Le Foulon, St Andrew's GY6 8UF
Originally dating back to the 1700’s, Vaux Douit is a charming and characterful home, combining period features with thoughtfully designed modern alterations.
Bordering St Andrews and St Peter Port, the property has been well maintained by the current occupiers. The main house comprises three well-proportioned bedrooms, served by three bath/shower rooms, alongside a welcoming lounge featuring a traditional furze oven. At the heart of the home is an impressive kitchen/living space, perfectly designed for modern family living and entertaining, with doors opening directly onto the patio and swimming pool area.
The adjoining wing with its own front door, has previously benefitted from planning permission for subdivision into a separate unit. It is currently arranged to include a kitchen, utility, wet room/WC, lounge, dining room and two generous bedrooms served by a family bathroom.
A particular highlight are the magnificent grounds which extend to approximately an acre and showcase attractive borders and mature planting, with the feature douit meandering through the gardens.
In the centre of the island is the garden of Guernsey. What the parish lacks in coastline it makes up for in rural pasture, and a Tony Jacklin designed golf course. At its heart St Andrew’s has fields of gold once central to cider making in the island. Its church is affectionately known as St André de la Pommeraye, or St Andrew of the apple orchard, as celebrated each year in good family fashion in the rectory gardens.
There are lovely clusters of granite farmhouses and the Little Chapel’s setting of Vauxbelets means pretty little valleys, watched over by a former monastery, now Blanchelande College. Talbot Valley is even prettier and while it lies predominantly in the Castel, St Andrew’s will point to where it begins.
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