Brook Lodge

Brook Lodge

Brook Lodge in 2005

The house we know as Brook Lodge was originally built as the vicarage for Bourne in 1776 by the Rev Humphrey Hyde who was Vicar of Bourne from 1763 until 1807, and stands at the end of Church Walk but the frontage is on a bend in South Street. It was replaced by a new vicarage in 1849 and in later years was used as a doctor's surgery but is now converted into flats.

The exterior has been rendered and whitewashed and the entire building and surrounds have a dilapidated air and the house has therefore lost much of its grandeur from past times. South Lodge further along however has retained its original 19th century appearance of red brick with ashlar quoins and a blue slate roof and therefore remains a substantial and attractive house.

Photo courtesy Michael McGregor
Brook Lodge pictured from Church Walk circa 1962

South Street double bend

Brook Lodge stands on the notorious bend in South Street on the approaches to Bourne, pictured here in 2003 (above) and in quieter times in 1975 (below), before the demolition of the mud and stud cottage that had stood at the roadside for 250 years.

South Street in 1975