Coppice Farmhouse

Coppice Farmhouse is a late 16th-century farmhouse with alterations and additions from the mid- to late 17th century and the 19th century. The structure is timber-framed with painted brick nogging on a sandstone rubble plinth, with some areas rebuilt and extended in painted and rendered sandstone rubble and brick. It has slate roofs. The original design comprised two 16th-century framed bays, later extended by a pair of gabled wings in the 17th century. The 17th-century framing features square panels (three from sole plate to wall plate) with straight corner-braces, and exposed collar and tie-beam trusses with queen struts and v-struts. The farmhouse is one storey and attic with two storeys. There is an integral brick end stack to the left and an external brick lateral stack to the right. The front has a 1:1:1 window arrangement; the first floor has 2-light 19th-century wooden casements, while the ground floor has 2 ground-floor 2-light, small-paned wooden casements. A central flat-roofed timber-framed porch, situated between the wings, contains a half-glazed door with a moulded architrave. A small staircase window with a chamfered wooden frame is located in the left-hand gable end. A 19th-century gabled wing is set at the rear. Internally, there are square-panelled timber-framed cross walls with carpenter’s marks, a pair of chamfered spine beams with ogee stops, an old fireplace with a salt cupboard under the staircase to the right, and old boarded and panelled doors with moulded jambs. The earliest phase of construction appears to have been two late 16th-century bays with a single end stack on the left. The gabled wings were added in the 17th century (possibly in phases, indicated by differences in timber sizes), and in the mid- to late 19th century, the main range was partially rebuilt, including raising the eaves, along with the addition of a rear wing. Coppice Farm is first mentioned in records dating to 1585 and was occupied until 1619 by the lessee of Trentham’s Wood.