Window Tax maybe?

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Window Tax maybe?

Image: © Kate Jewell Taken: 29 Aug 2005

This large house on Norton Street, Uppingham, has several blocked up windows. It looks old enough to have been subject to the tax which was first imposed in 1681 and abolished in 1825.

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Image Location

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Latitude
52.587453
Longitude
-0.719196