Historic Jersey buildings
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Property name
Beaumarais Farm
Other names
- Chambard
- Beaumaris [1]
Location
Rue de Jambart, St Clement
Type of property
18th century farmhouse
Valuations
An outbuilding sold for £55,000 in 2001 and another to the east of the property for £310,000 in 2006
Families associated with the property
- Venement
- Gaudin
- Le Neveu: J Le Neveu on Godfray map
Datestones
- 17 DVM RAM 54 - For Daniel Venement and Rachel Amy who married in 1752
- 18 DGD ♥ MVM 10 - For David Gaudin who married Marie Venement in 1800 [2]
Historic Environment Record entry
Listed building
Mid-18th century farmhouse with some early features surviving, particularly the large fireplaces, one of which is of particular note. Stable retains 19th century partitions and other associated timber features.
The main house emulates the polite architecture of Georgian fashion but with a continuing local character. Shown on the Richmond Map of 1795.
Two-storey, five-bay farmhouse with associated outbuildings attached. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, dressed granite chimneys, 2 dormers.
Single pile, double fronted, central hall and stairs. Some early features, notably granite fireplaces in two ground floor rooms: east room fireplace altered and largely infilled; west room fireplace, large opening, dressed granite lintel, incised corbels, small niches in side walls, larger cupboard niches in flanking wall. Large granite fireplace in first floor west bedroom, corbels and granite lintel, possibly later insertion. Fireplace believed to survive behind later wall in first floor east bedroom.
Stable to west retains 19th century stall partitions for three animals, hay loft, flooring, runnel, exposed beams. Barn to east believed to retain little or no original features.
Old Jersey Houses
A brief entry in Vol 2 mentions only the datestones and the fireplaces