[1] During the reign of Edward I Copthall continued in the possession of the Fitz Aucher family[2] till it came into the hands of the Abbot until the Dissolution of the Monasteries by King Henry VIII.

Sir Thomas Heneage received the estate of Copthall on 13 August 1564 from Queen Elizabeth I, where he subsequently built an elaborate mansion.

The Georgian house, a large structure set in landscaped parkland, "has long been celebrated as one of the principal ornament of the country".

The next member of the family to inherit Copped Hall was his son John Conyers (1748-1818), who extensively altered the house.

All the statues in the gardens were sold and removed to other large estate houses; some ended up in Anglesey Abbey in Cambridgeshire.

Nineteen stone obelisks were purchased by the renowned diarist Sir Henry ‘Chips’ Channon and moved to Kelvedon Hall near, Brentwood, Essex.

[6] In 1995 the Copped Hall Trust acquired the freehold of the house, ancillary buildings and gardens, all of which they are slowly restoring.

The West Essex Archaeology Group (WEAG) hold annual excavations at a site in the Copped Hall grounds.

Wood House is a 19th-century home on the Copped Hall estate, built in 1895 by Ernest James Wythes.