A New Housing Development in 1966

A New Housing Development in 1966
[From Jersey Life, 1966]

DO YOU WANT a well-built, reasonably D priced house which is well equipped with modern conveniences yet is within easy walking distance of the centre of St. Helier. Such houses are not easy to find these days but Landfield Ltd., have the solution in their new development at Mont Millais where they are developing an extensive site situated almost opposite the former Jersey Tobacco Company’s factory. The new houses, several of which are already built, have views over Havre des Pas and Greve d’Azette to La Rocque.

  
This new development is well within easy walking distance of the town centre so that shopping without the use of a car and the consequent parking headache is perfectly feasible. Nine three-storey terraced houses are complete, or nearing completion and the firm is also to build two-storey houses and also maisonettes. 

A show house has been fully furnished and equipped in the three-storey range and has already been visited by many; house-hunters. Each house has a small forecourt bounded by low walls leading to a large garage and workshop with the front entrance adjoining. The parquet-tiled entrance hall leads to two rooms one of which could be used as store, utility room or playroom, from one a door leads to a 28ft. garden.

By way of a parana pine staircase in the hall, access is gained to the living rooms on the first floor which comprise a kitchen, lounge-diner and cloakroom. The kitchen floor is Marley-tiled and the room is fitted with cupboards and worktops along three walls, in fact the usual fittings one expects to find in a modern kitchen. A hatch serves the dining area while the opposite wall is taken up entirely with window space. The cloakroom is fitted with coloured lavatory and basin.

  
All the top floor rooms have large windows giving maximum light and air and includes two double rooms each with oak-faced wardrobes and cupboards, a single room and a bathroom that offers a choice of turquoise, pink or lemon suites with matching veined tiles on the walls; there is also an airing cupboard. Behar central heating is installed throughout the house and is thermostatically controlled from a master point. A shaver point is placed in the bathroom and there are ample light and power points all over the building. 

A substantial mortgage can be arranged on these houses which are reasonably priced and Landfields will be pleased to answer any queries which may be put to them.