Historic Jersey buildings
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Property name
18 Mulcaster Street
Other names
- Queen's Hotel
- Sussex Hotel
Location
Mulcaster Street, St Helier
Type of property
Former hotel, then bar, now nightclub
Valuations
No recent transactions. Owned by Ann Street Brewery since the 1930s
Families and businesses associated with the property
Census returns
- 1861: Nicholas Phillips (41) hotel keeper, wife Sarah (42)
- 1891-1901: Francis Taylor (48) hotel keeper (Queen’s Hotel), wife Esther Ann (25), five boarders
Almanac listings
- 1880: L Phillips, Queen’s Hotel
- 1886: Capt G Le Four, Queen's Hotel
- 1890-1905: F H Taylor
- 1910: A M Terrill
- 1915: J Couillard
- 1925-1930: Margaret Larbalestier, nee Fitzgerald [1]
- 1935-1940: Sussex Hotel – A E J Parker and Mrs E E Parker
- 1950-1955: Sussex Hotel - W H Walmsley [2]
- 1958-1975: Sussex Hotel - Stan Maiden [3]
- 1980: Sussex Hotel - W Thomas
- 1985: Sussex Hotel - H Jones
- 2018: Tanguy's
Historic Environment Record entry
Listed building
Part of a terrace of early 19th century shops retaining historic scale and character. An early 19th century shop shown on the 1834 Le Gros map. Mulcaster Street formed part of the heart of St Helier and an important connection to the waterfront in the early 19th century. Mid-terrace, three-bay, three-storey. Ground floor shop front largely altered, but with plain pilasters and plain fascia. [4]
Notes and references
- ↑ Leased the hotel from De Veulle and Company, wine, spirits and beer merchants, for £120 on a yearly tenancy
- ↑ In 1941 William Henry Walmsley (1895- ), his father John Thomas (1869- ) and his wife Jessie, nee Pluck (1905- ) were living here
- ↑ On 4 March 1961 Stanley Maiden renewed the lease of the hotel from Ann Street Brewery at an annual rent of £700
- ↑ This property may have been in a terrace of shops, but we can find no records to support the assertion that it was itself a shop. The earliest record we can find is in the 1861 census, which records the presence of hotel keeper Nicholas Phillips, and all records since then show it as a hotel, first Queen's, and then the Sussex, before becoming a bar and then a nightclub. Until it closed it was among St Helier's oldest small town-centre hotels. All this historical detail has been missed by the planners in recommending it as a listed building
Queen's Hotel
1881 advert
1898 advert
The Sussex Hotel
Pictures of Stan and Ivy Maiden at the Sussex in the 1960s
A charity minibus handover outside the Sussex Hotel in the 1960s, when it had been a hotel for over a century and was one of the oldest small, family-run hotels in the centre of St Helier
