Szczepanów lost its civic charter in the C19th. However it has partially retained the old urban layout with brick and wooden buildings on the market square. The village’s appearance was dominated by wooden buildings up until the middle of the C20th. These were mainly single-bay, erected using log construction and covered with thatched hip roofs. The walls were white-washed. At the beginning of the C20th thatch began to be replaced by roof tiles, which led to a change in form to gable roofs.