The Kent and Sussex Hospital was built on the site of a mansion called Great Culverden, and was designed by Decimus Burton. It closed on 21 September 2011 and was replaced by the new Pembury Hospital.

The hospital building was designed by Cecil Burns, a local architect, and opened in 1934. The foundation stone had been laid in 1932 by the contemporary Duchess of York, later to become Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. The original building was surrounded by lawns on three sides, but the hospital has expanded upwards and outwards several times over the decades. This included the installation of six wartime emergency huts shortly after the hospital's completion; four of these huts were still in use as wards when the hospital closed, on 21 September 2011.

Click one of the galleries below to see photos from every part of the hospital.