The Cedars

The Cedars is a house located on Merrow Street in Guildford, with parts dating from the 17th century on the right and an early 19th-century extension on the left. The building has a timber-framed core on the right, which is covered below in colourwashed render and features tile hanging above. The left side has a colourwashed render and brick extension that is set at right angles. The roofs are plain tiled over the 17th-century section and have a low-pitched hipped slate roof on the left, with deep eaves.

The house is two storeys tall, featuring a four-gabled range on the right, each gable adorned with a diamond panel of fishscale tiles. The larger gable on the left has a ridge stack, with 18th-century gables in the centre and a 20th-century gable to the right. The first floor has three windows, while the right side has two windows. The ground floor features five windows in total. On the first floor of the left-hand range, there are two 12-pane glazing-bar sash windows, one on either side of the stack. Below, there are two windows with margin lights. The entrance door consists of four fielded panels and is located at the junction of the two ranges, set under a cambered head and flanked by fluted pilasters. A flat-roofed porch rests on square pillars.

On the left-hand return front, facing Sadler's Close, the 19th-century range extends at right angles and consists of five bays with channelled, block-rusticated end piers. The centre three bays project slightly, flanked by rusticated piers on the ground floor and thin Doric pilasters above. There are three 12-pane glazing-bar sash windows on the upper floor and three larger windows below, all featuring margin glazing bars. Inside, some Queen posts and tie-beams are exposed in the first-floor rooms at the rear.