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31 Salisbury Road, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9382 / 55°56'17"N

Longitude: -3.1764 / 3°10'35"W

OS Eastings: 326611

OS Northings: 672306

OS Grid: NT266723

Mapcode National: GBR 8SL.2T

Mapcode Global: WH6ST.50PJ

Plus Code: 9C7RWRQF+7C

Entry Name: 31 Salisbury Road, Edinburgh

Listing Name: 31 Salisbury Road, Former Longmore Hospital, Nurses' Home

Listing Date: 15 November 1991

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 371088

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30274

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Edinburgh, 31 Salisbury Road

ID on this website: 200371088

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

J Douglas Miller, 1938-1947. Monumental, symmetrical, 5-storey block. Polished ashlar cladding to front and side elevations; ferro-concrete frame; Atlas white cement to E-plan rear with harled elevations; SE and SW angles dramatically raked.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 5-bay, each bay containing paired single windows; centre bay recessed with ground floor canopy and balconied eaves gallery linking advanced projecting bays. Entrance to centre at ground floor which is slightly in advance of more deeply recessed upper floors. Centre bay from 1st floor; slightly advanced and tapered breaking wallhead in block-parapet.

N ELEVATION: strip-glazing; vertically-glazed stair bays at E and W arms; horizontal glazing to return rear elevations.

E AND W ELEVATIONS: pair single windows to all floors.

Single windows; lower casements and 2-pane top hoppers; taller ground floor windows with transoms; strip-glazing to rear.

INTERIOR: plain 1930s fittings; parquet flooring; recreation hall with grid-glazed flat roof.

Statement of Interest

Dean of Guild Court plans approved on 11 November 1938; building progress interrupted by the Second World War; building work finally completed 1947. Built in the health and leisure-conscious spirit of many 1930's public buildings- for nursing staff outside the precincts of the hospital so that "social instincts could find room for development in a free atmosphere" (72nd Annual Report, Royal Hospital for Incurables, 1947, chapter III, HEALTH BOARD ARCHIVE).

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