Cedar Court

Cedar Court is a small country house of late 18th-century date with 20th-century additions and alterations by Eric Sandon, located in Alderton off Hollesley Road. It is built in red Flemish bond brick with a plain tile roof.

The house is two storeys with an attic. The entrance front is symmetrically disposed across 5 bays with a central doorway approached by 6 ashlar steps, originally having iron balustrading to their sides with a splayed lowest step. The doorcase has pilasters at either side with bands of fluting alternating with blank, flush wood. The cornice features miniature arches and dentils. The door itself comprises 6 flush panels with flush panelling to the reveals and a fanlight above with ornamental tracery, projecting springers and a keystone. On either side at ground floor level are sash windows with stone sills and flat-arched heads of 3 by 4 sash panes with slender glazing bars. Four similar lateral windows occupy the first floor. Centrally at first floor level is a Venetian window with a wooden surround, the side windows containing 1 by 3 panes with plain entablatures and the central arch having moulded decoration of quatrefoils in diamonds and a triple keystone. A modillion cornice sits below the parapet, which has a stone coping. The hipped roof above features a hollow valley with 3 pedimental dormer windows each of 2 casement lights. Chimney stacks of 6 flues stand to right and left behind the ridge.

The left hand side has a 20th-century outshut at ground floor level on the left and blank walling to the right. At first floor are 2 blocked windows on the right with brick sills and flat-arched heads, and two sash windows of 3 by 4 panes on the left with stone sills and flat-arched heads. A dormer window to the centre of the roof contains 2 lights with a flat roof above which sits the central ridge chimney stack.

The right hand side has two 2-light semi-basement windows on the left. Two windows of 3 by 4 sash panes occupy the ground floor, and 3 bays at first floor level, of which the left is blocked but those to the right each contain sash windows of 3 by 4 panes.

The rear elevation features cambered-headed doorways to the right of centre and far right with glazed 20th-century doors and rectangular fanlights. Tripartite windows of 20th-century date appear to the right and far left with cambered heads, central sashes of 3 by 4 panes and lateral lights of 1 by 4 panes. The first floor has an arched window of 2 by 4 panes slightly to the left of centre, to the left of which is a 2-light casement window with stone sill and flat-arched head. To the right is a sash window of the same dimensions with 3 by 4 sash panes. A modillion cornice and parapet match those elsewhere on the house.

Interior features include an entrance hall with an open well staircase of 2 flights with a small flight between the quarter landings, furnished with stick balusters and a moulded handrail that is ramped with a wreathed curtail and moulded tread ends with floral ornament. The lower hall has a moulded cornice, and the upper landing features a cornice with paterae and acanthus leaves to the frieze. The upper quarter landing has a doorway with an arched fanlight over it with decorative tracery, now leading to a 20th-century flight of stairs.

The sitting room contains panelled shutters, a moulded dado rail with floral motifs set in quatrefoil panels to the walls with moulded surrounds, and a 20th-century pine chimney piece. The cornice displays a mixture of Gothic and classical motifs featuring darts within trefoil-headed miniature arches.

The dining room has quadrant niches to the rear wall at either side of a 20th-century panelled door, a fluted dado rail and fluted cornice.

The drawing room, which spans the rear of the house, has been formed from two rooms and a through passage in the 20th century, with an L-shaped passageway formed around it.

First floor bedrooms contain hob-grates of early 19th-century form, with one of mid-19th-century date. The attics are approached by 2 staircases: one of 2 flights and one a winder staircase. The exposed beams of the roof are of pine.