Building record MDR9934 - Girls' School, King Street, Duffield

A school for girls, with teacher's house, was built in in 1870. The erection was aided by a benefaction from the friends of the late Parking Jeffcock, Esq., as a memorial of his great exertions in the work of education. There is an average attendance of 90 in c. 1895). (1) Village girls school. Built in 1869, by Stevens & Robinson, of rock-faced gritstone. Minimal gothic detail. Banded plain and fishscale tiled roof. (2) North part of building sold in 1989 and converted into a house. (3)