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Listed building or place reference: PE0079

Historic site reference
Property
La Hague Manor (St. Georges School)
Road name
La Rue de la Hague
Parish
St. Peter
Location
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Grade
Listed Building Grade 2
Category
Residential (rural house)
Statement of significance
An important manor house site associated with the fief of La Hague. Includes notable house with associated outbuildings - the core of the house dating from 1753, remodeled in the 1870s. Set within grounds that include rare late C19 arboretum woodland, containing a fine collection laid out to the highest standards to evoke Himalayan glades. It is probably the finest arboretum in The Channel Islands.
Context
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External Description
The principal building is 2-storey plus roof accommodation, with a double pile form. The original entrance front to the south has 5-bays in granite ashlar, and a single bay extension to the west rendered between granite quoins and dressings. There is a Flemish Gable above the central bay - built in granite ashlars with a round headed window and surmounted by a stone cannon ball feature - with two flanking dormers. There is a smaller matching Flemish gable to the west extension. There are painted softwood sash windows, stone surrounds and a horizontal band along the sills and heads of the first floor windows. At the rear of the house is a late 19th century tower - rendered with stone quoins and parapet wall. The rendered extension to the north is from the same period. The main entrance is now through a single storey, flat roofed, granite ashlars porch on the west elevation. The porch has two sets of twin pilasters on a plinth flanking a square entrance, and a round gable parapet wall to the front with a cannon ball feature matching the Flemish gables. There is a double gable rendered east elevation with fully glazed single storey bay window on solid plinth. A dressed stone archway at the back of the kitchen wing links the north side of the main building with the outbuildings complex. There is a decorative garland feature around the head of the arch which appears to be made up of bits of medieval granite window tracery possibly brought from St Peter's church at the time of its restoration. The outbuildings include farm buildings and a colombier. The 2-storey circular colombier (now used as a music room) is believed to date from 1639 - possibly replacing an earlier one. It has a conical roof with fish-scale slates. The Carteret-Dumaresq arms set above the door were brought from another house in 1879. The gardens comprise three major sections: informal lawns to the east and south of the house, a granite-walled kitchen garden (with stone archway to the north of the house) and an arboretum which occupies the two valleys and the projecting high ground between. The extensive arboretum woodland has a large collection of trees and shrubs and a path system laid out to emulate Himalayan glades. The collection comprises a very varied collection of exotic species, some of which are rare, possibly unique in Jersey and beyond, such as Sequoia sempervirens and Picea sitchensis (Sitka Spruce) and others of which are probably the largest of their kind in the Channel Islands.
Internal Description
Of particular interest to the interior are the main staircase and the two reception rooms to the south. Of note are the fireplaces: a carved wood fireplace in the Headmaster's room, a marble fireplace in the south-east reception room, and timber panelled fireplace with finely carved Ionic columns in the hall - all of which are good examples of mid/late 18th century fireplaces with idyllic pastoral scenes and plant decorations. Also notable is a ceiling dome on pendentives above a square opening in the main staircase ceiling. It features 4 dates marking the stages in the house's development - the latest being 1872. It is believed that there are mural paintings of Italian artists concealed behind the ceiling panels.
Special interest
Archaeological,Architectural,Historical

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