List as Site of Special Interest: Haut du Marais, St. Ouen.

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A decision made (26/09/2008) regarding: List as Site of Special Interest: Haut du Marais, Rue de la Croute, St. Ouen.

Decision Ref:	MD–PE–2008-0209
Subject:	List as a Site of Special Interest Haut du Marais, Rue de la Croute, St Ouen
Decision Summary Title:	DS - List as a Site of Special Interest Haut du Marais, Rue de la Croute, St Ouen
DS Author:	Kevin Pilley – Assistant Director
DS Date:	16 September 2008	DS Status:	Public
Written Report Title:	WR – List as a Site of Special Interest Haut du Marais, Rue de la Croute, St Ouen
WR Author:	Kevin Pilley – Assistant Director
WR Date	16 September 2008	WR Status:	Public
Oral Rapporteur:	Kevin Pilley – Assistant Director/ Roger Hills – Head of Historic Buildings (Jersey Heritage)
Decision(s):	The Minister for Planning and Environment determined that Haut du Marais, Rue de la Croute, St Ouen be added to the List of Sites of Special Interest
Reason(s) for Decision:	The special interest of Haut du Marais, Rue de la Croute, St Ouen, as defined and in the schedule and relative to the published criteria for selection, justifies its inclusion on the List of Sites of Special Interest in accordance with the provisions and purposes of the Planning and Building (Jersey) Law 2002 and; it accords with the States Strategic Plan commitment of protecting and sympathetically managing the Island’s built heritage assets.
Legal and Resource Implications:	Article 51(2)(b) of the Planning and Building (Jersey) Law 2002 enables the Minister to include on the List of Sites of Special Interest those buildings and places that the Minister is satisfied has public importance by reason of the special archaeological, architectural, artistic, historical, scientific or traditional interest that attached to the building or place.
Action required:	Notify the owner Update the List of Sites of Special Interest Notify Development Control
Signature:
Position:	Minister for Planning and Environment
Date Signed:		Date of Decision (If different to Date Signed):

List as Site of Special Interest: Haut du Marais, St. Ouen.

PLANNING AND BUILDING (JERSEY) LAW 2002

SCHEDULE

Haut du Marais, La Rue de la Croute, St. Ouen

In amplification of the requirement of;

Article 51 Paragraph 3(a) to show in relation to each site included on the List which one or more of the special interests set out in paragraph (2) attaches to the site;
Article 51 Paragraph 3(b) to describe the site with sufficient particularity to enable it to be easily identified and;
Article 51 Paragraph 3(d) to specify any activity, referred to in Article 55 Paragraph (1), which may be undertaken on the site without the Minister’s permission;

the following supports the Minister for Planning and Environment’s view that the site known as Haut du Marais, situated in La Rue de la Croute in the Parish of St. Ouen is of special interest.

i)	Special interest	Architectural, historical and archaeological
ii)	Description: abbreviated	Single-storey building circa 1700 - used as bakehouse and stable
	Description: expanded	Haut du Marais dates to the late 1600s / early 1700s and is an interesting and rare example of Jersey vernacular architecture of this period. The building was used as a bakehouse and stable - although may have begun as a cottage - historically belonging to the Le Maistre family. The building is single-storey, constructed of rubble granite with elongated and irregular quoins. The north facing gable has an integral fireplace and granite chimney stack with thatch weathering stones. The gable contains a small door into the loft. Also present is a single support stone for the fireplace projecting through the gable, and the remains of an early pin-and-eye gate hinge. The south facing gable has a small ventilation opening to the loft, below which is a pair of nesting holes for pigeons or doves. There is a small window to the stable below. The front of the building faces east and contains two doorways and two windows - all with unchamfered granite dressings and timber lintels. One door provides access into the stable and the other (which is unusually combined with a window) into the bakehouse room. The west facing wall has a single window into the stable. Internally the building was previously divided into two rooms by a timber partition but is now a single space. The joinery to the loft floor and roof all appear to be late 19th century and the roof pantiles likely date to this period. There is an earth floor. The fireplace appears to have been reconfigured in the late 19th century when a new bread oven was constructed of granite with brick lining. There is a niche within the original chimney embrasure, and another niche in the west wall beside the bread oven. The Richmond map of 1795 shows another south facing building (now lost) alongside the bakehouse.
	Description: additional references
	Description: location	Plan attached
iii)	Activities referred to in Article 55(1) of the Law which may be undertaken without the Minister’s permission:	The carrying on of any of the following activities – to use or operate a device designed or adapted to detect or locate metal or minerals in the ground; to carry on an activity which might injure or deface the site or part of a site require the express prior consent of the Minister.