Houses
The school consists of seven senior boarding houses:
| House | Colour | Built | Namesake |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baxter | Grey | 1990 | Richard Baxter, a 17th Century Puritan Minister |
| Dudley | Purple | 1984 | the Earls of Dudley, the family who bought the Foley's estate of Witley Court |
| Foley | Green | 1982 | Thomas Foley, the founder of the School |
| Foster | Red | A prominent local family (see James Foster) | |
| Maybury | Royal Blue | William Maybury, headmaster from 1883–1928 | |
| Potter | Sky Blue | 2009 | Chris Potter, headmaster from 1978 until 2001 |
| Witley | Yellow | 1983 | Witley Court, the Foley family mansion |
There is one junior boarding house: Prospect House named after its location on Prospect Hill in Stourbridge.
Before the houses were associated with buildings, there was also a Lyttelton house, named after the Lyttelton family who built nearby Hagley Hall. Katherine Lady Lyttelton and her son Sir Henry Lyttelton, sold the manor of Old Swinford to Thomas Foley in 1661.
Read more about this topic: Old Swinford Hospital
Famous quotes containing the word houses:
“Trust him to have his bitter politics
Against his unacquaintances the rich
Who sleep in houses of their own, though mortgaged.
Conservatives, they don’t know what to save.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Let those talk of poverty and hard times who will in the towns and cities; cannot the emigrant who can pay his fare to New York or Boston pay five dollars more to get here ... and be as rich as he pleases, where land virtually costs nothing, and houses only the labor of building, and he may begin life as Adam did? If he will still remember the distinction of poor and rich, let him bespeak him a narrower house forthwith.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Midway the lake we took on board two manly-looking middle-aged men.... I talked with one of them, telling him that I had come all this distance partly to see where the white pine, the Eastern stuff of which our houses are built, grew, but that on this and a previous excursion into another part of Maine I had found it a scarce tree; and I asked him where I must look for it. With a smile, he answered that he could hardly tell me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)