Although attention is thought to be spontaneously biased by social cues like faces and eyes, recent data have demonstrated that when stimulus content, visual context, and task factors are controlled, this attentional bias is abolished in manual responses while still occurring infrequently in oculomotor measures. Here, we investigated how social attentional biasing is affected by stimulus novelty by measuring responses to frequently presented face identities (i.e., those with lower novelty) and infrequently presented face identities (i.e., those with higher novelty). Using a dot-probe task, participants were presented with either the same face-house cue pair that was frequently presented on half of the trials or sixteen different face-house cue pairs that were infrequently presented on the other half of the trials. A response target occurred at the previous location of the eyes or mouth of the face or the top or bottom of the house. Experiment 1 measured manual responses to the target while participants maintained central fixation. Experiment 2 additionally measured natural oculomotor behaviour using an eye tracker when eye movements were not restricted. Similar to previous work, no evidence of social attentional biasing was found in manual responses when central fixation was maintained, although there was overall higher alertness to infrequently presented faces. When eye movements were not restricted, there was a short-lived social attentional bias in manual data that was not specific to upright faces and a reliable oculomotor bias towards the eyes of infrequently presented upright faces. Together, these findings suggest that face novelty impacts manual attention measures in a general manner, while facilitating spontaneous oculomotor biasing towards the eyes of upright infrequently presented faces more specifically.