It is also known as "the White Cottage" because of its whitewashed walls and vault, and its distinctive appearance makes it an informal daymark for sailors.
Today the National Trust for Jersey, which owns the building, calls it Le Don Hilton.
Later it was known as Corps-de-Garde du Milieu dans la Baie de St Ouen and early C19 military reports refer to the building as the Middle Battery Magazine.
In 1975 his widow, Mrs Marie Geneviève Hilton, donated the cottage, together with four vergées (a French acre), to the National Trust for Jersey.
[2] The north side has a window with a surround made partly of brick, and probably dates to the late 19th or early 20th century.