The school was located at a Victorian mansion centered on a 15-acre campus.

[1] The building which the school occupied, Battenhall Mount, dates back to the Victorian period and was built during the 1860s.

It was taken over by Sir Percy Allsopp who extended the building, modeling it after the Italianate style popularised by Prince Albert.

It was one of many stately mansions used as a convalescent home-cum-hospital during World War I.

The Sisters of St Marie Madeleine Postel from St Joseph's Convent School in Reading bought the property in 1934 and turned it into a school.