Historic Jersey buildings
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Property name
Mont au Roux
Other names
- Mont au Roux Farm
- Mont au Roux Cottage
- Mont au Roux House
- Mont au Roux Villa - as shown in the 1901 census. Almost certainly the same property
- Mont au Roux Lodge [1]
Location
Rue du Bocage, St Brelade
Type of property
Farm with 18th century origins
Valuations
- Mont au Roux Cottage was sold for £345,000 in 2002 and £580,000 in 2008
- Mont au Roux Farm was sold for £725,000 in 2006; £1,450,000 in 2008; £2,030,000 in 1010
- Mont au Roux House was sold for £1,950,000 in 2021
Families associated with the property
- Le Touzel
- Seale
- Grant: In 1901 a retired executive engineer in the Indian Public Works Department, Alexander Grant (1859- ), born in the Bahamas, was living here with his wife Georgina (1869- ), nee Dobree, born in India, and their sons Alexander (1895- ) also born in India, George (1898- ), born in Jersey, and daughter Emily (1900- ) born in Jersey. The family had two domestic servants
- Le Montais: Arthur Dumaresq Le Montais (1903- ) and his wife Ada, née Eaton (1900- ) were living here in 1941
Datestones
- ILT MLT 1710 - For Jean and Marie Le Touzel, both born in France and married in St Brelade in 1704
- JLT ♥ RGF 1799 - For Joshua Le Touzel [2] and Rachel Giffard, married in St Brelade in 1771
- 18 JA SEALE 80 - For John Alfred Seale
Historic Environment Record entry
Listed building
A substantial farm group with a Georgian style 19th century frontage to an earlier house, and late 19th century dower wing, 18th century or earlier farm buildings. Shown on the Richmond Map of 1795.
Five-bay, two-storey house with three-bay dower wing on the south. Farm buildings, mainly converted to residential use, form a small yard on the south side with carriage entrance into a second yard with pigsties on the west.
Elliptical brick arch carriage entrance.