Sarah Fox was very upset when the school closed in 1846. Thirty years later a new school was built on the quay in Durgan village by her son-in-law Sir Joseph Pease. This more substantial building evolved into a reading room and is now a holiday cottage.
Recreating the School Room
By the year 2000 all traces of the School Room had vanished. We know that after the school closed it was used in conjunction with fruit growing in the garden and may have housed an apple press.
Thanks to the generosity of visitors and other donors we were able to recreate the building in 2002 with the help of local builders and schoolchildren who helped stamp down the cob walls. Luckily some of the windows from the original building had survived in storage. This enabled us not only to copy them for the remaining windows but also to have original parts of the old building in our new recreation.