List as a Site of Special Interest: Home Farm, Grouville.

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A decision made (26/09/2008) regarding: List as Site of Special Interest: Home Farm, Rue de Grouville, Grouville.

Decision Ref:	MD–PE–2008-0208
Subject:	List as a Site of Special Interest Home Farm, Rue de Grouville, Grouville
Decision Summary Title:	DS - List as a Site of Special Interest Home Farm, Rue de Grouville, Grouville
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 Home Farm, Rue de Grouville, Grouville
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 Home Farm, Rue de Grouville, Grouville be added to the List of Sites of Special Interest
Reason(s) for Decision:	The special interest of Home Farm, Rue de Grouville, Grouville, 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 a Site of Special Interest: Home Farm, Grouville.

PLANNING AND BUILDING (JERSEY) LAW 2002

SCHEDULE

Home Farm, La Rue de Grouville, Grouville

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 Home Farm, situated in La Rue de Grouville in the Parish of Grouville is of special interest.

i)	Special interest	Historical and architectural
ii)	Description: abbreviated	Mid C18 farmstead with C19 additions
	Description: expanded	Farm group comprising a circa 1741 house with attendant outbuildings dating to mid-C18 and C19. This is a fine example of a traditional Jersey farmstead of this period. The mid-C18 house is notable for the quality of the masonry work including a façade of squared granite with dressed quoined openings. There is an embossed marriage stone 17.CML.ETZ.41 above the central doorway, and another at first floor level 18.CMLYYICT.17 - the left hand gable stone is also dated 1741. At the roadside are tall gatepiers to the front garden, dated 1750. The house also retains its original 6-panelled door with transom light, and there are 12-pane sash windows. The slate roof has a pair of dressed granite chimneystacks with dripstones, and 3 early attic dormers, with a single catslide loading door to the rear slope. In the rear wall of the house is an unchamfered round arch - apparently contemporary with the house and one of only 3 recorded examples in Jersey. The house retains its original plan and several interior features of note including a pair of large granite fireplaces on the ground floor, and historic joinery throughout - such as a mahogany staircase and 6-panel doors . Adjoining to the east of the house is a 2-storey building aligned roughly north-south. The south end of the building was reconstructed in the late C20 - the north end is of rubble granite with quoins and dressed granite openings. There is a hipped roof with single granite chimneystack. A further granite and brick building was added in line to the east circa 1898. There are several outbuildings that form a farmyard to the rear of the house. On the roadside is a 2-storey C18 range of rubble granite with dressed openings. There is a doorway with an inscribed lintel 17.CML.ETZ.46 - adjacent is an elliptical archway to the throughway with a datestone JWL.EB.1903 marking its enlargement from an original squared opening. A single storey range with pantile roof runs along the north side of the site.
	Description: additional references	Stevens 1.165
	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.

16 September 2008