Description

TL 2170 BRAMPTON HUNTINGDON ROAD
(South Side)
No.44
13/87 (Pepys House)
21.7.51 (Formerly listed as Pepys House)

GV II

House, late C16 or early C17 with C17, C18 and C20 additions in
a parallel linked range at rear. Timber framed, rendered with
jettied first floor, underbuilt in brick in C18. Tiled roof
with red brick ridge stack and a gable end stack to west, added
later in C17. Plan of three bays with narrower stair bay or
through-passage between hall and original service end. Two
storeys and attic. Two hipped dormers with horizontal sliding
sashes. Three C20 three-light casements and one original
casement with diamond mullions. Three similar C20 casements and
door, possibly in site of original entry to hall. At rear,
early C17 timber framed addition. Of two bays and two storeys.
In C18 the range to the south west, parallel to the house, was
added. Red brick. Plain tiled roof extending over the C17 rear
range. Tumbled gable end. Two storeys and sunken dairy. Flush
frame hung sashes with glazing bars in open boxing. Interior.
Much of the original detail is intact although some alteration
took place when the house was acquired by the Pepys Society.
The wall framing has curved and straight downward bracing, and
the scarf joints in the wall plate are edge halved and bridle
butted. The first floor chamber over the hall was originally
open to the roof and the ceiling was inserted in the C17. This
room and the one adjoining have fragments of C17 wall painting.
One first floor room has in the rear wall, an original
four-light casement with diamond mullions and iron casement with
original glazing. Two inglenook hearths, the one in the hall
has studwork painted on the plaster above the hearth lintel.
The inglenook in the room to the west is a C17 addition. In the
attic there is an original plank door, and in a ground floor
room, originally the parlour a small early C17 cupboard door.
The C18 extension has, in the first floor room, a late C18
cornice and dado. The house was the home of members of the
Pepys family and Samuel Pepys spent some years there during his
childhood.
RCHM (Hunts) mon (2), p25.

Listing NGR: TL2180770878

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17527976

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)