Coppingers Court

Detached U-plan four-storey multiple-bay fortified house, built c.1610, now ruinous. Pitched gables with tooled limestone chimneystacks, having some tooled limestone gable copings. Roughly dressed and coursed rubble stone walls with sections of lime render. Tooled limestone stringcourse to second floor at impost level. Rubble stone machicolations on tooled limestone corbels. Square-headed window openings with dressed and tooled limestone sills. Some tooled stone hood mouldings and surrounds. Single four-light limestone frame with mullion, transom, and label moulding. Square-headed door openings, surrounds and lintels now absent. Set within open field.

This fortified house, built in the early seventeenth century, was named after its builder Sir Walter Coppinger. Although now in ruins, much of its original form is apparent with its elegant chimneystacks and imposing machicolations adding character and interest. This fortified house would have been an important power centre, most likely influencing much of the surrounding area. It is thought to have been unoccupied since 1641, at which time it was burned.