page_title: Copped Hall
section_title: Decline
hierarchical_section_title: Copped Hall / History / Decline
caption_attribution_description: English: A view of Copped (or Copt) Hall from the north-east as a wood engraved print by Forsyth for an 1888 book by Edward Walford, published by Cassell &amp; Co Ltd.
context_page_description: Copped Hall, also known as Copt Hall or Copthall, is a mid-18th-century English country house close to Epping, Essex, which has been undergoing restoration since 1999. Copped Hall is visible from the M25 motorway between junctions 24 and 25. There was a separate Copped Hall in Totteridge, which was demolished in 1928.
context_section_description: His son, Henry John Conyers (1782–1853), was said to be so obsessed with hunting that he neglected the house. He was survived by three daughters. The house was finally sold by the family in 1869. It was bought by George Wythes (1811-1883), who had made his fortune in civil engineering, building railways around the world.
  Country Life magazine ran two articles on Copped Hall in 1910, illustrated with many photographs.
  The main house was gutted in an accidental fire one Sunday morning in 1917 which was caused by an electrical fault.
  The Wythes family, who were the then occupiers, moved into Wood House on the estate. Ernest Wythes died in 1949 and his wife died in 1951. Around 1950 the estate was sold, after which followed a period of total neglect, see Destruction of country houses in 20th-century Britain. The main 18th-century house was first stripped of its more desirable building materials then left to deteriorate. The orangery was blown up as an army training exercise in the 1960s. All of the statues in the gardens were sold and removed to other large estate houses; some ended up in Anglesey Abbey in Cambridgeshire. A gazebo from the garden was set up in the grounds of St Paul's Walden Bury.
  In 1995, the derelict shell of the main house was used as a location for the music video for I Can't Be with You by The Cranberries.
caption: In the 1880s
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