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Black and white postcard showing a two-storey house with a tiled roof, climbing plants, and large trees on a grassy lawn.

Pepys House, Brampton c1905 (Norris)

Pepys House, 44 Huntingdon Road, Brampton

History of Pepys House

Listed Building

House, late C16 or early C17 with C17, C18 and C20 additions in a parallel linked range at rear. 


A red-brick and white-rendered house with a tiled roof, two dormer windows, and a chimney set behind a mature garden tree.

Pepys House, Brampton (RGL2025)

A weathered, verdigris-edged metal plaque on a tree trunk features engraved white text documenting the history of Pepys House.

Pepys House, Brampton (RGL2025)

Samuel Pepys probably stayed here with his uncle. On the uncles’s death, Samuel’s parents moved into the house. The house appears frequently in the diary. In October 1667 he recovers most of a hoard of gold coins he had buried in the garden.

Building dates

  • Built 1560–1640
Sources for this date
  • Built by 1899: EPC construction age band: before 1900
  • Built 1560–1640: Listed building: late C16 or early C17 (grade I)

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  • tudor

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