.Records of Burgh House date back to 1797 when the executors of John Chapman, Surgeon, deceased, who had originally had the house built,
sold the property to William Cooke of Burgh and upon his death on the 6th August 1831 the house passed down to his son also a William Cooke. William Cooke Jnr died thirteen years later in 1844, but his wife Margaret Cooke (formerly Martha Holland of Carrington) survived him and continued living there with her four children, three of whom died within the following two years.
The remaining daughter Mary Elizabeth Cooke married Smith William Stephen Hurrell.
Her mother, Martha, widow of William Cooke Jnr, remarried to Sir George William Crauford, owner of Burgh Hall, on 3rd May 1849.
Ownership of Burgh House remained between Sir G.W. Crauford, Martha and Smith William Stephen Hurrell and his wife Mary (the only surviving child of William Cooke Jnr) until 6th April 1858 when the property was transferred to Anthony Portington of Alford until 11th October 1858 when Anthony Portington sold Burgh House to widow, Charlotte Grantham of Spilsby who lived there with her three spinster daughters.
They operated it as a temperance hotel by the name of the Carlton Hotel. It remained as a hotel until 1912.
An e-mail providing further information was received from Lucy Thomson who said her great grandmother, Sarah Jane Anderson, ran the hotel in the late 1800’s early 1900’s and subsequently moved to a house in market square. Her husband was Charles George Enderby, they lived previously (before The Carlton) in Church Street – Enderby House.
On 11th October 1912 the property was sold to Mr Frederick William Capes of Burgh, (Grocer and Draper) who converted it into a large store selling day to day necessities but specialising in shoes and boots.
In 1953 it was converted back into a family home by Cyril George Capes and remained in the Capes family until 2021 when the Driver Family took ownership.