LeDonHilton
Hand-crafted in the beautiful harbour village of St Aubin in the island of Jersey, this piece is from the Jersey collection. It is made from silver finish metal with enamel and acrylic paints and mounted in a silver wooden frame. The framed piece measures 17.3cm x 17.3cm.
Le Don Hilton, also known as “The White House” and “The White Cottage” sits on the seawall besides Le Chemin de L’Ouzière, La Grande Route des Mielles (known locally as “Five Mile road”), in St Peter, Jersey.
The first mention of the building is in 1665 under the name of St. Peter’s Guard House and Magazine. At the time, the parishes of St Ouen and St Peter shared the responsibility for the defence of the bay. The original building blew up and the present building, with its stone vaulted roof, dates from 1765. Later it was known as Corps-de-Garde du Milieu dans la Baie de St Ouen and early nineteenth century military reports refer to the building as the Middle Battery Magazine., It remained in use as a magazine until the end of the Napoleonic wars in 1815.
In 1815 Marie Best and her children took refuge in the cottage during a smallpox epidemic. After Marie died in 1832, the building fell into decay. In 1925 the War Department sold the building to Mr. William Gregory on 21 November 1925. Captain John Ashton Hilton then acquired the cottage in 1932. In 1975 his widow, Mrs Marie Geneviève Hilton, donated the cottage, together with four vergées (a French acre), to the National Trust for Jersey. The name "Le Don Hilton" means "the Hilton Gift"..
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