Havilland Hall is the largest privately owned estate on the island of

Guernsey Guernsey ( ; Guernésiais: ''Guernési''; ) is the second-largest island in the Channel Islands, located west of the Cotentin Peninsula, Normandy. It is the largest island in the Bailiwick of Guernsey, which includes five other inhabited isl ...

, and lies close to

Saint Peter Port St. Peter Port () is a town and one of the ten parishes on the island of Guernsey in the Channel Islands. It is the capital of the Bailiwick of Guernsey as well as the main port. The population in 2019 was 18,958. St. Peter Port is a small tow ...

. A branch of the

de Havilland family The de Havilland family is an Anglo- Norman family, belonging to landed gentry that originated from mainland Normandy and settled in Guernsey in the Middle Ages.Sir Bernard Burke, ''Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great ...

resided at Havilland Hall for many years. The current house was built in 1830 for Lt Col Thomas de Havilland. It is home to the British property developer David Rowland, and in 2005,

Prince Andrew Prince Andrew, Duke of York (Andrew Albert Christian Edward; born 19 February 1960) is a member of the British royal family. He is the third child and second son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and a younger broth ...

unveiled a life-size bronze statue there of Rowland smoking a cigar in a "vaguely Churchillian pose".

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*https://www.priaulxlibrary.co.uk/articles/article/autobiography-thomas-fiott-de-havilland-engineer-and-architect {{coord missing, Channel Islands Buildings and structures in Saint Peter Port