Copped Hall

Copped Hall is an ancient hunting park and rural estate dating from the 12th century or earlier. The present mansion is the visual centrepiece and focus of the 18th century landscaped parkland. It was built between 1751 and 1758 by John Conyers to the designs of John Sanderson and replaced the Tudor mansion, built for Queen Elizabeth's Vice-Chamberlain Thomas Heneage in 1564-68, which stood 250 metres to the north west - a small part of which still remains. 

View of Copped Hall by W. Bartlett 1832

The Georgian mansion was sold to George Wythes in 1869 and his grandson, Edward James Wythes, carried out extensive improvements to the house and its grounds to the designs of the architect C.E. Kempe between 1883 and 1905. The house was transformed into an ornate Victorian mansion with a new extension (servants' wing) to the north and a conservatory to the south. An Italianate two level, "parterre" garden was added to the west together with a causeway, two garden pavilions and a  "ha-ha". The mansion, its outbuildings and gardens are now  owned by the Copped Hall Trust.

The mansion is listed Grade II and the parkland to the west and south of the Hall is included in the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens (Grade II*). The rackets court, conservatory, garden pavilions, garden causeway, terrace walls, ha-ha and walled kitchen garden are also listed Grade II. Other listed buildings in the area include The Wood House (1895 by C.E. Kempe), Paris Hall (18th century house), the East and West Lodges in Crown Hill (1775 by James Wyatt), and Raveners farmhouse, Copthall Green (18th century).

Click here to view a map of Copped Hall Conservation Area