On its closure the building was demolished and the site returned to residential use, being covered in a development of smaller but still up-market houses.
Built
as Oatlands in 1893 for German banker, George
Zwilgmeyer, on land that was becoming available
as the Sundridge Park estate was broken up,
this style of house was already becoming old
fashioned.
Large and brooding, there was a growing surplus
of this type of accommodation even in very
affluent areas such as Bickley. Becoming vacant
shortly before the first world war, its future
lay in institutional use.
Carn Brea, a school for boys aged from 8 to
14 and one of many medium sized private schools
that operated in the district between the
wars, opened in 1923 and survived for 50 years.
