Rhodes House

Rhodes House is an educational establishment built in 1929 by Sir Herbert Baker. It is constructed from coursed Bladon stone rubble with Chipsham dressings and features stone slate hipped roofs behind balustraded parapets, along with ashlar stacks. The building has an H-shaped plan, designed in the 17th-century style of the region. The central range contains a great hall, while the west wing includes reading rooms, a library, and stairs. In the forecourt to the north, there is a Classical rotunda topped with a copper-clad dome and a tetrastyle portico with two columns deep. An open cupola sits over the center of the main range, and the stone mullion-transom windows have leaded panes. The south garden front features a large canted bay window for the hall at the center, flanked by buttresses and carved armorial tablets.

Inside, the portico leads to the stone domed rotunda, which has windows in the drum and columns in antis. From the rotunda, a vaulted anteroom leads to the great hall, which has ashlar walls, an apse at the high end, a gallery supported by pairs of Tuscan columns at the low end, and an arch-braced roof with crown-posts. An axial corridor connects to the wings; the west wing contains reading rooms and a timber open-well staircase with shaped balusters and carved eagle finials. On the first floor, the library, known as the Rosebury Room, features a roof similar to that of the hall.

Rhodes House serves as a memorial to Cecil Rhodes and is the home of the Rhodes Trustees in Oxford. It was established in Cecil Rhodes' will as a center for scholars from the United States, the British Empire, and Germany.