Register for Buildings and Sites of Architectural, Archaeological and Historical Importance in Jersey
10 & 12 Patriotic Place, St Helier
This report has been prepared by Jersey Heritage as part of its responsibility under a Service Level Agreement to provide reports and recommendations to the Minister for Planning and Environment on the architectural, historical and archaeological significance of buildings and sites.
The assessment and recommendation are made in accordance with the existing criteria for assessment and designation of historic buildings. The report includes the views and advice offered by the Ministerial Registration and Listing Advisory Group.
Author of report: Roger Hills BA(Hons) MA DipBldgCons (RICS) IHBC Head of Historic Buildings
Date of report: 24 November 2008
File ref: HE1288 & HE1290
Current status
No.10 (Rosedale) is currently registered as a BLI; No.12 is unregistered (both buildings were last reviewed by the JBH Sub-Committee in 2000).
Relevant interests of the site
Historic interest
Both houses date to the early C19 and are shown on the 1834 Le Gros map.
Architectural interest
No.10 (Rosedale) retains is historic external form and character. It is 3-bay, 2-storey with attic. The walls are stucco – scored in imitation ashlar – with a slate roof and brick chimneystack. There are 4-pane timber sash windows dating to the later C19 throughout, and a glazed cheek dormer to the front and rear roof slope. The door has a later C19 cornice on console brackets although the door itself has been replaced. The house retains a front and rear garden – including a decorative ironwork gate and bootscraper.
No.12 has retained less of its historic external form and character. The house has been significantly altered with the walls and roof raised a few feet, large box dormers added to front and rear roof slopes, the chimneystack replaced, and modern windows inserted on the façade (some original 12-pane sashes survive on the rear elevation). A building has also been constructed in the front garden of No.12, which masks much of the house.
Scenic interest / group value
The houses have become isolated from their historic context and are overwhelmed by the form and scale of the surrounding development.
Advice offered by MRLAG (and others if stated)
MRLAG discussed the buildings at its meeting on 24 November 2008. Members were unanimous that No.12 does not merit registration.
The group agreed that No.10 (Rosedale) clearly has architectural and historical interest, but was asked to specifically consider whether the intrinsic architectural and historical interest is outweighed by the severely compromised setting. Members were unanimous that No.10 should be retained on the Register as a BLI despite the fact that the house has become isolated from its historic context, and is overwhelmed by the form and scale of the surrounding new development.
Jersey Heritage recommendation
No.10 (Rosedale) should be retained on the Register as a BLI including the front and rear gardens and granite boundary walls around the property; No.12 does not merit registration.
Justification relating to criteria
No.12 does not merit registration as the house does not retain its external historic form and detail.
The registration of No.10 (Rosedale) as a BLI is in accordance with the existing criteria for assessment and designation of historic buildings:
· No.10 retains its c.1820s external historic form and detail, and so makes a significant and positive contribution to the architectural and historical character and appearance of Jersey;
· No.10 is significant for its architectural design and composition;
No.10 illustrates aspects of Jersey’s early C19 social and economic history.
Attachments
Photographs, November 2008
Location plan
1834 Le Gros map