24 years since the closure of B House in the Summer of 2002, the House is making a return as the College's new Day pupil House...

As of September 2026 parents now have the option to choose between three distinctive offerings for Year 9 and Year 11 pupils; Boarding, Day Boarding and Day. Day pupils are being enrolled as members of B House. Distinct from the original boarding house, the new B House will be for Day pupils only, it will be a mixed, girls and boys house and will also have a new tie, teal replacing grey stripes across the College blue.

The new B House will be located at 'Bridge House', following the refurbishment of the medical centre which is relocating to the combined 'Health and Wellness Centre' in the centre of the Boarding Area, ready for September 2027.

This will be the second time Bridge House has been a Boarding House with pupils based there from 1897 to 1916. It then became a guest house for visiting parents and alumni, as well as serving as staff accomodation, until the Health Centre (or Sanatorium) moved there in 1996. You can read more about the history of the Sanatorium here.

The Health Centre will be moving to a new purpose built building located in the heart of the boarding area. The move should be completed, and the new B House opened, by September 2027. If you would like more information about the new Health and Wellness Centre, you can find that here.

Former B House Housemaster Roger Keeley (B 93-02) is delighted to see the return of his former House,

'It seems like only yesterday that fireworks lit up the midnight sky over Quad as we bade farewell to B House and its more than eighty-year history. But this was not yesterday – it was the last night of the Summer term in 2002. The pupils of what by then had subtly been downsized into a Sixth Form house (motto: ‘parvus sed potens’, ‘small but powerful’) had enjoyed a balmy evening of revelry – a barbecue in a recycled oil drum, the notorious watermelon game, the al fresco screening of ‘Goldfinger’ onto some sewn-together bedsheets. Emotional speeches were over, the Lower Sixth braced themselves to be dispersed to other houses, well-wishers had arrived from across the campus bearing farewell offerings of champagne. There wasn’t a dry eye in the House. As the sun rose the next morning over the Pang Valley, the truth finally dawned that B House was no more. However, the spirit of B House would continue to burn as brightly as those fireworks over the next 24 years.

Something inside me always believed that the institution would one day rise like a phoenix from the ashes, reinstating the logic of the opening letters of the Bradfield alphabet. And so, this has come to pass. Let’s raise the loving cup and propose a toast ‘floreat domus pontis’ may Bridge House Flourish!

For more information about the new Day Option and revivial of B House this September, visit the College website