The Kent and Sussex Hospital was a district general hospital located on Mount Ephraim in

Royal Tunbridge Wells Royal Tunbridge Wells is a town in Kent, England, southeast of central London. It lies close to the border with East Sussex on the northern edge of the High Weald, whose sandstone geology is exemplified by the rock formation High Rocks. ...

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serving the West Kent and East Sussex areas. It was managed by the

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large NHS Trust in the English National Health Service that manages hospitals in Kent, primarily managing Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury. It took over the Crowborough Birt ...

until it closed in 2011.

History

The Kent and Sussex Hospital was built on the site of a mansion called Great Culverden House, designed by Decimus Burton. The foundation stone was laid by the Duchess of York in 1932. The hospital building was designed by Cecil Burns, a local architect, and opened in 1934. The original building was surrounded by lawns on three sides, but the hospital expanded upwards and outwards over the decades. This expansion included the installation of six wartime emergency huts shortly after the hospital's completion; four of these huts were still in use as wards into the 21st century.

Closure

Nearby Pembury Hospital was rebuilt as the

Tunbridge Wells Hospital Tunbridge Wells Hospital is a large district general hospital in Pembury near Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, run by the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust. The hospital is located on Tonbridge Road, around to the north-west of Pem ...

in the 2000s. Services were then transferred from the Kent and Sussex Hospital, which closed on 21 September 2011. Planning permission was granted to redevelop the hospital site for a mix of housing, offices and a school in December 2012.

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History

Closure

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