Longmore House, formerly Longmore Hospital, on Salisbury Place, Newington, Edinburgh, is the headquarters of

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. The property is designated a Category B

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History

The hospital has its origins in a facility commissioned by the newly-formed Edinburgh Association for Incurables which opened in Salisbury Place in 1875. The trustees decided to rebuild the facility, financed by a bequest from John Longmore and using a neoclassical design by

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: the new building was completed in December 1880. A new East Wing was opened by the

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and Princess Mary in 1891 and the West Wing was completed in 1899. In 1903 the Edinburgh Association for Incurables received a

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and, after the

Liberton Hospital Liberton Hospital is a facility for geriatric medicine on Lasswade Road in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Lothian. History The hospital, which was designed by John Dick Peddie and George Washington Browne opened in 1906. It operated in ...

opened in 1906, the two hospitals together became known as the Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Incurables. The hospital joined the

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in 1948. After services transferred to the

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, the hospital closed in 1991. The building was converted to offices for

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in 1994 and, since 2015, has been occupied by its successor organisation,

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History

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