The Copingers have been at Copinger Hall for half a millennium, in an incredible — though not unbroken — line of succession. Now, though, the house is looking for new owners.
There’s something quite intriguing and extraordinary about houses which have spent hundreds of years in the same family. The example which springs quickly to mind is Broughton Hall, family home of Country Life’s cartoonist, Annie Tempest; the Tempests have lived in the house for 1,000…