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Property name
Quennevais Farm
Other names
- Quennevais
- La Pointe
Location
Rue de l'Eglise, St Peter
Type of property
Former farm on northern boundary of Airport
Valuations
No recent transactions
Families associated with the property
History
Somewhat surprisingly this is not a listed building. It would appear to be a 19th century farmhouse which has been added to during the 20th century and its outbuildings converted to residential use.
It is now known as La Pointe, after Rue de La Pointe, which has a junction with Rue de l'Eglise to the side of the house. St Peter Census returns up to 1901 very unhelpfully list most properties in this district as 'House', but the 1911 census identifies this as 'Quennevais', the home of John Frederick Michel, his wife Elizabeth, four daughters and three sons.
But why would a house so far from the St Brelade district, Les Quennevais, have had this name? To reach one from the other today is a long drive (by Jersey standards) into the heart of St Peter, or down into St Ouen's Bay.
The answer is that the Airport has been built on top of the fields and country lanes which previously connected the undeveloped farmland of Les Quennevais with the very sparsely populated north-west corner of St Peter. Today the northern boundary of the Airport is just across the road from La Pointe.
The undeveloped south-west corner of St Peter from the air in 1933. Quennevais Farm is the white house in the centre right of the photograph. The group of buildings on the left are St Peter's Barracks
A map showing how the Airport now bisects the parish isolating the former farm from the Les Quennevais district after which is was named
A satellite image of the same area
