Les Laurentins
Les Laurentins
A small school once existed on the site where Petit Menage, a modern bungalow, currently stands to the west of St Lawrence school in Route de l’Eglise
Oaklands House
The original property, known as Oaklands House, was a two-storey farmhouse with a datestone from 1679 bearing the initials PF, which were incised within a shield shaped frame. This datestone is now located on an outbuilding at Oaklands Farm.
At a later unknown date a dower wing was added to the east end of this property, extending as far as the road. The property had several owners over the years until 1884, when Henry Nicolle Godfray inherited it from his father. He was the last owner of the building before it was demolished. The 1891 census shows that the house was rented by Theodore Le Rendu and his family. The dower wing was occupied by Miss Leah Amy, a school mistress and Alice Hamon, a twelve-year-old, who was living with her, the lower storey being used as a classroom.
The 1901 census shows that Miss Alice Hamon was now the schoolmistress, but her little school was to close down in 1903 when most of the pupils transferred to the new St Lawrence School, which opened that year.
The whole property was still standing until the early part of the last century. When it had become dilapidated it was dismantled and all that remained was a little bit of wall along the roadside which now makes the garden wall of Petit Menage. Some of the stones from the building were used to build the lych-gate at St Lawrence Parish Church, which was built in 1910 in memory of Jennet Susannah Balleine, of La Folie, Millbrook. Additional stones were used to build outbuildings at Albion House, as well as the outbuilding at Oaklands Farm.
