From 1662 to 1689 a tax was levied on the number of hearths in a house; surviving records therefore indicate the size of individuals' houses. The original records are now at The National Archives in Kew. For more details see the Gibson Guide The Hearth Tax (FFHS 1996), available in the searchrooms.
Huntingdonshire Archives
A microfilm copy of the Huntingdonshire Hearth Tax returns for 1666 and 1674 is available. The 1674 tax has been transcribed and indexed; a transcript of 1666 is currently underway.
Cambridgeshire Archives
Microfilm of the Cambridgeshire Hearth Tax returns for 1662, 1664 and 1674 for most of the county and 1672 for the hundreds of Papworth, Northstowe and Chesterton only is available.
There is also an indexed transcript of the 1674 returns by Norman and Vicky Uffindell.
Cambridgeshire Hearth Tax Returns Michaelmas 1664- Nesta Evans and Susan Rose, Cambridgeshire Records Society vol. 15 provides a transcript of the 1664 returns (incorporating information from the 1662 returns) together with a detailed and informative introduction on the tax and on the population and social structure of the county at this time.