A geriatric hospital with rehabilitation and physiotherapy services for the elderly and stroke patients, Liberton Hospital is located on Lasswade Road in S Edinburgh, 3 miles (5 km) south southeast of the city centre. It comprises 170 beds in eight wards located in a dramatic little white five-storey tower block, framed in orange, with a further 33 beds in two wards comprising a unit specialising in the management of disabling neurological conditions occupying a former cottage hospital adjacent. Finally there is a modern single-storey range which serves as a day hospital and provides out-patient services. The present hospital was opened on 21st November 1968 by HRH Duchess of Kent. The original cottage hospital is by J.M. Dick Peddie (1853 - 1921) & George Washington Browne (1853 - 1939), in light-coloured sandstone with a red-tiled roof, and dates from 1906. It became part of the Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Incurables, along with Longmore Hospital in Newington.
