Copyhold Farmhouse

House. Built in 1659 with alterations in the 19th century. The house is constructed of brick on a sandstone rubble plinth, with sandstone dressings, and has a stone slate roof now covered with bitumen. It is of lobby-entry plan, featuring a two-storey porch and a cross-wing to the north-east. The house is two storeys high with an attic. To the left of the porch are blocked windows on each floor, between which is a lozenge pattern created with projecting bricks. To the right of the porch is a tall 19th-century window on each floor, with plain reveals. The front wall of the cross-wing has been rebuilt in sandstone and features one bay. The windows have plain stone surrounds, except for an attic window with plain reveals. The porch has a first-floor window with plain reveals, and a doorway with plain brick reveals and a stone lintel inscribed 'OHM 1659'. At the rear, an outshut has a blocked two-light brick-mullioned window. The rear wall of the cross-wing has four windows with brick labels.

Inside, a large, decorative plaster wall panel in deep relief covers much of the cross-wall at the upper end, opposite the former firehood. This panel is approximately 10 feet wide by 8 feet high, and its design includes a central fleur-de-lys in a cartouche, flanked by cornucopiae with a human face at the bottom and a crude animal head at the top. Decorated urns with pendants and vines emerging from the urns fill the space between the major features. Human heads in profile appear beneath the central design. The vines extend from the left urn across adjacent doors to the staircase lobby and the rear entrance, but are interrupted by a modern timber wall. The design descends from ceiling height to a depth of 4 feet 2 inches, with a panelled frieze 1 foot 11 inches deep below, 1 foot 10 inches above the floor. This panel is well-preserved and a rare survival. Other interior features include two spiral newel staircases and stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.