St Ninian's Hospital, Kingcase is a Grade B listed building in the South Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 April 1971. Historical site.

St Ninian's Hospital, Kingcase

WRENN ID
peeling-mullion-soot
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
South Ayrshire
Constituency
Central Ayrshire MP: Alan Gemmell (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 April 1971
Type
Historical site
OS grid reference
NS 346 247
Coordinates
55.48883, -4.61856
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Fragments remain on a small green of St Ninian's Hospital, a charitable institution founded by Robert Bruce in gratitude for his recovery from sickness after drinking the waters of a well here.

Local climate

St Ninian's Hospital, Kingcase sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,520 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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