Coppice Howe bank barn

This is an 18th-century bank barn constructed of rubble slatestone with slate roofs. The barn is situated along the hillside contours and is oriented east to west. It features a two-storey design with ground-floor access from the farmyard and a ramped first-floor access. The barn is set at a right angle to the farmhouse.

The south-facing elevation, which looks into the farmyard, has a substantial, quoined stone facade with a pitched roof of graduated slate and an uneven ridge line. There are a pair of segmental-headed entrances with boarded doors, along with three similar, narrower entrances that have been blocked and replaced with upper windows. Further entrances, all with boarded doors and replaced concrete lintels, are also present. The upper floor has three openings, including one beneath a waney timber lintel and another where a former winnowing door once stood. The central section of this elevation appears to have been partially rebuilt. The east gable is blind and has an attached, open, lean-to addition with a small chimney, hinting at a formerly blocked opening through a timber lintel at the apex. A blind west gable features an attached single-storey lean-to. The rear elevation includes a pair of openings at the east end; one is blocked, and the other has a narrow-boarded door with strap hinges. A central double threshing door is flanked by two ventilation slits (one blocked), and another opening sits beneath a waney timber lintel.

The first-floor threshing barn contains a timber threshing floor flanked by storage areas, with a visible hatch to the floor below and a later chute to the east gable. The original roof structure consists of six pegged triangular trusses with collars and struts, all hafted into a ridge piece, and with double purlins. The ground floor is divided into low compartments, with surviving waney and adzed-dressed timber ceiling beams. Significant early timber cow byre and stable fittings remain. Cattle housing is arranged as rows of double stalls with wooden frames and wide boarded panels. The vertical posts at the end of each stall are carried up to meet the ceiling beams, many angled in the form of crotched stall-posts. To the east end, a stable contains individual timber-boarded stalls with cobbled floors and timber food racks.