Hearth tax significant proportion of householders were not liable to pay at all. The hearth tax was much resented because it often entailed inspection of the interior of dwellings by the sub-collectors and petty constables, who had legal authority to enter every property to check on the number of hearths. Some people stopped up their chimneys so that the tax was not due on them, but where this was discovered by the assessors the tax was doubled. On 31 July 1684, a fire in Churchill, Oxfordshire, destroyed 20 houses and many other buildings, and killed four people. It was apparently caused by
Pierrepont House, Nottingham the start of the 19th century and replaced. Pierrepont House, Nottingham Pierrepont House was the home of the Pierrepont family located on what is now Stoney Street, Nottingham. The elevation on Stoney Street in Nottingham was constructed in the mid seventeenth century by Francis Pierrepont, third son of Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull. The Lay Subsidy Roll of 1674 lists those liable for the hearth tax. The largest in Nottingham was Thurland House with 47, and Pierrepont house was next with 23. The house was sold by 1797 to Thomas Curtis and James Bellamy and converted for use as