Woodlands Farm

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These pictures of the property and its owners were taken by Tynan Brothers. The house was wrongly identified when the pictures were sent to us as Woodlands, St Helier, but it is undoubtedly Woodlands Farm, the Le Quesne family property in Rue Jacques, Trinity. We suspect that the date was wrong, too, and that the photographs were taken in the first decade of the 20th century, and show Edward Gallais Le Quesne (1865- ), his wife Elizabeth Ricard, nee Le Montais, and their daughter Mildred, born in 1898. It was not long afterwards that financial difficulties forced the sale of Woodlands and the Le Quesnes left for the USA

Property name

Woodlands Farm

Location

Rue Jacques, Trinity

Type of property

19th century farm, including a 1676 datestone indicating a much earlier property on the site. The house was extensively rebuilt with imposing pillars making the front porch, and it is rumoured that the family ran out of money and had to sell the house. Edward Gallais Le Quesne emigrated to Canada

Valuations

No recent transactions

Families associated with the property

• Le Quesne: Walter Le Quesne's book on the family history suggests that Thomas Le Quesne was living here in 1523, and the owner in the mid-19th century, by which time the house was known as Woodlands, was his descendant Nicolas Le Quesne. In 1897, when his grandson Edward Gallais Le Quesne married, the notice in the newspaper Les Chroniques de Jersey included an invitation to an 'at home' at Woodlands.

• The 1891 census does not name Woodlands, but it was clearly Edward (25) living and farming here as head of household, living with his widowed mother Rachel (53) and his sisters Louisa (26) and Ellen (18), and a general servant

• The 1901 census shows Edward (35) farming at Woodlands, living with his wife Elizabeth (33), daughter Mildred (2), widowed mother-in-law Elizabeth Le Montais (75) and two servants

Historic Environment Record entry

Listed building

A good example of a mid-19th century farmhouse, which retains historic character and some features. Two-storey, five-bay with single-storey wings on each side. Pitched slate roof with pair of rendered chimneys. Central doorway with sidelights and overlight, under fine porch with fluted Ionic pillars and dentil cornice.