Photo Gallery

1787 — Daniel de Lisle Brock, future Bailiff of Guernsey, was 25 and about to begin his public career. The Brock family had owned Brockhurst for nearly fifty years.

1898 — the year Captain Francis Dugmore died in Mombasa under dramatic circumstances. His wife Emily Brougham was living at Brockhurst on private means.

1938 — two years before the German invasion. The McCave family would shelter at Brockhurst throughout the five-year Occupation (1940–45).

The symmetrical Georgian facade of Brockhurst, one of the finest 18th-century townhouses in St Peter Port.

The front garden of Brockhurst on The Grange — described in 1826 as 'the best part in the vicinity of the town.'

The veranda at Brockhurst, showing the layering of Georgian and later Victorian additions.

The 20th-century conservatory, later replaced during the 2013–15 restoration by a flat-roofed Georgian-style orangery.

Detail of the Brockhurst gable — the granite stonework typical of Georgian St Peter Port.

The McCave family, who owned Brockhurst from the 1920s to 1974 and remained throughout the German Occupation.

The gardens at Brockhurst during the McCave era — the family's seed and fertiliser business helped Guernsey islanders cultivate vital crops during the Occupation.

The 1991 States of Guernsey £1 note, bearing the portrait of Daniel de Lisle Brock — Bailiff of Guernsey 1821–1842 and Brockhurst's most distinguished resident.

Brockhurst following the 2013–15 restoration by architects CCD and builders CA Duquemin — described as 'unique because of the superior quality and quantity' of its original historic fabric.