HOME

TheInfoList



Click Here for Items Related To - Ballochmyle Hospital
OR:
Ballochmyle Hospital on:   [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Amazon]

Ballochmyle House is an 18th-century
country house An English country house is a large house or mansion in the English countryside. Such houses were often owned by individuals who also owned a town house. This allowed them to spend time in the country and in the city—hence, for these peopl ...
near Catrine in East Ayrshire, Scotland that was the seat of the Alexander of Ballochmyle family. From 1939 to 2000, it was the location of Ballochmyle Hospital operated by
NHS Ayrshire and Arran NHS Ayrshire and Arran is one of the fourteen regions of NHS Scotland. It was formed on 1 April 2004. It has a responsibility to provide health and social care to almost 400,000 people with an operating budget of around £700 million (for 2013†...
. Following a £5m restoration that began in 2009, it was converted to luxury flats.


History

Ballochmyle House was designed by Robert Adam and completed in 1760 before being substantially rebuilt to a design by Hew Montgomerie Wardrop with assistance from George Mackie Watson in 1887. It was the home of
Wilhelmina Alexander Wilhelmina Alexander (1756–1843), was born at Newton House, Elderslie, Renfrewshire. She was the 4th daughter of Claud Alexander of Newton and Joanna, daughter of Alexander Cuninghame of Craigends. Her lasting fame derives from being Robert B ...
whose lasting fame derives from being Robert Burns's 'The Bonnie Lass o'Ballochmyle' in the song of that title. In 1939, Ballochmyle Hospital was established as one of seven
Emergency Hospital Service During World War II, a centralised state-run Emergency Hospital Service was established in the United Kingdom.Paul Addison, "The Road to 1945", Jonathan Cape, 1975, pp. 178–81. It employed doctors and nurses to care for those injured by enemy act ...
facilities for military casualties when Ballochmyle House was requisitioned from Sir Claud Alexander. The wooden huts which had been erected during the war continued to be used for civilian purposes after the war. After services transferred to East Ayrshire Community Hospital, Ballochmyle Hospital closed in 2000. The house has since been converted into luxury apartments and the site redeveloped for residential use.


See also

*
List of listed buildings in Mauchline, East Ayrshire This is a list of listed buildings in the parish of Mauchline in East Ayrshire, Scotland. List Key See also * List of listed buildings in East Ayrshire Notes References * All entries, addresses and coo ...


References


Sources

*Westwood, Peter J. (2008). ''Who's Who in the World of Robert Burns''. Robert Burns World Federation. . {{authority control Defunct hospitals in Scotland Hospitals in East Ayrshire