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Tanfield House remembers a tannery which once stood here on the banks of the Water of Leith.  The present structure is the Standard Life building and was opened in 1991 by the Queen.  It takes its name from the previous building on the site, Tanfield Hall, which is remembered as being the place where the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland was first assembled, after leaving St Andrew’s George Street in protest at state interference in parochial affairs.