Coppwilliam

A house, originally two cottages, dating back to the 15th century, with alterations in the late 16th or early 17th century, and further changes in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is timber-framed with the front elevation faced in red brick in a Flemish bond pattern. The right gable end is tile-hung up to both floors. It has a plain tile roof. The design features an open hall with two bays of differing lengths, and a storeyed end bay to the left. The building is two storeys high. A former gable end jetty is visible on the left. The roof is steeply pitched, with gablets, and includes a brick stack in the front slope towards the centre, close to the right end of the narrow left hall bay. A slender brick stack is at the rear to the left. The windows are arranged irregularly, with two 3-light leaded casements. The ground-floor windows have segmental heads. A ribbed wooden door is set within a brick porch on the left end. A blocked doorway, also with a segmental head and now containing a 2-light casement, is located at the right end. There is a red brick lean-to to the left, and a timber-framed lean-to at the rear. Inside, the original timber framing is exposed. The ceilings are low. The principal posts have shaped jowls. A cambered, doubly-chamfered arch-braced tie-beam is present in the central hall truss, along with an axial tie-beam in the storeyed left end bay. A plain-chamfered axial beam of heavy scantling runs across the inserted hall floor. A ground-floor fireplace on the left has plain brick jambs and a chamfered wooden bressumer. A chamfered brick fireplace with a chamfered bressumer is on the first floor above. Broad floorboards are also present. The building was marked as the “Burnt House” on old tithe maps.