hotel: George Mitchelmore, 48, hotel properetor; Harriet, 49; Rose, 24; Lily, 17; Bertie, 4
Almanac listings
- 1880: Criterion Hotel
- 1886: United Services Hotel, G H Mitchelmore; Capt H B Lowndes; O H Le Brun
- 1890: Halkett Lodge: G H Mitchelmore. Miss Noel
- 1895: Victoria Club
- 1905-1930: Dr P B Bentlif
- 1940: Dr G Bentlif. A C Halliwell
- 1950: Dr Bentlif. C H Avarne
- 1960: Dr P G Bentlif. E Herivel. C H B Avarne. Dr E Gruchy. J C Petty, Dr P Falla
- 1970: E Herivel, J W Barr, J C Petty, dentists. C Avarne, D Crill, H Falla, R Gruchy, doctors
- 1980: G F Langley-Smith. J W Barr, dentist. JJ C Petty, dentist. Dr Gleeson. Dr Cousins. Dr D Crill. Dr H P L Falla
- 1990: Dental and doctors' surgery
Historic Environment Record entry
Listed building
A substantial, well proportioned Georgian style house maintaining many original internal and external features. Early-mid 19th century house with possible earlier origins. Owner reports that when repairs undertaken to the front door in 2012, packing was found under one of the hinges comprising a newspaper dated 1780 or 1790.
Dr Philip Barnett Bentlif, surgeon to the Artillery Regiment of the Jersey Militia, set up his medical practice here. His son, Philip Graeme Bentliff, continued the medical practice until 1960. In 1959 he was the prison medical officer and was present at the last hanging in Jersey of Francis Joseph Huchet on 9 October 1959.
Probably originally detached property, set back. Five-bay, three-storey with basement. At the rear there is a ground floor extension on the south side and two-storey extension on the north side. Front elevation: Slate roof behind parapet, modern box dormers, rendered chimney. Stucco with rusticated quoins. Second floor windows are two-pane sashes, First floor and ground floor windows are two-pane sashes with horns, the central one opening onto a small balcony over the porch with iron railings and a flagpole. Stucco surrounds on windows and bracketed cills.
Three steps lead up to columned porch with Doric base but squared capitals. Door is four-panel, the top two glazed with side and overlights in stained glass. Boundary wall curves into entrance, stone with iron railings. Rear elevation: two dormers. two-storey extension in centre linked to staircase landings. Second floor windows are 12-pane sash windows. Two-storey extension to south has 12 pane windows. Single storey extension to north with consoles and cornice. Four-panel door to main house, the top two being glazed.
Symmetrical layout, two rooms deeps with central hallway and staircase. Staircase swan neck balustrade with turned balusters through to attic floor, where a fire partition has been built across it. Arch with meander pattern separates entrance hall from staircase, the same pattern being repeated on the ceiling moulding. Black and white tiled floor and plaster ceiling with leaf and spear cornice. Four-panel door with coloured glass in top two panels behind staircase. Ground and first floor rooms, shallow, panelled reveals to windows, but no fireplaces survive. Four-panel doors in ground and first floor rooms. Basement with original wide board match boarding and cellar partitions. Ground floor doctor's practice, residential flats on upper floors.
The site runs through to Apsley Road where there is a rare example of the associated coach house. Mid-late 19th century. It retains its original workmanship on the exterior. Two-storey, three-bay with vehicular access to south and central door. Front elevation: Slate roof. Rubble stone wall with brick facing to openings. Front door and loading bay door solid battened timber. Large gateway leading to backyard, shared car park with solid timber double doors. Timber six-pane window with concrete sill. Rear elevation: rendered wall, eightpane timber casement windows.
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