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The 1968 buildings include a 25m, 6 lane swimming pool and dining hall shared with Colet Court.

Extensive sports facilities notably included a fencing salle, five fives courts and three squash courts.

The location next to the River Thames meant that a rowing boathouse was included in the plans, which itself included both an indoor training tank and housing to accommodate a boatman, whose primary job was to build and maintain the boats.

A striking and deliberate omission from the new buildings was any provision for a school hall capable of holding all masters and boys simultaneously, and although the main sports hall is large enough to accommodate the entire school, the difficulty in setting up enough chairs means that the hall is used to house the entire school only twice per year.

There were originally two boarding houses in the 1968 buildings ( School House and High House ) accommodating up to 120 boarders, but the number of boarders has steadily declined since then and is now only 20.

One of the boarding houses has been demolished to make way for a new music building, which houses the Wathen Hall.

The only building which remained from the previous Water Board landowners became the music department for Colet Court.