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Historic Jersey buildings
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Property name
La Chesnaie
Other names
- Le Chenee - as shown in 1881 census
- Constantia
- Le Racoin
- The Cottage
- Malesh
Location
Grande Route de Faldouet, St Martin
Type of property
18th century country house, divided into several separate residential units
Valuations
- Le Racoin (No 1) sold for £785,000 in 2018
- Malesh, later Constantia (No 2) sold for £462,000 in 2008, £472,500 in 2013; £630,000 in 2019 and £750,000 in 2020
The Cottage sold for £500,000 in 2017
Families associated with the property
- Messervy: The Messervys were the earliest owners recorded for this property, from whom it passed, in a female line to the Dumaresqs. The original house was long ago replaced by the very pleasant, though uniform, current 18th century building
- Dumaresq
- Le Breton
- Payn: The 1881 census shows landed proprietor Edward Payn (1817- ), a widower, living here with his brother George (1831- ) and sisters Eliza (1826- ), Fanny (1827- ) and Jane (1831- )
- Le Bailly: In 1941 Gustave Jean Auguste Le Bailly (1891- ) was living here with his wife Marie Louise, nee Le Roy (1890- ), their daughters Simone Marie Augustine (1916- ) and Madelaine Simone Louise (1929- ); and Marie Louise's sister Augustine Ameline Elsie Le Roy (1897- )
Datestones
- 17 MLBT MLBT 69 - not included in the Datestone Register. If properly recorded it is likely that both sets of initials are for Le Breton, but we have not been able find a corresponding marriage record
Historic Environment Record entry
Listed building
Mid-late 18th century rural house retaining original exterior features and contributing to streetscape character. Shown on the Richmond Map of 1795. Five-bay two-storey main house. Altered linear range of outbuildings on both sides. Pantile roof, rendered chimneys, five dormers.
Randomly coursed granite rubble with ashlar quoins and quoined window surrounds.
