During this period rooms in the main house were placed at the disposal of the locals. These were used as a school for local children from 6 to 11 with a teacher who used to arrive by the nearby train station in the valley. The school children used to meet her on a Monday morning and would each carry a piece of wood up to the house to heat the room during lessons.

The house still has a small chapel where a local priest would come and perform Sunday mass.During school closure the classrooms were used by local wild boar hunters to celebrate the daily hunt. The meat would be shared and the wives would cook and prepare for an evening of celebration and tales of the hunt.