“A STATE OF THE ART MARINE RESIDENCE IN A MAGNIFICENT POSITION WITH SPECTACULAR PANORAMIC SEA VIEWS TOWARDS THE FRENCH COASTLINE”
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Cleverly combining the immediate benefits of turnkey, contemporary new build with the enduring pleasure of absolute quality of concept, design, materials and workmanship.
The interiors are spatially planned to be adaptable and include extensive reception, living spaces, five Family Suites and Guest Accommodation.
The building specification exceeds current market expectations ensuring an easily maintained environment with all modern conveniences.
The 2.8 acre grounds comprise protected parking, lawns, terraced pools, borders & private foreshore with a back drop of panoramic sea views.
CONTENTS Location and Position
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Accommodation in Short
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Ground floor
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First floor
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Lower Ground floor
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Externally
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Plans
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Jersey
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Important Notice
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Agents
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LOCATION & POSITION Situated in one of the finest coastal locations in the Channel Islands on Jersey’s North East coast, Carteret House enjoys a commanding cliff–top position above the idyllic fishing harbour of Rozel. The house sits central to two National Trust protected promontories, affording views of protected native woodland with a private winding pathway leading down to a rocky cove. Panoramic views of the French coast provide a dramatic backdrop to the reef of Les Écréhous. 14 miles from the French coast, Jersey is the largest and most southerly of the Channel Islands.
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ACCOMMODATION IN SHORT Main house: 975sqm (10,500 sqft) Ancillary rooms: 66sqm (715 sqft) Staff/Guest accommodation: 53sqm (570sqft) Garaging: 65sqm (700sqft) Total: 1,159sqm (12,474sqft) GROUND FLOOR Covered porch flanked by reflecting pools. Weather lobby leading to entrance lobby with cloakroom and cloaks cupboard. Secretariat (Entrance Court Views) – a large office with its own kitchen, access to IT room. Study (Entrance Court and Sea Views). Entrance hall – A large classically proportioned room with sea views, panoramic windows onto balcony, fireplace and staircase to first floor. CARTERET HOUSE, JERSEY
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Family room – a breathtaking space, formal by design yet informal in nature. With coffered ceiling, sea views, panoramic windows onto balcony, three sets of double doors to the dining room.
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Kitchen – a substantial space ideal for daytime and family dining and lounging, with sea views and panoramic windows leading onto the balcony. Staircase leading down to lower ground floor.
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Dining lobby giving access to cloakroom, utility, rear entrance lobby, staff cloakroom and rear stairs. Dining room – a perfectly proportioned large formal and yet intimate dining space giving access to the wine cave.
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The wine cave is a controlled environment with copious capacity for wine storage, a wet bar and butler's pantry storage.
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FIRST FLOOR Accessed from the hall, the main staircase leads to a half landing with a glimpsed view through the magnificent ‘Belle Piece’ of the landing window into the wine cave. The bespoke staircase, in walnut and ebony, is an exquisite piece of design forming the central focus of the space, linking the two floors in composition with the magnificent landing window and crowning roof–light.
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The landing and bedroom corridor, a generous and elegant space, period in form with minimal detail.
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SUITE 1 The master suite's double doors lead into a privacy lobby lined with wardrobes and giving access to the master bedroom with large private balcony.
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SUITE 1 His and her bathrooms.
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SUITE 2 La Cabine – a naval themed space with barrel vaulted ceilings and cherrywood joinery.
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SUITE 3 The Deco Suite with ‘Odeon’ ceiling detail and Italian marble bathroom.
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SUITE 4 The gustavian suite lined in bright sycamore with a cosy ‘night nook’. The bedroom has seating and desk areas all laid out in a modern and minimalist Swedish style.
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SUITE 5 The Teak suite – lined with teak wardrobes. The entrance to this suite guides you into the centre of the room with a stunning view of the bay from the Juliet Balcony. A laundry room is accessible from the bedroom corridor landing with rear stairs back down to the ground floor.
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LOWER GROUND FLOOR The delight of the lower ground floor is the seamless transition between the inside and the outside, panoramic sliding windows gliding back to link the two. The architecture of the interior conjoins with the architecture of the landscape. The major visual axis that leads you down from the kitchen continues through the building and then on between the swimming pool and the seating area via steps down to the lawns and then the seascape beyond. The bar relates entirely to the swimming pool and in the daytime gives a welcome shady place to view or supervise the activity in the pools, superbly equipped in exotic timbers, flamed Italian black slate and glass. In the daytime individual buildings can be discerned on the French coast. The bar includes every facility. (At night the illuminated pool gives a stunning backdrop.)
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The changing room includes a magnificent deluge shower, cloakroom and sauna, with walls hand painted by Henry Van de Vivjer.
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The cinema is at the rear of the main den which includes ample space for a snooker table and other recreations.
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EXTERNALLY The garage block incorporates garaging for three cars and gardener's store. Above which, and accessed by an external staircase, is the guest (or staff) suite comprising a large living area with panoramic views, storage and bathroom. The space is plumbed for a kitchen which could be readily fitted. Accessed from the pool terraces is a detached gymnasium or study space, secluded but with dramatic views to sea.
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THE ENTRANCE COURT The gates of Carteret House are formed in ‘massif’ Burgundy oak and are currently naturalising – or pickling in the salt air – becoming a beautiful silver grey. Fabricated by one of France’s foremost ‘Charpentier’ these jointed and pegged timbers are entirely hand cut and built including ‘Jewel’ stop chamfers in which the makers chisel marks can still be seen. The gates are flanked with granite capped piers topped with classic copper lanterns. The parking court is entirely enclosed, and designed to conceal, not revealing the views and affording privacy to the grounds. Laid with granite sets, the courtyard offers ample parking and gives access to the garaging, stores and concealed service areas.
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The service areas are indicative of the quality of build and finish, being paved in granite and finished with galvanised steel treillage for added privacy and naturally soften the walls' capping. Flanked by twin reflecting or Koi pools, granite steps lead up to the main Italian slate–clad portico. The main entrance door was designed in tandem with the gates but is polished to reveal the ‘tiger striping’ in the oak. A major axis runs from the main entrance door to the substantial pedestrian gate to the woodland beyond, a secondary axis runs from the gate to the service area through the portico to the gate to the private grounds beyond.
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THE POOL TERRACES Three tiered pools include a generous and bespoke hot spa, a warm, shallow paddling/relaxing pool and the main swimming pool – an infinity pool with a dramatic black slate water fall beyond. The paddling pool is separately heated a few degrees warmer than the more energetic, swimming pool.
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A major feature of the pool terraces is a large sunken seating area designed to incorporate all–weather furniture. The terraces are all interlinked with pathways and steps and include barbecue and dining decks.
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The terraces are complemented by low maintenance borders, which include large granite boulders, exotic planting and ivy lawns arranged to protect the spaces without ever precluding or diminishing the views. Planted in late 2010, the planting is made up of mature specimens suitable to the sea air and sunshine and including a summer flowering ‘sea’ of Blue Geraniums.
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Wide granite steps link the ground and lower ground terraces leading down to the lawns beyond. The ground floor terraces are protected by a structural glass handrail, canted to reduce reflection, with a marine grade polished steel handrail. Panels of hardwood decking are contained within bush hammered granite paving, classically laid in the Italianate manner. Lighting is discreet, without glare, and without apparent source ensuring safety and comfort whilst making the best of the night sky and the lights of France. The Terraces are wired for sound and data sources linked directly to the I.T. room.
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THE GARDEN ROOM Whether used for a gymnasium or as a quiet retreat the undulating terraced lawns and rocky outcrop planting dramatically frame the views from this garden room. The lawns soften the transition from the architectural formality of the pool terraces to the partially wooded and rugged hillside down to the sea. Extensive planting of Thorny Rosa Rugosa forms an impenetrable barrier of dark pink roses in the summer and massive hips in the winter. The main ‘cotil’ is planted with Blue Hydrangea accented with Phormiums, huge grasses, Acanthus Mollis and Aralia. The grounds will reach maturity during summer 2011.
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Wine Cave
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JERSEY COASTLINE Rugged cliffs sheltering wide sandy bays of Gulf Stream warmed and crystal clear water surround the island. Beaches vary from sandy coves to the vast sweeping bay of St Ouen’s, beloved of surfers and walkers. St Brelades Bay is the family bay, facing south, the warm shallow waters play host to sunbathers, bathers and the gentler water sports. From the great rock pools of La Rocque and Green Island to the silken sand of the Royal Bay of Grouville, Jersey has an immense variety of shoreline. Harbours in St Helier, St Aubin, Gorey and Rozel offer various levels of berthing and facility. Whether serious yachtsmen or fair–weather sailor, boat owners have easy access not only to the Jersey coastline, but also the other Channel Islands and the Normandy and Brittany coasts and beyond to Britain’s south coast. CARTERET HOUSE, JERSEY
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COUNTRYSIDE Wooded valleys crisscross the island opening out into water meadows, home to wildfowl and the infamous Jersey cows. Organisations including The National Trust for Jersey, the Men of the Trees, Jersey Heritage and the Société preserve and protect the rural heritage and the uniquely vernacular granite farms and mills. The lanes of Jersey are beautifully maintained with a biannual ‘Branchage’ enforced at Parish level to ensure the neat trimming back after the wildflowers have set seed for the next season. Intertwining Green Lanes are restricted to 15mph where priority is given to pedestrians and cyclists. The fields of Jersey are well maintained, annually covered knee–deep in ‘Vraic’ – seaweed gathered from the beaches and used as a natural and freely available fertilizer. The first crop each year is the infamous Jersey Royal.
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SPORT As well as unsurpassed watersports Jersey has every conceivable sporting facility to offer. There are six golf courses to choose from, three being coastal links with varying and dramatic views to France, Sark and Guernsey. Other world class facilities include squash, badminton, indoor and outdoor tennis, football and cricket, gymnasia, bowling and boules. SHOPPING While the ubiquitous UK High Street brands are well represented, Jersey shopping also includes specialist local shops creating a unique Jersey feel to the retail experience. The great deluxe Houses of France and abroad are well represented in the department stores of King Street and local but internationally renowned jewellers abound. Farm shops are expanding from home–grown produce to daily imported French products.
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EATING OUT With more restaurants per capita than London and a well–travelled and sophisticated palate, Jersey restaurants are as diverse as those in any European capital. From beach cafÊs to Michelin starred restaurants, the variety is tremendous. Most use locally grown seasonal ingredients and many offer freshly landed fish and seafood. CARTERET HOUSE, JERSEY
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LOYAL TO THE CROWN Jersey has a population which fluctuates around 89,000 governed by The States Assembly. Although Jersey has historical ties to Britain, with a constitutional relationship well established over 900 years, it is not part of the UK nor the political aspects of the European Community.
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TAX & BUSINESS The island enjoys almost full employment, no public debt and a low tax regime. This underpins the promotion of Jersey as one of the world's leading offshore finance centres increasing the appeal to high net worth individuals. The island has an income tax rate of 20 pence in the pound for residents and there is no Capital Gains, Estate or Inheritance duty. UK VAT is not applicable in Jersey. Individuals seeking to move to Jersey need to apply for a residential licence.
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QUALIFYING TO RESIDE Subject to obtaining the necessary permission to purchase and occupy the property, the purchaser may occupy the main house as their sole and principal place of residence.
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London
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Amsterdam
Paris
¾ hour
erine’s y
Geneva
1 hour
COMMUNICATIONS Central St Helier and Marina – 4 miles, Jersey Airport – 7.5 miles
Milan Nice
1¾ hours
Bonne Nuit Bay
Devil’s Hole
London
Bouley Bay
St John
Barcelona
Trinity
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St Ouen
Rome
St Martin
Madrid
Ouen’s Bay
St Peter
Flight times London 35 minutes Paris 50 minutes
St Lawrence
Amsterdam
Paris
¾ hour
St Catherine’s Bay
1 hour
Geneva
Jersey has excellent scheduled air services with the UK’s international hubs as well as regular services to UK Regional Airports and the other Channel Islands. Milan
St Brelade St Aubin’s Bay
St Hellier
Nice
1¾ hours St Clement
Barcelona
Rome
St Brelade’s Bay
Approximate flight times from Jersey (by private jet)
This plan is published for guidance only and although it is believed to be correct, its accuracy is not guaranteed, nor is it intended to form any part of any contract.
Madrid
St Clement’s Bay This plan is published for guidance only and although it is believed to be correct, its accuracy is not guaranteed, nor is it intended to form any part of any contract.
Scheduled services also include Paris, Zurich and Geneva. In addition, international and intercontinental private charter is readily available.
Approximate flight times from Jersey (by private jet)
Scheduled sea routes include Portsmouth, Weymouth and Poole in the U.K, St Malo and Granville in France and to the other Channel Islands.
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IMPORTANT NOTICE 1. No description or information given about the property or its value, whether written or verbal or whether or not in these Particulars ("Information") may be relied upon as a statement of representation or fact. The joint agents have no authority to make any representation and accordingly any information given is entirely without responsibility on the part of the joint agents or the seller. 2. Images included in these particulars are for illustrative purposes only. Any areas, measurements or distances given are approximate only. 3. Reference to alterations to, or use of any part of the property is not a statement that necessary planning, building regulations or other consent has been obtained. Any intending buyer must verify these matters. 4. The buyer must satisfy themselves by inspection or otherwise as to the correctness of any information given. Photographs Dated: October 2010 Particulars Dated: October 2010 CARTERET HOUSE, JERSEY
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A comprehensive information and specification pack is available through the joint agents.
F. Le Gallais & Sons Ltd 15 Bath Street, St Helier Jersey, JE2 4ST Tel: +44 (0)1534 766689 Fax: +44 (0)1534 725336 Email: steve.toudic@legallais.co.uk www.legallais.co.uk
Edge Cox Peel & Wilson 3 Charles Street, St. Helier Jersey, JE2 4SF Tel: +44 (0)1534 877977 Mob: +44 (0)7797 731355 Email: james@ecpw.co.uk www.ecpw.co.uk
Knight Frank LLP 55 Baker Street London W1U 8AN Tel: +44 (0)20 7629 8171 Fax: +44 (0)20 7861 5266 Email: peter.edwards@knightfrank.com www.knightfrank.co.uk CARTERET HOUSE, JERSEY
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