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This series is related to the buildings on the School campus and documents their history. Most of the collection is made of photographs and artwork, as well as architectural plans. Each sub-series focusses on a different building.

This collection contains material relating to the history of the houses and their pupils. Each series is focused on a different house and many contain rich and detailed photographic records of houses year by year. Some houses are more detailed than others.

Other highlights of this collection include house handbooks, which help to induct a pupil into a house and its daily routine; photographs of daily life, including house events and leisure time; and administrative documents such as house diaries which record the calendar of house events, achievements of pupils, and accounts of incidents.

Included in this sub-fonds are houses which are no longer in existence such as Johnsons and Ruddles.

This series focuses on various dedication and rededication services since the opening of the School Chapel. Most items are orders of services.

A collection of documents, including photographs and commemorative plaques, relating to the School's cricket pavilions on Doncaster Close since the 19th century.

This sub-series focuses on photographs of boys in School House since the 1940s.

This series relates to Hodge Wing, the pupils and staff and the history of the building. The series focuses on the early years as a boys' house.
Hodge Wing was a Boys’ day house, for Lower and Middle School. It became a girls’ house in the Winter term 1975, until the Spring term 1980 when the girls moved to Rushebrookes. Then it was re-opened for a small number of Seventh form girls in 1986.

This sub-series focuses on various items related to the history of Hodge Wing.

A bound copy of several Oakhamian Magazines from 1949 to 1954.

A record book, from Winter term 1949 to Winter term 1963, recording facts and figures concerning the School House boys, including Heads of House and Prefects, sports teams, roll calls, inter-house results, society and club members.

A photographic album of the school (but mainly of Wharflands house) from the Talbot-Griffiths era. Photographs of various staff members, buildings, House prefects, scouts, sporting photos (steeplechase, water-polo, rugby), House photos (Wharflands), Drama photos (Midsummer's Nights Dream and Macbeth 1953), The 1953 Elizabethan Fair, Form 4A photo (1951 and 1953), The choir, the Memorial Library opening, a christening, the visit to RCAF N.Luffenham Swindells, and the proclamation of Queen Elizabeth II.