Ailsa Hospital

Ailsa Hospital is a mental health facility located in the southeastern outskirts of Ayr, South Ayrshire, Scotland.

[1][2] In 1864, the Dundee-based architectural practice Edward and Robertson won the commission to build the hospital.

Construction began in 1868 and the hospital opened as the Ayrshire District Asylum on 28 July 1869.

[3] Two villas were completed in 1899 and a separate hospital block, designed by John Bennie Wilson, was added in 1906.

[1][2][9][10] The hospital is also the base for older adults liaison psychiatry.