Historic Jersey buildings
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Property name
Swan Farm
Location
Langley Avenue, St Saviour
Type of property
17th century farmhouse
Valuations
No recent transactions
Families associated with the property
- Poingdestre
- Vautier: In 1941 Charles Philip Vautier (1905- ) was living here with his mother Mabel Ann Vautier, née Le Maistre (1872- ) and his sister Mabel (1900- )
Datestones
Strangely for a property of this age, no datestones have been identified.
Historic Environment Record entry
Listed building
17th century farmhouse retaining some original features, character and integrity as a farm group with associated outbuildings. Historical association as birthplace of Jean Poingdestre, historian and secretary to King Charles II.
Shown on the Richmond Map of 1795.
Five-bay, three-storey main farmhouse incorporating dower wing to the east. [1] L-shaped outbuildings behind the house, pigsties and modern garages beyond that. These buildings have been altered as part of a conversion into residential units. Pigsties have been preserved and restored.
Old Jersey Houses
An article in Vol One gives a brief biography of Jean Poingdestre and mentions a few minor architectural details of the property.
Notes and references
- ↑ As the photographs show clearly, this is a two-storey property. The main house has a strange arrangement of windows with two either side of the main entrance to create five bays and four, unevenly spaced, on the first floor. The two-storey integrated dower wing is two-bay but the windows and door are offset in the direction of the main house, giving a strangely unbalanced effect to the facade
1925
