First depicted on the 1999 Cities Revealed OS data this nursing home is situated on a plot occupied from the 1891 to 1973 Ordnance Survey maps by high density back to backs and open courts. The 1985 OS depicts cleared ground. Prior to 1851 this area is depicted as surveyed enclosure plots of which there is currently no legibility. Previously part of Woodthorpe Common (possibly part of the Handsworth Enclosure Act of 1808 - see English 1985, 63 for date)