No 7 Caledonia Place

Historic Jersey buildings 7 Caledonia Place This property was formerly the popular Weighbridge hotel, the Great Western Index of all house profiles If you own this property, have ancestors who lived here, or can provide any further information and photographs, please contact us through editorial@jerripedia.org

The Great Western Hotel is on the right of this picture, to the side of Weighbridge Gardens

Property name

7 Caledonia Place

Other names

• Fountain Hotel ^[1]
• Great Western Hotel

Location

Caledonia Place, St Helier

Type of property

Former hotel, now public house

Valuations

• On 24 June 1933 the property was sold by George Charles Turner, son of George, to Ann Street Brewery, for £435 92 4d. On 9 July that year Annie Mary Helleur Le Cornu, daughter of Charles Philip, Dame of the Fief and Seigneurie of la Fosse, sold her seigneurial rights to the property to the brewery for £90. A number of people owned rentes on the property at the time of the sale and in 1936 they were bought by the brewery.

John de Gruchy Gaudin, son of Jean - £18 18s 9d for for one quarter and two and a half sixteenths of wheat rente; Elizabeth de Gare Le Ruez - £36 for two quarters; Phyllis Maud Briard, daughter of Ernest - £26 12s 6d for one quarter, three cabots and five sixteenths; Ethel Guinavon Labey, daughter of George Thomas - £29 5s for one quarter and five cabots; Rosa Ruth Bichard, daughter of Philip Edmund - £18 5s for four cabots

• In 1961 Hedley Clarence Morin leased the property from the brewery for two years for £500 a year
• In 2007 the Bridge Bar was sold for £300,000

Families and businesses associated with the property

Almanac entries:

• 1874 - J Gaudin, Publican
• 1880 - G Marie, Publican
• 1886-1890 - G S Brett, Fountain Hotel
• 1895-1900 - J B Bacon
• 1910-1925 - G J Turner
• 1930 - G C Turner
• 1935 - Great Western Hotel
• 1940-1955 - Great Western Hotel (Alfred George Blake)
• 1960 - Great Western Hotel (R A Freeman)
• 1965-1980 - Great Western Hotel (Hedley Morin)
• 1990 - Great Western Hotel (J Docherty)

1941 registration

In 1941 the Blake farmily were living at the hotel. Head of household was Alfred George Blake (1890- ) married to Amelia Minnie, nee Jarvis (1894- ), who were living here with Alfred's brother John Joseph (1884- ) and his wife Clara Priscilla, nee Le Tourneur (1885- ) and Alfred and Amelia's married daughter Margaret Amelia Freeman (1918- ), who was probably the wife of the next proprietor, R A Freeman. Alfred George Blake was born in Jersey, the son of Alfred Thomas. The family came to Jersey from Alderney, via Guernsey, in the 19th century

Historic Environment Record entry

Listed building 1870s hotel, retaining some original features and contributing to the character of Caledonia Place and Ordnance Yard. Originally Great Western Hotel. A pair of three-storey, three-bay rendered properties with parapet and moulded cornice. Each has a moulded frame between first and second floors. Commercial frontages on ground floor.

Notes and references

1. ↑ The property is shown as the Fountain Hotel, owned or managed by G S Brett, from at least 1886 to 1890. The first almanac mention of the Great Western Hotel was in 1940, but the premises are known to have traded with this name from the late 19th century