Pleneuf Court

My blip today is of a property currently called Pleneuf court, but often known by locals as 'The chain house'. I blipped the chimney stack of this property some months ago. As it is a rather unusual house, I have unearthed a bit of its history.
Records of the property exist dating back to Elizabethan times. It was owned by The Lihou, Le Messurier, Lenfesty and de Havilland families over the years. In the 19th Century it was known as 'Rosenheim'. It was bought in 1842 by the Reverend William Barnes and his wife Rosa together with a barn, stables a garden and adjoining fields. It cost £1200. As owner he was also entitled to a pew near the tower in the parish church and the right to send his children to St. Andrews school.
When William died, Rosa remarried General George Huyshe. It was Rosa who was responsible for the elaborate decoration of the house. In addition to the house decor, the gardens possessed numerous arches and stoneware acquired from other local properties and from holidays abroad. (See here for an interesting old picture of the house). Rosa died in 1892.
Rosenheim changed hands several times until 1932 when it was purchased by a gentleman who called himself the 'Duc de Pleneuf' and it was renamed 'Pleneuf Court'. Apparently he was a remarkable character who was obsessed with his ancestry which he claimed he could trace back to Charlemagne of France and Rollo the first Duke of Normandy ! He married that same year at St Josephs and apparently it was a grand affair with much pageantry, uniforms, jewelry etc. Afterwards, they drove around in a Rolls Royce and lived the high life. There seems to have been some mystery however as apparently there was an article in the Daily Mail in 1933 titled "Who is the Duc de Pleneuf ? Nobleman's Mystery Title". In 1934 while on a Mediteranean cruise the Duc was taken ill and he died in Malta, ending a picturesque episode in Guernsey history.