The facility has its origins in the Holborn Union Infirmary, which was designed by Henry Saxon Snell and opened in 1879.

[1] In 1928, the hospital took over the Prudential Assurance Company's Furnival House hostel for domestic servants in Cholmeley Park for use as a nurses' home.

[1] It became the Archway Wing of the Whittington Hospital on the establishment of the NHS in 1948.

[1][4] In 1998, the Archway Wing was jointly purchased by University College London and Middlesex University to form the Archway campus.

The teaching and research facility closed in 2013 and the site was sold to the Peabody Trust for redevelopment.