Cedar Court

Cedar Court is a large, detached house built between 1911 and 1912 on its present site. While newly constructed, it incorporates timbers salvaged from a late medieval timber-framed building in Colchester, believed to be the Perseverance Inn, which was demolished in 1910. The house features an advanced gable to the left and a five-bay range to the right, with a two-storey advanced bay containing an oriel window and a Tudor-arched wooden doorway. The exterior displays close timber studding with red brick nogging, utilizing some older bricks. The roof is tiled. The interior includes linenfold panelling dating from the late 15th century, along with later 16th-century panelling, and heraldic glass from the 15th to 17th centuries, collected by the original owner, who was an antiquarian. The house was extended in 1915 in a Tudor style. A traditional, but likely legendary, association links the house with Catherine Parr, the sixth wife of Henry VIII.