In a Grade II listed neo-Georgian two-storey building designed in 1913 by Adshead and Ramsey on the Duchy of Cornwall estate in Kennington, a babies' hostel was opened in 1916.[2] For a brief period at the end of World War I, it became the Maxillo-Facial Hospital for wounded soldiers.[3][4] In 1919, it reverted to its original purpose as a children's nursery.