Building record 14896 - Barn at Coppiceside Farm, Disley

<1> See map for surveyor, c.1837-51, Cheshire Tithe Maps and Awards, EDT 252/2 c.1850 (Maps and Plans). SCH3266.

This map depicts the main building which comprises Coppiceside Farm. It lies to the south of, and is recorded under the same plot entry as Coppice Farm. This plot is named Coppice Side House, buildings yard and road. Owned by Thomas Legh and occupied by John and Thomas Bullock.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1871-1882, Ordnance Survey County Series (Epoch 1) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ9584, 1874-1885 (Maps and Plans). SCH2462.

This map depicts this building and the lean-to located on the northern elevation. It and the buildings comprising Coppiceside Farm are collectively labelled Coppiceside.

<3> Various, Various, Oral communication to the HER, Edwards R, 05/03/2019 (Oral Communication). SCH2330.

The Barn is depicted as a model using recent (c.2018) aerial imagery and a DSM (see 4). The building's four elevations are clearly visible on this model. The Barn appears to be stone built with a slate roof and comprises a two storey barn and a farmhouse combined in a single linear structure. The farmhouse forms the northern part of the building. The farm building forming the southern part would typically accommodate a stable and shippon on the ground floor, with granary and hay loft above (see 5). The two ground floor doorways and one first floor doorway visible on the eastern elevation would indicate that the building follows this arrangement. The Barn has some marked similarities to the Grade II Listed Building of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, Brookside Farmhouse (NHLE: 1231828), c.300m to the west, which developed from a linear plan form farmstead in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Although much of Brookside Farmhouse dates from these centuries, a late seventeenth century core is preserved within it and something similar may survive at The Barn.

<4> Google, 2005-2023, Google Maps, 05/03/2019 (Web Site). SCH8660.

<5> Lake J & Edwards B et al, 2017, Peak District National Park Farmsteads Character Statement, p.4, 19 (Report). SCH8661.

<6> AB Heritage Limited (Jarrow), 2019, The Barn, Disley, Heritage Statement, R4344 (Client Report). SCH8751.

A heritage statement and photographic survey was produced in 2019 for The Barn, Coppice Lane, Disley, SK12 2LT, in advanced of proposed re-development, comprising demolition and replacement with a dwelling and attached 'granny annex'. Disley lies on the west edge of the Peak District in the Goyt Valley.The barn, which is non-designated, is a two-storey, sandstone-built building with a welsh slate roof. It is part of a dispersed farmstead and is located on the east side of a small yard. Additional agricultural buildings are located adjacent to the barn and comprise a modern corrugated structure to the south and a late nineteenth century stone and brick cow house to the west, these too are to be demolished as part of the proposed development. The rest of the farmstead complex, which is separately owned, is located on the north side of the farm track and comprises a stone built stable and farmhouse.

The earliest map depicting the barn is the Lyme Handley Tithe Map of c.1850. The tithe map shows the barn as a rectangular building in the south-west corner of field 219. The small cow house and corrugated structure adjacent to the barn are absent. The farmhouse and stable are illustrated to the north of the barn, facing onto a small yard, with another small yard to the west. The complex was known at this date as Coppice Side House, buildings and yard. There is little documentary evidence for the origins of the barn at Coppiceside. The most likely date for its construction is c. early 19th century as the dispersed cluster farmstead group. The increase in the upkeep and overwintering of cattle in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries gave rise to the development of farmsteads with more and larger buildings, cow houses being the most common type of farm building found in the region.

The Barn has been shown to have 3 phases of development, from the original field barn for cattle housing and hayloft, then with an extension for stabling, and finally as a late 19th or very early 20th century dairy. It is considered to be a heritage asset of Local Importance.