Coppicetown Farmhouse

Coppicetown Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the late 16th or early 17th century, or possibly earlier, with substantial additions and alterations from the late 17th or early 18th century onwards, and further internal modernisation in the 19th century.

The building has rendered stone rubble walls with a gable-ended roof, slate tiles at the front and asbestos slate at the rear. The rear wing has a half-hipped roof. The front range has two gable end stacks: the right-hand one is rendered brick, while the left-hand one is a projecting stack built of rubble. The rear wing features a projecting rubble lateral stack on its left side and a similar truncated stack at the gable end.

Originally the house followed a three-room and through-passage plan with a lower room to the right. The hall was heated by the rear lateral stack and likely had a shallow bay to the front at its inner end, possibly formerly containing a window. The inner room was heated by the gable end stack. A dog-leg staircase in a projection behind the lower room adjoining the passage may have been inserted in a newel projection. In the late 17th or early 18th century, a heated rear wing was added behind the hall and inner room, possibly serving as a kitchen. The lower end was extended, probably in the 19th century, to include a dairy. During the 19th century an outshut was added along the rear wing and the house was modernised internally, concealing various original features including fireplaces.

The house is two storeys tall with an asymmetrical four-window front. On the left are 12-pane sash windows on both ground and first floors; the ground floor window is early 19th-century, while the first floor window is later and set in a half-dormer. A projection left of centre with half-hipped roof contains an early 20th-century two-light casement with glazing bars on the first floor. Adjacent to its right is a shallower projection with a late 19th-century two-light sash on the ground floor, each with six panes. At the centre of the first floor is a 19th-century two-light casement with glazing bars and H-L hinges. To the right of centre on the first floor is a nine-pane early 19th-century hornless sash. The ground floor to the right has a 19th-century two-light dairy window with small panes and iron stanchion bars. To the right of centre on the ground floor is a 20th-century part-glazed porch built in front of an original segmental-headed chamfered granite doorway. Towards the left-hand end is a 20th-century part-glazed door under a pentice. At the rear is a wing to the right of centre with a 19th-century outshut adjoining it to the left, followed by a shallow rectangular stair projection. The area in front of the house adjoining the road is extensively cobbled.

The interior of the hall, to the left of the passage, features roughly chamfered cross beams resting on chamfered corbels. Some 18th-century two-fielded panel doors survive on the ground floor. A 17th-century dog-leg stair survives with heavy turned and moulded newels and similar balusters resting on a closed string, boarded in on the lower flight. Despite various alterations, the original plan form remains discernible, and a number of early features such as original fireplaces and beams may be concealed. The staircase is a notable survival of surprisingly good quality for its period, where a simple newel might have been expected.