The white three-storey Old Court House Inn facing St Aubin's harbour, with its name on the front and a smaller Gothic-windowed wing

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The Old Court House Inn

St Aubin's Harbour, St Brelade, Jersey JE3 8AB

Grade C · TraditionTrading · checked Oct 2026

The Old Court House Inn is locally dated 1450. No earlier record has been found.

Claimed: 1450
First record: none found
Building: c.1611

The building. Merchant's house of 1611 built by Pierre Seale, five bays and two storeys over a large cellar: the ground-floor hall fireplace has a lintel cut 1611 PS and a cellar fireplace one cut 16 PS 68; the two eastern bays were turned round to face the sea and refronted in the 19th century and the west range raised a storey (Jersey Historic Environment Record).

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How old is it, really?

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Hatched: 576 years claimed with no document found yet. Diamond: the standing building, dated from its fabric to about 1611.

The claim

Overlooking St Aubin's harbour, this inn combines a merchant's house with an older court house behind, said to date from 1450. Its cellars once held privateers' plunder, and prize cargoes were divided in what is now the restaurant. A deep well, a defensive granite spiral stair and log fires add character, with ten bedrooms above.

What the records show

The 1450 is Visit Jersey's, which says the rear building, the original court house, has parts dating back to 1450. The Liberation Group, which runs the inn, claims only history dating back to the 15th century, and CAMRA's Channel Islands guide says about 400 years old. Sources disagree and no documentary date for inn use was found.

Dated evidence for The Old Court House Inn, earliest first
Year	What	Source
1450	Claimed founding	Local history
c.1611	Present building	Jersey Historic Environment Record (Jersey Heritage), heritage asset 0100180

What to look for inside

Former Admiralty prize court room
27-foot well in the floor
Bar made from a tender of the yacht Westward

Visiting

The Old Court House Inn is in St Aubin, Jersey, at St Aubin's Harbour, St Brelade, Jersey JE3 8AB. We do not list opening times, because they change; the pub’s own site is the place to check before you set out.

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