Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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From “The Monuments of Huntingdonshire” HMSO 1926
(at http://www.pepys.info/bramho.html , along with a history of the house from the L&M Companion. Thanks Glyn for the link.)
Pepys Farm, house, on the South side of the road from Brampton to Huntingdon, 400 yards NE of the church, is of two storeys with attics. The walls are partly of plastered timber-framing and partly of brick; the roofs are tiled. The timber-framed North part of the house was built in the middle of the 16th century and to this was added, early in the 18th century, the brick wing on the south. There is a modern addition to the west of this wing.
The original block has 18th century brick walls to the ground storey and a plaster cove to the eaves.
The west room and the room above it have 17th century windows with solid oak frames and mullions and iron casements.
The central chimney stack has three grouped shafts and there is another stack at the west end; both are of the 17th century.
The gables at the east and west of the original block have moulded barge-boards. The early 18th century addition is of red brick with a chimney stack of the same date.
Inside the building, the original block has chamfered ceiling beams and two rooms have open timbered ceilings.
In the west room on the ground floor are some pieces of 17th century panelling.
The first floor has some cambered beams in the walls and partitions and one fireplace has a cambered lintel. In the attics are two old battened doors.
Brampton
To see a less cluttered map of Brampton and the surrounding area in 1890’s go to the site below and insert Brampton in the search. It gives fields around the area, but can we locate Sam’s future house,somewhere at the junction of the footpaths?
Buckden (near Brampton and mentioned in Uncle Robert
See Uncle Robert’s page for Sam’s headaches in sorting out who would inherit Brampton: http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/884.php
Brampton (Port Holme Meadows)
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