Copse Hill

This is a country house situated in Upper Slaughter, built in 1872, likely by C.F. Hayward, for H.A. Brassey, a railway entrepreneur. It was altered in 1906 by Sir Edwin Lutyens and again in the 1970s, involving reductions and further alterations. The house is constructed of rough-faced rubble with a string course above the ground floor, and has a tiled roof with ashlar chimneys featuring chamfered corners. The design is asymmetrical.

The south front is approximately ten bays long and irregular in appearance. It is two storeys high, with mullion and transom windows. There are three gables, the outer two containing two-storey, hipped roofed bay windows, and the central one featuring a prominent six-sided bay designed in a Lutyens style. All windows are casements. The left-hand gable return also has a bay window, and beyond that, a panel displaying a curved escutcheon. The entrance front is hipped and has gables, the left-hand one with a square first-floor bay rising from an angled ground-floor bay, both in ashlar, with two gabled dormers above a cornice string adorned with lions' masks. A central porch, designed by Lutyens, takes the form of a pavilion with a segmental pediment, wide rusticated pilasters, and a moulded cornice. To the right of the entrance front, set back, is a tall T-plan side stack serving the kitchen, and the base of a former water tower is visible nearby. The east return front displays two stepped chimney stacks. The interior includes a classical staircase in the 18th-century style, which was removed.