The Retreat, La Ville Baudu, Vale
Description
The Retreat is a beautifully presented home nestled within the Vale, perfectly combining modern living with charming character features, all while being a short stroll from local amenities.
The ground floor welcomes you through an impressive entrance hall with vaulted ceilings and an abundance of natural light. A separate reception room provides a comfortable retreat and benefits from double doors leading to the outside space. There is also a practical utility room and W.C. The heart of the home is undoubtably the stunning open-plan kitchen, dining and living area. Featuring exposed beams, and a working fireplace.
On the first floor, a bright and airy landing, a spacious double bedroom featuring floor-to-ceiling windows with two large skylights, a further versatile bedroom which could be utilities as a study, a contemporary family bathroom. The property also benefits from a superb principal bedroom complete with fitted storage and a modern en-suite shower room. Throughout the first floor, all bedrooms are enhanced by stylish fitted furniture and excellent built in storage solutions.
Externally, the home benefits from private, secure parking and an attractive graveled garden to the rear, providing a perfect space for relaxing and entertaining.
Available immediately, internal viewings highly recommended by Cherry Godfrey Property.
Not marked as sole agency on the original listing, so this property may also be marketed by other agents not captured in this data.
A useful first look
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What would improving it be worth?
Value added is the extra floor area priced at £6,271/m² — the midpoint asking price per m² among 10 St Sampson properties currently for sale that publish a floor area. Cost uses real Guernsey build rates: £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 Guernsey actually grants that kind of application.
| Improvement | Value it might add | Likely cost | Net | Granted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Add a bedroom (single-storey extension) A modest double plus circulation, built new. ~14 m² |
£87,790 | £70,000 14 m² · mid spec new build range £56,000–£84,000 |
+£17,790 | 97% (1,533) |
| 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 |
£125,414 | £60,000 20 m² · mid spec refurb range £40,000–£80,000 |
+£65,414 | 97% (153) |
| Two-storey extension Roughly 14 m² on each of two floors. ~28 m² |
£175,580 | £140,000 28 m² · mid spec new build range £112,000–£168,000 |
+£35,580 | 93% (87) |
| Garage, annexe or outbuilding Detached space is worth less per m² than main-house floor area. ~18 m² |
£67,724 | £90,000 18 m² · mid spec new build range £72,000–£108,000 |
−£22,276 | 90% (761) |
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, because Guernsey's sold register records no floor areas at all — so it reflects what sellers ask, not what buyers paid.
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 around £430,000 island-wide. It isn't — a 4-bed is generally 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 — who is actually filing applications shows which firms are active and how often their applications succeed.
Building work on this property
Architects with planning applications on file in the same parish as this property — not a claim any of them worked on this specific property, just a proximity signal:
Same estimate model this site uses on its planning pages (Channel Islands-adjusted UK cost ranges) — a rough starting point, not a quote. Always get quotes from a Guernsey builder before budgeting.
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Sale history
| Sale date | Price | At 2026 prices | Address on register |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-12-12 | £487,500 | £748,069 +53% | THE RETREAT LES GIGANDS ST SAMPSONS |
| 2013-12-12 | £502,705 | £694,746 +38% | THE RETREAT LES GIGANDS ST SAMPSONS |
| 2009-10-06 | £418,000 | £683,506 +64% | THE RETREAT LES GIGANDS ST SAMPSONS was WELIVEHERETOO |
Matched by house name/street and parish against the States of Guernsey property register — not a unique-ID lookup, so a shared house name could span more than one property. The "2026 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.
All 46 recorded sales on Ville Baudu
Planning history
| Application | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| FULL/2026/1033 | Alterations to fenestration of existing outbuilding. | Granted Application details Official record Decision notice (PDF) |
Matched by house name/street and parish against Guernsey planning applications decided between 25 Aug 2021 and 29 Sept 2026 — coverage is partial and not a unique-ID lookup. No bare decision date is available in this data, so the application number (which embeds its year) is shown instead. Where a "Worked on by" name appears, it's a known architect or surveyor cross-referenced by the same application number — worth a call before commissioning a fresh survey.
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Estimated cost of live planning permissions
Guernsey planning permissions lapse 3 years after grant if unbuilt; these applications fall inside that window and were not refused, so they are presumptively still capable of being implemented.
- FULL/2026/1033 — Garage / outbuilding / annexe
£31,250–£56,250Alterations to fenestration of existing outbuilding.
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.
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