Barbourne Lodge The house stood on the south side of Barbourne Brook. Fanny Burney called it 'Barebones'. In the latter half of the 19th century it became a 'pest house' or fever hospital. When Newtown Road Hospital opened a fierce argument in Council developed whether it should be burnt down to kill any remaining infection. Eventually, in 1905, it was deliberately burnt down by order of the Council.
The home of Richard Burney in the 18th Century