Valley House
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Property name
Valley House
Other names
Valley Farm
Location
Vau Bourel, St Mary [1]
Type of property
18th century country house
Valuations
No recent transactions
Families associated with the property
- Dore
- Paton: In 1941 journalist Thomas Lyall Paton (1868- ) and his wife Janet, née Gibb (1868- ) of the Scottish Gibb engineering family, were living here. The Patons had moved to Jersey in the early 1900s with their children, Angus and Fenella, and Janet purchased Valley House in 1932. Fenella married the Rector of St John, and Angus became a partner at his uncle’s civil engineering firm. Angus, later knighted, was renowned for hydroelectric projects, notably the Kariba Dam between Zambia and Zimbabwe, the largest of its kind when completed in 1960. Having inherited Valley House from his mother in 1959, Sir Angus sold it in 1984, gifting a significant parcel of land to the National Trust in 1995, now Le Don Paton.
Datestones
- 18 EDR ♥ MLG 35 - For Elias Doré of St Peter Port, Guernsey, and Mary La Gerche of St Mary, who married in St Helier in 1832
Historic Environment Record entry
Listed building
This house has fine stonework on the southeast elevation and contributes to the view from the road. It emulates the polite architecture of Georgian fashion but with a continuing local character. Shown on the Richmond Map of 1795.
Later extension incorporates a datestone.
Two-storey, four-bay house with late 20th century single-storey wing to south west, late 19th century wing to north east.
Notes and references
- ↑ Shown as Le Mourier in Datestone Register, and also shown as Rue d'Enfer by Jersey Heritage
