Cooper House Farmhouse With Front Wall And Gate Piers

Cooper House is a farmhouse, dated 1711 but possibly older, that has been converted into two dwellings. It is constructed of brick, rendered at the front and side, with a stone plinth and some quoins. The roof is covered with slate, including some stone slates, and features two ridge chimney stacks, one of which has four flues arranged in an axial line. The building has an L-shaped baffle-entry plan with three bays, the first being a forward crosswing. It stands two and a half storeys tall, with a high stone plinth and bands on two levels.

At the junction of the second and third bays, there is a gabled single-storey porch. Each floor has two modern casement windows, and there are two gabled dormers above them. The front of the wing has altered openings, a small attic window in the gable, and below this, a square plaque with worn lettering: C E A (D C?) 1711. The rear wall is largely hidden by various 19th-century extensions but includes a small attic window in the wing.

Inside, there are back-to-back inglenook fireplaces in the second and third bays, with the former featuring an original bressummer. A large smoke hood is present on the first floor, along with quarter-round moulded beams on both floors. The wing contains a good staircase of late 17th or early 18th-century style, and in the front upper chamber, there is a moulded plaster overmantel with crude foliated patterns surrounding lettering that appears to read: C E A 1 IC 7 11. The attic is floored and retains its original purlin roof.

Included with the farmhouse is the front garden wall made of stone, featuring moulded coping and ball finials, as well as two square gate piers with prominent capitals and ball finials.