Building record MTN 077 - Cedar House

Cedar House is a house of apparently late-eighteenth century origin, which has been altered and adapted in at least two major later phases.

The house as a double-pile plan, the front south range has a slated roof, the rear range is pantiled. The north range faces onto the rear garden, and is the oldest part of the house, probably of late-eighteenth century date. The parallel south range is later, of early-mid nineteenth century date, and has an early twentieth-century enclosed veranda/porch at the front. The three-storey northwest range is possibly contemporary with the north range, but was extended or remodelled at the end of the nineteenth or at the beginning of the twentieth century.

The north range is built of load-bearing painted brick laid in Flemish bond, with pantile roofs and brick end stacks (rebuilt). The north elevation is of four bays, with flush frame timber sash windows to the upper floor, six panes over six (the window in the third bay is false, on account of an internal wall). These windows retain historic glass. The ground floor has been altered in the twentieth century, with a bay window with sashes and doorway with shared wooden dentil cornice.

The south range is also built of load-bearing painted brick laid in Flemish bond. The front roof slope is covered with Welsh slate, but the (shallower) rear slope down to the wide central valley separating the two ranges is, like the rear range, clad in pantiles. The south range is of three bays, with eight-over-eight glazing bar sash windows to the first floor, set in reveals, and with blind boxes under the lintels. The ground floor has a full-width lean-to porch and bays, with pebbledash finish to the walls, and a slate roof. The central entrance has a projecting hood and is placed below a pediment. To the side, plate glass windows each have a central bay and are surmounted by a timber dentil cornice.

Adjoining the western elevation is the three-storey northwest range. This has a re-entrant entrance bay which belongs to a remodelling and extension, probably of the early twentieth century, to form a semi-detached service range. The tile-hung third storey belongs to this phase. It is possible that some of the earlier structure (the footprint of which is indicated on the 1881 map at figure 3) survives, e.g. the ground and first floor elevation on the north (garden) front, incorporating (figure 11) a first floor sash window of earlier character than the plate glass mullion and transom or casement windows that otherwise predominate in the remodelling (S1).