The ruins of the Chailey Heritage Marine Hospital stand to the seaward side of Tide Mills, east of Newhaven, Sussex, in England.
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The hospital was built in 1924, to provide aftercare and recovery for disabled boys who had undergone surgery. Plaques on the site speak of a charitable foundation, the "Guild of the Poor Brave Things", that founded the hospital as part of the Chailey Heritage created by Dame Grace Kimmins in 1903.
The ruins show very weathered concrete foundations onto which were fixed what appear to be wooden buildings. Plaques on the site show beds wheeled into the fresh air - "Nature's Antibiotic". Very close to, and on the landward side of the hospital, was the Lily Warren nurses' home
The beach hospital was part of the Chailey Heritage Hospital and was an extension of the main hospital to try to build strength up in the boys by the spartan conditions and sea bathing, not just for post operative case or for "cripples", but it was also used for asthma cases.