NHER 47256 (Building record) - The Coppice

January 1984. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description Excerpt:
"House. 18th century or earlier. Brick with flint returns and black glazed pantiled roof hipped to street. Ground floor one three-light casement with glazing bars, first floor two casements. Boarded door."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
P. Aldridge (NLA), 7 September 2006. Amended by P. Beers (HES), 1 January 2020.

Inspection. January 2014
Farm house on the end of a series of buildings in the centre of the village of Brinton. Gable-end to the street, it has an off centre axial stack with stair to one side of it. It has a complex history: It appears to have started life as a single storied building with an attic. This phase is marked by fine knapped and galletted fintwork with brick dressings to the north side and coursed flint pebbles to the south. The west gable-end had rough masonry and the main facade to the east is now obscured by the later brick façade. However, a single light window with a cusped head has been revealed on the interior. The cusped head is formed out of moulded gault brick as is the rest of the reveal except for some modern repair. If it is in situ it raises questions about the status of the long single storied house. The house was heightened in the middle years of the 18th century by building up in brick to the rear (western) half and in random flint work to the eastern half. Despite the different materials the two halves are contemporary. The main façade must have been heightened too probably with flint and the roof was constructed with hips. In 1788, according to a carfeully carved inscription on the fireplace bressumer with the name 'I Mason', a curious extension was made in the middle of the north side. This involved making a hole in the north wall and supporting the masonry above on a large beam. The eastern end of the beam is supported on a brick pier built for the purpose into the flint wall. This opened into a lean-to space which enlarges the room. To create this room the east ground floor room was encroached forcing the fireplace to be moved to a corner. At about the same time the present façade was built with typical rural Georgian casement windows with a large mullion and transom window to ground floor beneath a skewback arch with cambered soffit. The two upper windows and doorway have rubbed brick skewback arches. Two 17th century roof trusses re-used. Long single storey extension to north of 1816 according to a scratched inscription.
S. Heywood (HES). 24 January 2014