A location on the Gogar Burn in the west of the City of Edinburgh Council Area, this former estate is today best known for the Royal Bank of Scotland Headquarters, which includes the B-listed Gogarburn House. The Royal Bank of Scotland campus opened in 2005 at a cost of £400 million and was extended in 2019. Gogarburn House dates from 1811, was extensively modified in 1893-96 by James Jerdan. The estate was bought by Edinburgh Corporation and the house used as a convalescent home for children, and then became an asylum for the mentally handicapped in 1924. It grew to become a self-sustaining 'colony' modelled on Bangour Village Hospital, with its own farm at Kellerstain to provide work and food for the residents. Residents lived in villas, each with 50 patients under the supervision of a housekeeper. Part of the site was used as an 'emergency hospital' during the Second World War. Thereafter, it returned to serve patients with mental illness, emphasising occupational therapy and training. A Children's Unit was added in 1972. The hospital closed in 1999 and most of the buildings were demolished. It is commemorated by a memorial in the northeast of the RBS campus.
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