Copper's Cottage, Ashyards

Copper's Cottage is a single-storey with attic, L-plan building dating from 1874, designed by James Barbour. It was originally a police station and policeman's house, built in a neo-Tudor style. The building is constructed of bull-faced squared snecked rubble with red sandstone ashlar dressings, long and short quoins, and chamfered window and door openings. It sits along a main road and is set within its own garden grounds.

The west (entrance) elevation features an off-centre projecting gabled entrance porch with a stepped hoodmoulded doorway and a panelled timber door with an arched fanlight. To the left of the entrance, the building is set back and contains three windows, a larger centre window flanked by two narrow slit windows. To the right of the entrance is a slightly gabled projecting bay with a stepped hoodmoulded tripartite window. A datestone labelled 1874 sits above this window.

The south elevation is symmetrical and three bays wide. An advanced gabled bay centres the elevation, featuring a gabled stepped hoodmoulded tripartite window above which is a blank panel. This bay is flanked by two tripartite windows.

The east (rear) elevation incorporates a narrow open court enclosed by a stone wall, which is linked to a bull-faced stone flat-roofed outbuilding.

Later lean-to additions have extended the accommodation along the south range. Various outbuildings are located within the grounds to the east. The north elevation is a blank gabled wall, with a courtyard wall and outbuilding to its left.

The pitched roof is covered in grey slates and incorporates overlapping skews with corbelled skewputts. The building has three coped chimney stacks – two to the south elevation and one to the front pitch of the west elevation. The windows are predominantly replacements.

A low coped stone wall defines the boundary, marked by tall stone coped gatepiers.

The interior, observed in 2017, largely maintains the original plan, separating the police house (to the south) from the police station (to the north) with two access corridors. The former police station retains late 19th-century features, including evidence of two police holding cells, now converted into domestic accommodation.

Excluded from the listing are all 20th-century concrete, wood, brick, and corrugated iron lean-tos and outbuildings located to the east and along Ashyard Road, Eaglesfield.