The land on which the Village Hall now stands was purchased in 1914 for the sum of £45 by Captain Robert Alexander, Arthur Cooper, Cecil Tomkins, and Edward Butler all residents of Sissinghurst who then gave it to the village.

The builkding itself is thought to have been donated by the Alexander family of Great Swifts who at the time used the ‘hut’ as a family overflow of museum items, including a stuffed bird collection now in the Cranbrook Museum. After the First World War the Hall became a Returned Serviceman’s Club and a meeting point for the Air Raid Patrol. During the Second World War Red Cross volunteers used the Hall as a base and it also became a billet for troops prior to the D-Day landings. (1)

<1> 2023?, Photographic Building Record of St George's Institute Building, The Street, Sissinghurst (Unpublished document). SKE55324.