Spittal's Hospital, 54 Spittal Street, Stirling is a Grade B listed building in the Stirling local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1965. Hospital.

Spittal's Hospital, 54 Spittal Street, Stirling

WRENN ID
waning-sentry-gilt
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Stirling
Constituency
Stirling and Strathallan MP: Chris Kane (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 November 1965
Type
Hospital
OS grid reference
NS 793 935
Coordinates
56.11976, -3.94147
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Spittal's Hospital, located at 54 Spittal Street in Stirling, is a 17th-century building that has undergone extensive alterations and was restored in 1959. It is a two-storey structure with a basement, situated on sloping ground, and features six bays. The exterior is roughly stuccoed with painted margins and includes a conical-roofed round stair tower with projecting cills.

On the south elevation facing Spittal Street, the stair tower is positioned to the left of center, featuring an entrance on its west face, a small window on its east face, and a window on the first floor. To the left of the stair tower, there is a small window, with another window above it, and additional windows at both the ground and first floors in the outer bay. To the right, there are windows at the ground and first floors across three bays, along with a door and a small basement window in the outer right.

The north elevation facing Baker Street is harled and consists of four bays with the stair tower on the outer left. The ground level has six bays, with four small blocked windows at the center and a large blocked opening to the right. The entrance is located on the west face of the stair tower at ground level, accompanied by a blocked window on its north face. The upper levels display regular fenestration, with two blocked windows slightly below the first floor and two smaller blocked windows slightly below the second floor.

Local climate

Spittal's Hospital, 54 Spittal Street, Stirling sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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