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A photograph of the construction of Haywoods house on Kilburn Road.

A collection of documents, mostly photographs, of the boarding house Haywoods on Kilburn Road, next to Chapmans. This new house was named after Colonel Tom Haywood, former Trustee. The boys previously in residence in Deanscroft moved into their new house in September 1989.

A photograph in black and white of Lincoln, the duo-decagonal house on the Jerwoods campus in 1986.

A collection of documents relating to Round House, the first purpose-built girls’ boarding house, built in 1972 on what was School House tennis court. The Architect, Tom E. Wilson, designed a building in the shape of a Dovecote, or a Birdcage. The builders were George Duxbury (OO, '34) and Sons. The new house contained thirty bed-sitters on three floors, built around a central spiral stairway. A common room linked the new building with the War Memorial Library. At the back of the Library were built a small flat and domestic offices. Sixty girls moved in from the beginning of the 1972 Winter term and the boarding house was officially opened on 28 October 1972 by Mrs Haywood.

This file focusses on art work of Round House.

A watercolour painting of Round House by Alan Oliver.

Two photographs in black and white of the entrance and new extension of Buchanans house in the 1980s.

This file focusses on photographs of Rushebrookes house since its construction in 1980.

This file focusses on photographs of Buchanans, formerly Orchard Close, in the 1980s and 1990s. Some of those photographs were taken for marketing purposes, including publication in the Oakham School Magazine.

A collection of documents, mostly photographs, of Rushebrookes, the third purpose-built boarding house for girls, adjacent to Buchanans house, on the land purchased in 1977. The new house was named after the school’s first headmaster, Robert Rushebrooke. The first girls moved in over Spring half-term 1980 but the opening ceremony only took place later that year, on 22 November.