The Cedars

MANCHESTER,

SJ89SE, WILMSLOW ROAD, Didsbury 698-1/9/665 (North side), No. 825, The Cedars

03/10/74

II

Villa, now part of office. 1857, by Edward Walters; altered. White-painted stucco on brick, slate roof. U-plan formed by double-pile main range with two wings on north side; entrance front formerly at west end, but orientation altered by C20 additions there, entrance front now on south side. Two storeys with attic and basements, an asymmetrical 3-bay south facade with string-courses carried round, and an emphasis on tripartite openings: a slightly-projected rectangular porch (formerly a window or French window) offset slightly right (and approached by a long flight of steps) with glazed double doors and a cornice on consoles, flanked by tall narrow sashed windows; tripartite sashes above the porch; a 2-storey 3-window canted bay to the left, with a similar cornice to the centre window; a shallow rectangular 2-storey bay to the right, the ground floor channelled and with a similar cornice over a single-light sash, and the first floor with tripartite sashes. Glazing bars to ground floor windows only. Dentilled cornice; mansard attic over right-hand end, with small open-pedimented dormer. West (left) return wall has (inter alia) a square tower (former porch) with corner pilasters, cornice, balustraded parapet, and flagmast. C20 additions to east and west. Rear: west wing, in similar style, has (inter alia) a tripartite sash with segmental-pedimented cornice on consoles. INTERIOR: axial entrance hall from former main doorway at west end which is now covered but has fanlight with radiating glazing bars and keystone; fine open-string staircase; moulded plaster cornices with acanthus modillions; dining room in west wing with C17 style panelling and "inglenook" at north end.

Listing NGR: SJ8512290492