The Cedars, 1a and 3 New Road

The Cedars, 1a and 3 New Road

A late 18th-century house, altered and extended in the mid-19th century. The building is constructed of brick with slate roofs.

EXTERIOR

The house is two storeys high with lined render and slate roofs. The principal elevation faces south onto New Road and is set back from the street. At the centre are three symmetrical bays with an entrance and flush sash windows with single glazing bars. The entrance features a stone doorcase with pilasters and a segmental pediment, within which are panelled rebates and a six-panelled door.

To the right-hand side is a tall brick extension which projects towards the road. Its street-facing gable has a canted bay window at the first floor, built of stone and supported on columns with foliate capitals. The left-hand side of the house terminates in a hipped roof, with windows irregularly spaced: two sashes at the ground floor and one mullion-and-transom at the first floor. A single-storey projection on the far left-hand side adjoins the neighbouring property and has a six-over-six sash on the south side and a doorway on the east.

The east elevation is two storeys high and built of yellow brick laid in Flemish bond. It has two large windows at ground floor and two further windows at first floor (sashes with concealed boxes and single glazing bars) beneath gauged brick arches. An egg and dart cornice supports projecting eaves.

The north elevation is rendered and projects and recedes where the building was extended and altered over the course of the 19th century. It includes two hipped roofs covered in unglazed pantiles, with sash windows at differing levels and the pattress plates of tie bars.

The west end of the building displays Georgian red brickwork, laid in Flemish bond with a dentil cornice. At ground floor level on the north-west corner is a former entrance that has been blocked.

INTERIOR

The building's historic interior features survive well. The plan form is clearly legible, distinguishing historic service spaces from high-status areas. The late 19th-century extension at the east end can be read in the fabric through the changing levels of the first floor.

The entrance hall and stair hall are key spaces. At ground floor level, these areas are paved with mid-19th-century tiles. The staircase winds around an open well lit by an arched window. It has a mahogany handrail, stick balusters, and a monkey-tail newel. The corners of the handrail have been interrupted by mid-20th-century raised square newel posts.

Fire surrounds survive well throughout the house, with a small number retaining their historic cast iron grates. Those in the east extension are made of marble. The former kitchen has a particularly wide blocked fireplace and is accessed through a doorway with a worn pamment floor. It contains a chamfered beam with run-out stops.

Joinery details such as skirtings and architraves survive well, as do panelled shutters in the east extension. Some cornices have been replaced or concealed behind later ceiling alterations. At first-floor level, some areas of reed and plaster wall surfaces are concealed (in the front room adjoining the east extension).

The building contains a barrel vaulted cellar, built of brick.