Historic Jersey buildings
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Property name
Les Peupliers
Location
Chemin de l'Eglise, St Ouen [1]
Type of property
18th century house with rare sundial
Valuations
No recent transactions
Families associated with the property
- Moulin: In 1941 Marie Sainte Moulin, nee Georgelin (1893-1975), whose husband Jean died the year before, was living here with her sons John Hedley (1920- ) and Lawrence George (1923- ) An application was made in 1940 to defer John Hedley's military call-up, which was presumably successful
Historic Environment Record entry
Listed building
A fine late 18th century house built with high quality materials and with a rare sundial still in situ; with mid-19th century boulangerie.
Main house built late 18th century; boulangerie built around 1840. At the base of the modern staircase is a reused, very rare early chamfered base stone with a hollow chamfer that is stopped with a cross circa 1400.
Two-storey, five-bay house with single-storey boulangerie attached to west. Pitched slate roof has dressed granite chimneystacks, with thatch dripstones, on east and west gables.
West stack has 18th century slate sundial.
The interior of the house was radically altered in the late 1960s with few original features surviving.
Notes and references
- ↑ Next door to Les Peupliers Farm
