Les Alpes, St Martin
Description
There are perhaps a handful of houses in Jersey that stop you in awe at the gate. Les Alpes is one of them. Built in Victorian Gothic tradition in the late 1800s, the house has been entirely reimagined in the past few years, with an interior that reads less like a period restoration and more like a West London townhouse. The current owners have maximised every opportunity to emphasize the many original features and blended them with a lovely contemporary finish, resulting in a perfect mix of character and practical function. The accommodation comprises entrance hall, living room, dining room, kitchen, study, and cloakroom at ground floor level, and four bedrooms - one utilised as a dressing room - plus three bathrooms on the first floor. The top floor features a large bedroom suite with ensuite bathroom and dressing room. The lower floor can operate as part of the main house or as a self-contained apartment - ideal for use as staff accommodation, a teenager's wing or to provide rental income. This level consists of hallway, living room, kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, utility room and wine room. The property is perfect for entertaining and family gatherings both inside and out. The kitchen anchors the social life of the house - generous, beautifully finished and designed as much for gathering as for cooking. The grounds are genuinely private, enclosed by mature planting, and accessed via both a main and separate service entrance with parking for numerous cars. The summerhouse - designed to mirror the architecture of the main house - provides its own distinct entertaining space: a considered retreat within the grounds from which to appreciate both the gardens and the house itself. The integrated wellness area - discreet, sheltered, and suited to three seasons - completes an…
This property's own sale history, 2003–2017
4 recorded sales of this address in the Places.je transaction register — matched by house name/street and parish, not a unique property ID, so treat this as a strong likely match rather than a certainty.
| Sale date | Price | At 2024 prices |
|---|---|---|
| 2017-06-30 | £1,600,000 | £2,189,044 +37% |
| 2014-02-14 | £875,000 | £1,336,287 +53% |
| 2003-06-01 | £840,000 | £1,894,709 +126% |
| 2003-06-01 | £875,000 | £1,973,655 +126% |
The "2024 prices" column carries each past price forward at the island-wide repeat-sales index — the same money at today's market level, not a valuation of this specific property. It takes no account of the condition the property was in at each sale, or any work done to it since.
Nearby
- PubThe Royal0.36 mi · 8 min walk · 1 min drive
- RestaurantRestaurant & Tearoom1.2 mi · 26 min walk · 4 min drive
- CaféThe Village Tea Room0.55 mi · 12 min walk · 2 min drive
- SupermarketValley Foods Ltd0.62 mi · 13 min walk · 2 min drive
- AirportJersey Airport8.7 mi · 28 min drive
- Petrol stationUnnamed petrol1.2 mi · 26 min walk · 4 min drive
- GP surgeryIndigo House Surgery4.1 mi · 88 min walk · 13 min drive
- DentistBracken Barrett4.7 mi · 101 min walk · 15 min drive
- SchoolSt Martin's School0.72 mi · 15 min walk · 2 min drive
- Hospital / medical centreRosewood House1.1 mi · 23 min walk · 3 min drive
Nearest match in each category, from a fixed list of Jersey amenities — not every pub, café or shop on the island, so treat this as a useful sample, not a complete picture. Distances are straight-line ("as the crow flies"), multiplied by 1.3 to approximate real road-network distance — this is an estimate, not turn-by-turn routing, and actual walking/driving routes may differ. Times assume constant average speeds appropriate to Jersey's roads and 40mph limits: walking 4.5 km/h, cycling 14 km/h, driving 30 km/h — not open-road speeds, and they don't account for traffic, parking or terrain.
What would this cost to buy?
A live estimate, not a quote — change any figure below and everything recalculates immediately. Stamp duty / Land Transaction Tax uses Jersey's own standard-residence bands (see buying property in Jersey for the full table and how share-transfer property differs); the mortgage side is a standard capital-and-interest repayment calculation, not an offer from any lender.
Getting connected
Jersey has two residential broadband providers: JT — the island's own former state telecom, now Jersey's full-fibre network builder — and Sure, which completed absorbing Airtel-Vodafone's Channel Islands customer base in September 2025 (Airtel-Vodafone no longer trades as a separate operator here). Jersey's copper phone network is largely already history: JT finished building an island-wide fibre-to-the-home network back in July 2018 and has been retiring copper ever since — well ahead of Guernsey, where the equivalent copper switch-off was still under way through 2026. Always confirm actual coverage and switch-over status at this specific address directly with JT or Sure before assuming.
What would improving it be worth?
Modelled for this property in St Martin. Adjust build quality or size for this property
Value added is the extra floor area priced at £8,500/m² — the midpoint asking price per m² among 21 St Martin properties currently for sale that publish a floor area. Cost uses £4,000–£6,000/m² new build and £2,000–£4,000/m² refurbishment, depending on quality. Net is against the mid rate. The last column is how often Jersey actually approves that kind of application.
Unlike the value side of this table (priced from Jersey's own current asking prices), the £4k–6k new-build / £2k–4k refurbishment rates are carried across from guernseyproperties.gg, where they were supplied by that site's owner from local Guernsey experience — they have not been independently verified for Jersey, and construction costs plausibly differ between the islands. Treat the Cost and Net columns as an unverified placeholder until a Jersey-specific quantity surveyor's rate replaces them.
| Improvement | Value it might add | Likely cost | Net | Approved |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Add a bedroom (single-storey extension) A modest double plus circulation, built new. ~14 m² |
£119,000 | £70,000 14 m² · mid spec new build range £56,000–£84,000 |
+£49,000 | 86% (569) |
| Loft conversion with a bedroom Works inside an existing roof, so it prices as refurbishment rather than new build — which is why it usually wins. ~20 m² |
£170,000 | £60,000 20 m² · mid spec refurb range £40,000–£80,000 |
+£110,000 | 86% (84) |
| Two-storey extension Roughly 14 m² on each of two floors. ~28 m² |
£238,000 | £140,000 28 m² · mid spec new build range £112,000–£168,000 |
+£98,000 | 83% (193) |
| Garage, annexe or outbuilding Detached space is worth less per m² than main-house floor area. ~18 m² |
£91,800 | £90,000 18 m² · mid spec new build range £72,000–£108,000 |
+£1,800 | 82% (216) |
Two things it cannot see. First, it prices floor area at the local average rate — it doesn't know your plot, your roof, your outlook, or whether an extension is physically possible; nor whether your street has a ceiling price that no amount of extending beats. Second, the rate comes from asking prices of other properties currently for sale that state a floor area — a minority of Jersey's live stock, so treat the sample sizes shown as real limits, not decoration.
The obvious alternative method is worse, which is why it isn't used here: comparing a typical 3-bed with a typical 4-bed suggests a bedroom is worth far more than it actually is — a bigger bed-count usually means a bigger house on a bigger plot, so that figure measures the mix of what's for sale, not the value of adding a room.
Before spending anything, get a builder's quote and talk to an architect — the type-of-work approval rates show how often that kind of application actually succeeds.
Sale history
| Sale date | Price | At 2024 prices | Address on register |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-06-30 | £1,600,000 | £2,189,044 +37% | Les Alpes, La Grande Route de Faldoue, St. Martin |
| 2014-02-14 | £875,000 | £1,336,287 +53% | Les Alpes, La Grande Route de Faldoue, St. Martin |
| 2003-06-01 | £840,000 | £1,894,709 +126% | Les Alpes, La Grande Route de Faldoue, St. Martin |
| 2003-06-01 | £875,000 | £1,973,655 +126% | Les Alpes, La Grande Route de Faldoue, St. Martin |
Matched by house name/street and parish against the Places.je property transaction register — not a unique-ID lookup, so a shared house name could span more than one property. The "2024 prices" column carries each price forward at the island-wide repeat-sales index — it is what that sum of money would be at today's market level, not a valuation of this property, and it takes no account of the condition it was in then or any work done since.
Planning history
No planning application found in the last 3 years for this address.
Estimate the cost of work you're considering
No live planning permission is on file for this address, so there's nothing to price directly — pick the kind of work you're weighing up instead, using the same cost ranges this site applies to real Jersey planning applications.
The work type shown is inferred automatically from the wording of the planning application's own description — it isn't stated by the applicant. The base cost range comes from published UK national renovation/build-cost guides for that type of project, and a ~25% uplift has been added to reflect higher shipping/import and skilled-labour costs in the Channel Islands — this is an estimate, not a published index. These figures are indicative only, not a quote: actual cost depends on specification, finish, ground conditions and the contractor. For anything serious, get a quote from a local quantity surveyor or builder.
See the 27 architects, structural engineers and builders working in Jersey. This can't be narrowed to firms who've filed nearby this property or this parish — Jersey's planning register carries no applicant, agent or architect field to match against (see the professionals directory).
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