Nos 17½-19 Beresford Street

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Property name

Nos 17½-19 Beresford Street

Location

Beresford Street, St Helier

Type of property

Adjoining Victorian retail properties also linking to No 21

Valuations

• 17½, 19 and 21 Beresford Street were sold for £1,375,000 in 2005, and for £950,000 in 2016
• The same properties were subsequently on offer for £1,150,000

Families and businesses associated with the property

Census returns

• 1871 - 17½, Philip Asplet (53) widowed photographer; daughters Letitia (20) and Alice Anna Adele (17). 19 – William Brown (27) draper; wife Alexina (28). 19½ - Richard Andres (75) musician; Frederick Hake (13) servant boy
• 1881 - 17½, Edmond de Reuly (41) chemist from France; wife Aglace (40) and son Julien (2). 19, William Henry Brown (37) men’s outfitter; wife Alexina Selina (40), one servant
• 1891 - 19, William Brown (47) master hosier; wife Alexina (40)
• 1901 - 17½, Thomas Le Seelleur (60) Town Hall secretary; wife Elizabeth (65), two sons and two daughters. 19, William Brown (57) hosier; wife Alexina Selina (50)

Almanac listings

• 1874 - 19, William Brown, shirt maker. 19½, C C Vance, tobacconist
• 1880-1905 - 19, William Brown, haberdasher
• 1900-1920 - 17½, T J Le Scelleur
• 1920-1940 - 19, Beresford Hosiery Company
• 1930-1940 - 17½, Amusement arcade
• 1950 - 17½, Jays Furnishing. 19, F G Cutland
• 1960-1975 - 19/21, Jays Furnishing
• 1980 - 19/21, Cavendish Woodhouse
• 1990 - 19/21, Lancashire Textiles

Historic Environment Record entry

Listed building

Mid-19th century shop with an unusual roofline, of streetscape value. Main body two-storey, six-bay. Front elevation: Roof unseen behind parapet. Rendered chimney to west. Projecting cornice at eaves level, parapet over divided into three panels with vermiculated sides. At west end is three-storey, one=bay 'tower' with crenellated parapet.

Notes and references

No 19 is on the left, past Beresford House, in this 1897 photograph. The crenellated tower of No 17½ can be seed just to the left of the suspended globe

No 17½ is the single-bay 'tower' on the left, No 19 is in the middle and No21, now an integral part of the whole property, is on the right