What is recorded here

Castle Wynd still holds Argyll's Lodging, a seventeenth-century town house that became a hospital before it sheltered young travellers. It is easy to imagine feverish doctors sharing rooms with restless adolescents, the building learning both purposes without forgetting either. Stirling keeps that change intact because memory needs more than one use to remain alive.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Stirling, Castle Wynd, Argyll's Lodging as Hospital (first World War), Hospital (19th Century), Town House (17th Century), Youth Hostel (20th Century). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Argyll's Lodging in Stirling, Castle Wynd, was originally a town house, later used as a hospital in the 19th and 20th centuries, and as a youth hostel in the 20th century. It is remembered for its long and varied use in serving public and community needs over several centuries.

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