Copt Hall and Attached Walls, Pavilions and Conservatory

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In the entry for the following:- TL 40 SW EPPING UPLAND

6/11 Copt Hall

II

The address shall be amended to read:

TL 40 SW EPPING UPLAND

6/11 Copt Hall and attached walls, pavilions and conservatory

GV II And the description shall be amended to read: Also known as Copped Hall. Country House. Built c.1751-8, probably by John Sanderson for John Conyers; internal remodelling by James Wyatt. c 1775; extended and remodelled c.1895 by C E Kempe for Edward James Wythes. Flemish bond brick with Portland stone dressings. Double-depth plan flanked by screen walls, extended to right c.1895. Palladian style. 3 storeys. East and west fronts each of 2:3:2 fenestration with pedimented centre. East front has central porch with moulded cornice and semi-circular arched rusticated doorway, having paterae with festoons in spandrels; rusticated quoining to ground floor, which has square-headed architraves to windows; raised cill band beneath first- floor windows which have cornices and pulvinated friezes over architraves; square-headed architraves to second-floor windows. Similar fenestration to 4-bay left (south) side wall, with eared architrave to c.1895 doorway. West (garden) front has similar fenestration and tetrastyle Ionic pilastered portico built in stone by Kempe, c.1895; doubled staircase (balcony removed) rises on rusticated basement with 3 round-arched openings to first-floor piano mobile, which has pedimented full-height window openings; sculptured figures flank pedimented sundial in tympanum. All elevations have modillioned stone cornices, balustraded parapets and chimneystacks with moulded stone caps by Kempe, c.1895. Addition to right, of 4 x 4 bays, is also by Kempe and in matching style, with 2 bays to left of west front faced in stone ashlar with Ionic corner pilasters. Subsidiary features: east front is flanked by blind arcaded screen walls, of 4 bays to right and 5 to left, with stone parapet and impost band running to end pavilions, each with broken pediment over semi-circular arched niche; paterae between arches on right. Conservatory attached to south (left), built c.1895 and of L-plan with wing extending to west: 6-bay rusticated west elevation, with Ionic columns and balustraded parapet to central gateway; rear wing has 6-bay blind arcade with banded rustication articulated by Ionic half- columns rising to dentilled cornice. Copt Hall has remained derelict since it was destroyed by fire in 1917. (National Monuments Record; VCH; Country Life, Vd 28 (1910), pp 610-17, 646-53; M McCarthy, 'Sir Roger Newdigate: drawings for Copt Hall, Essex, and Arbury Hall, Warwickshire', Architectural History, Vol 16 (1973), pp 26-36; 'Copthall, Essex', in H Colvin, J Harris (ed.), The Country Seat, Studies in the history of the British Country House presented to Sir John Sumnerson, 1975, pp 18-29.

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TL 40 SW EPPING UPLAND 6/11 Copt Hall II

House. Circa 1775 by James Wyatt, altered early C20. In stock brick with Portland stone dressings. 3 Storeys. 2,3,2 window range. Angle quoins to ground floor only. Band over. Centre projects slightly to full height with pediment over. Ground floor window openings with cill band, architraves, pulvinated friezes and cornices. Centre window similar with ramped sides, and cornice on consoles. Top floor window openings are square with architraves. Stone modillioned cornice and balustrade all early C20. Ground floor has flat headed, solid, slightly projecting porch. Round headed rusticated doorway, paterae in spandrels with swags, and cornice over. To right and left are screen walls of single storey height, culminating in stone pavilions. Arcaded with coping. The Pavilions are taller and wider, and crowned by pediments. The screen walls are of unequal length, 4 bays on the right and 5 bays on the left. Behind the right hand screen is an external 3 storey wing in matching style. Garden front similar with C20 attached tetrastyle Ionic pilastered portico in Portland stone with Portland stone walling between. Elaborate sculpture in pediment. In the centre, on the ground floor is a projecting terrace for the piano mobile, with 3 round headed openings. The balustrading is missing. Elaborate early C20 chimneys. Interior completely destroyed by fire in 1917. The building is a shell with no roof, windows or doors. (Country Life 29/10/10).

Listing NGR: TL4301701463

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Sources

Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Essex, (1903)
Architectural History in Architectural History, Vol. 16, (1973), 26-36
Country Life in 10 October, (1910), 610-617
Country Life in 10 October, (1910), 646-653
The Country Seat Studies in the History of the British Country House in Copthall Essex, (1975)

Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 15 Essex,

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