L'Etoile Du Matin, La Ruette Julienne, Castel, GY5 7LB
Description
This striking modern family home occupies an enviable elevated position above the West Coast, commanding panoramic views across the surrounding landscape. Presented in true walk-in condition, the property offers great natural light and is thoughtfully designed to fully appreciate the spectacular outlook from the principal living areas.<br/><br/>The accommodation begins with an entrance porch leading into a generous and welcoming reception lobby with excellent storage. This floor opens into an impressive sitting room, where large picture windows perfectly frame the coastal view. The fully fitted kitchen/dining room provides an ideal space for both everyday living and opens out to the rear garden. Also on this floor is bedroom two with en-suite shower room, a cloakroom, utility room, and a spacious primary suite complete with en-suite bathroom and doors opening directly onto the rear terrace. Stairs lead to the lower floor where you will find bedroom three with a further en-suite, a separate cinema room, store room, rear porch, and a dedicated study. This level offers excellent flexibility and could easily function as a self-contained unit if desired.<br/><br/>Externally, there is a paved driveway providing parking for approximately three/four vehicles, steps lead to the front entrance and access around the side of the house. To the rear, a newly installed infinity swim/spa pool which is complemented by a beautifully laid decked terrace - the perfect setting to relax and enjoy the sunset views. There is also an additional access point from the road and an adjacent field which further enhances the appeal of this home.<br/><br/>A superb coastal property presented in immaculate condition, offering style, space, and outstanding views.
Combined from 3 agents’ own descriptions of this property — see “Also listed by” below for each agent’s original wording.
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Nearby
- GP surgeryLongfrie Surgery1.9 mi · 40 min walk · 6 min drive
- DentistUnnamed dentist1.4 mi · 30 min walk · 4 min drive
- SupermarketWaitrose3.6 mi · 78 min walk · 12 min drive
- PubThe Club1.1 mi · 24 min walk · 4 min drive
- RestaurantThe Dining Room1.1 mi · 25 min walk · 4 min drive
- CaféRichmond Beach Kiosk0.65 mi · 14 min walk · 2 min drive
- Petrol stationLe Mont Saint0.14 mi · 3 min walk · 0 min drive
- AirportGuernsey Airport2.3 mi · 8 min drive
Nearest match in each category, from a fixed list of Guernsey 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 Guernsey's roads and 25/35mph 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.
Price per square metre
£3,600,000 over 310 m² is £11,613 per m². Compared with other properties currently for sale that publish a floor area — the percentage is this property against that group's midpoint:
Floor area comes from the States of Guernsey property register via the agent's own listing, and covers the whole property. Comparisons are drawn from asking prices of properties currently for sale, not achieved sale prices — the Guernsey sold register records no floor areas at all, so a sold £/m² cannot be calculated from it. Sample sizes are shown in brackets; small groups move a lot. This is context for a conversation with an agent, not a valuation.
Telecoms masts nearby
- 356 m — Rue a l\'Or/Rue des Annevilles, Les Padins, outdoor wall, 44m (JT, Sure)
Measured by the regulator at 0.145% of the ICNIRP public exposure guideline. - 943 m — Hotel Atlantique, monopole, 10m (Airtel)
Measured by the regulator at 0.004% of the ICNIRP public exposure guideline.
The nearest licensed mast site is 356 m away in a straight line — not walking distance, and not necessarily visible from the property. From the Guernsey Competition and Regulatory Authority’s mast audit register, read 2026-08-23.
It does not say which masts carry 5G. The regulator’s register records the operators, the height, the structure and the measured emissions — it records no radio technology, so this site cannot identify a 5G site and does not guess. 5G reached Guernsey in early 2026 and the first sites were in and around St Peter Port.
The emission figures are the regulator’s own measurements, expressed as a percentage of the ICNIRP international public exposure guideline. Across all 91 sites in the Bailiwick the median reading is 0.176% of that guideline and the highest is 11.24%. This site reports those numbers and draws no conclusion from them either way; the GCRA publishes the full audit for each site.
What the numbers on this listing say
- Across 150 sales in the last 24 months that this site could match to their own asking price, Guernsey property achieved a median 87.1% of asking. At that median this one would go for about £3,137,063 — a distribution, not a prediction for this property. See the full spread.
- New to this site 4 days ago. Little negotiating history has built up yet.
- Marketed by 3 agents at once. That is a fact about how it is being sold, not proof of anything about the seller — but it does mean more than one route to the same property. Compare what each says.
- Open Market. Open Market property can be bought by anyone regardless of residency, and prices behave differently from the Local Market — compare like with like. How the two markets differ.
Assembled from this site's own record of the listing and the States of Guernsey sold-price register. It deliberately makes no recommendation and no valuation — it reports what is measurable and leaves the judgement to you.
What this purchase costs beyond the asking price
If this will not be your principal private residence — a second home or a buy-to-let — an additional 2% per band applies, taking the duty to £233,250. Advocates conventionally attribute 2.5% of the price to contents, which carries no duty; on that basis the figure would be about £156,300. The headline above deliberately assumes no such attribution, because understating it is the error that costs you money on completion. Bands are those published for real property conveyances — check the current rules on gov.gg or ask your advocate for the figure that actually applies. This site is not a tax adviser and takes no fee from anyone named on this page.
What it would cost each month
Starts from 5.10% — 5 year fixed rate up to 90% loan to value, published by SPF Private Clients (Channel Islands) Ltd and read by this site on 2026-08-23. See every rate they publish, or change the figure above. It is their published rate, not an offer to you: lenders apply their own income multiples and status checks. This site is paid nothing by any lender or broker and gives no advice. Document duty is calculated from the published band scale; everything else follows from the numbers you type.
Getting connected
Guernsey's copper telephone network is being retired at the end of 2026, and every property on the island is expected to be connectable to the fibre network. In practice that means a purchase completing now will be a fibre connection, and a landline-only arrangement will not survive the switch-off — worth settling before moving day rather than after it.
Three providers sell residential broadband here: Sure, JT, Airtel-Vodafone. Airtel-Vodafone was acquired by Sure in November 2024, so the market is more concentrated than three names suggest.
This site has no per-address availability feed and so makes no claim about the speed or price at this property — check with a provider against the actual address before you rely on it. No provider pays this site anything, and these are ordinary links, not referrals.
What would improving it be worth?
Value added is the extra floor area priced at £8,475/m² — the midpoint asking price per m² among 8 Castel 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 |
£118,657 | £70,000 14 m² · mid spec new build range £56,000–£84,000 |
+£48,657 | 97% (1,510) |
| 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 |
£169,510 | £60,000 20 m² · mid spec refurb range £40,000–£80,000 |
+£109,510 | 97% (148) |
| Two-storey extension Roughly 14 m² on each of two floors. ~28 m² |
£237,313 | £140,000 28 m² · mid spec new build range £112,000–£168,000 |
+£97,313 | 93% (86) |
| Garage, annexe or outbuilding Detached space is worth less per m² than main-house floor area. ~18 m² |
£91,535 | £90,000 18 m² · mid spec new build range £72,000–£108,000 |
+£1,535 | 90% (738) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-03-01 | £2,242,500 | £2,294,504 +2% | L'ETOILE DU MATIN LA RUETTE JULIENNE CASTEL |
| 2018-11-01 | £1,711,125 | £2,520,517 +47% | L'ETOILE DU MATIN LA RUETTE JULIENNE CASTEL |
| 2012-05-17 | £2,055,000 | £2,897,672 +41% | L'ETOILE DU MATIN LA RUETTE JULIENNE CASTEL |
| 2003-10-09 | £600,000 | £1,340,685 +123% | L'ETOILE DU MATIN LA RUETTE JULIENNE CASTEL |
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.
Planning history
| Application | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| FULL/2025/1765 | Install 2 air source heat pumps and garden store/enclosure to west elevation of raised swimming pool area/boundary. | Granted Full record Decision notice (PDF) |
| FULL/2025/1192 | Erect single storey extension to west (rear) elevation. | Granted Full record Decision notice (PDF) |
| FULL/2025/0924 | Change of use of agricultural land to domestic garden (125sqm). Remove section of hedge and erect earth bank to north west boundary. | Refused Full record Decision notice (PDF) |
| FULL/2025/0527 | Remove section of wall and hedge to create temporary vehicle access to south boundary. | Granted Full record Decision notice (PDF) |
| FULL/2024/1849 | Install raised swimming pool/spa with balustrade to north-west boundary, alter ground levels and erect retaining wall to new patio area to w… Worked on by: DLM Architects | Granted Full record Decision notice (PDF) |
| FULL/2022/0669 | Change of use of agricultural land to domestic garden (1,048 sq.m.), remove section of hedge and erect earth bank to north-west. | Refused Full record Decision notice (PDF) |
Matched by house name/street and parish against Guernsey planning applications decided between 25 Aug 2021 and 2 Jul 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.
Search full planning history for this address (live, back to 2009)
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/2025/1765 — Swimming pool
£56,250–£112,500Install 2 air source heat pumps and garden store/enclosure to west elevation of raised swimming pool area/boundary. - FULL/2025/1192 — Single-storey extension
£56,250–£93,750Erect single storey extension to west (rear) elevation. - FULL/2025/0527 — Boundary / access works
£6,250–£18,750Remove section of wall and hedge to create temporary vehicle access to south boundary. - FULL/2024/1849 — Swimming pool
£56,250–£112,500Install raised swimming pool/spa with balustrade to north-west boundary, alter ground levels and erect retaining wall to…
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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