Copphall Farmhouse and Adjoining Shippon

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MOLLAND SS 8028-8128 20/83 Copphall Farmhouse and adjoining - Shippon GV II Farmhouse, now holiday accommodation, and adjoining shippon. Early to mid-C17 house, possibly incorporating earlier fabric. Late C19 addition and probably mid - C20 alterations. C18 adjoining shippon with mid - C20 alterations. Stone rubble, cement-rendered to front, possibly also over some cob. Gable-ended corrugated- asbestos roof. Shippon of coursed stone rubble, with gable end rebuilt in concrete block (possibly former cob) and low band of cob below eaves. Corrugated-iron gable- ended roof. Rendered end and lateral stacks. Plan and development: C17 or early C18 3-room and through passage plan facing south (ground falls to left), consisting of hall with central integral lateral stack to front, upper room to right with external end stack, and through passage to left of hall and with service room (now kitchen) at a lower level to the left of that with integral end stack. Staircase projection at rear of upper end of hall; if the house were formerly an open hall the stack and stair turret would be possibly contemporary with a C17 flooring. Probably C17 winder staircase in through passge to left of entrance, presumably an insertion if the house pre-dates the C17. C19 wing at rear of through passage and lower end of hall, incorporating a dairy on the ground floor. C19 lean-to outshut in angle of rear wing and at rear of lower end and adjoining shippon. Front door inserted in front of lower room at some time. Early C20 alterations include refenestration and raising of eaves over cross passage, hall and upper room. The front of the hall-section has possibly been rebuilt, probably in the C20 (see recess in front wall with flanking buttresses). L-plan shippon added in late C20. Two storeys. Exterior: Asymmetrical 4-window front; probably mid-C20 wooden cross windows. Old nail-studded C17 boarded through passage door with glazed panel and pegged frame. Old nail-studded kitchen door with pegged frame. Late C20 lean-to glazed porch in front of both doors. Recessed wall in front of hall section with flanking pilaster buttress, possibly evidence of mid - C20 partial rebuilding (note small stack). Old full-height raking buttress to lower end. Projecting bread oven in left-hand gable end. Lean-to stair projection to rear. Interior: Hall with chamfered spine beams and half beams. Two doorways between hall and through passage, that nearest the front C18 with 4 raised and fielded panels, and that nearest the rear blocked. Old boarded door at rear of through passage with old strap hinges. Old winder stair to left of entrance in through passage. C17 chamfered cranked-arched arched doorway with pegged frame between through passage and kitchen (lower room). Kitchen with deep-chamfered spine beam and boxed half beams, blocked large fireplace, and old boarded door to rear with strap hinges. Upper room with cased cross beam and half beam, and depressed-arched niche in left-hand wall. Dairy at rear with low slate shelves. First floor rooms with old boarded doors. Central first-floor room has old boarded door with strap hinges. Roofspace inaccessible at time of survey (July 1987). Old roof apparently survives complete below C20 covering and seems to consist of 4 trusses (see bases of straight principal rafters visible in first-floor rooms. Shippon: 2-leaf boarded door left of house with open loft above. Return range to left with late C20 metal loft window in gable end, and right-hand side with slatted window to right and boarded door to left. Straight joint to right above door, possible evidence of former opening or rebuilding-left-hand side with metal window to left. Interior: of shippon: C17 carved beam to rear, reused as ceiling beam, face down. Possibly former wall plate or bressumer. Face of Green Man at centre with vine trails from mouth and extending along face of beam; cavetto-moulded lower edge with carved fleurons and chamfered upper edge with carved dogtooth ornament. Continuous groove on lower face and 2 rectangular mortices on upper face. C18 collar trusses.

Listing NGR: SS8066128086

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