Condell’s House began in the building which is now known as Selwyn. This building began as a Master’s House.  Designed by Thomas Cane (the same architect who designed the Lyttelton Time Ball Station) and built by Isaac Luck (one time partner of Benjamin Mountfort), it was completed in 1879.  Thomas De Renzy Condell who had been a Master since 1867 and pupil number 123 (1860-67) was appointed the first Housemaster.  He had about twenty boarders until 1893, when it reverted back to being a Master’s House alone.

In 1918  it became “Jenkins House” and  until 1935  when it became a dayboy waiting House, it was alternately a Master’s and a Boarding House. In 1940 it resumed the name “ Condell’s”  and it  remained that  way until 1960, when Corfe House was also accommodated within the building.

The Condell's House tie shows the two facing angels  which were part of the original College Seal, with an outline that reflects the shape of the House windows.

In 2002 Corfe moved across Rolleston Avenue to the new Dayboy Houses in Gloucester Street.   The original building was renamed Selwyn after George Augustus Selwyn, the First Warden of Christ’s College and the only Anglican Bishop of the whole of New Zealand.