247:, Kilmarnock Infirmary closed in 1982. Following a period of remaining vacant due to refusal to demolish the infirmary building, it was eventually demolished together with the accident and emergency building in the late 1980s. Demolition occurred, despite there being plans to turn the site and building into a nursing home, but these proposals were not granted permission. The listed nurses' home building was demolished under a Dangerous Building Notice in September 1997, following the building suffering severe damage after a fire in 1994.
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wings to the main hospital building. A children's ward was added to the
Kilmarnock Infirmary in 1891, totalling £4,100 to construct. The vast majority of the money used to construct the children's ward was donated to the project by Dowager Lady Howard de Walden. Additions to the ward occurred in 1893, followed by the creation of a new fevers block in 1899.
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After a new clock was completed in 1921, the original building became the nurses' home. Kilmarnock
Infirmary was seen as a hospital which had become largely constrained by its small and prominent town centre location, and discussions began to commence to merge Kilmarnock Infirmary with Ayr County
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