The Cedars, house in County Dublin

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Detached three-bay single-storey house with half-dormer attic, extant 1894, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay full-height gabled advanced end bay. Occupied, 1911. For sale, 2001. Pitched and hipped gabled slate roof on a T-shaped plan including gablet to window opening to half-dormer attic (south), clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks on rendered bases having stringcourses below capping supporting yellow terracotta tapered pots, timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins with finials to apexes, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on exposed timber rafters. Roughcast walls on rendered plinth with rendered "bas-relief" strips to corners. Shouldered camber-headed central door opening in shouldered camber-headed recess with concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having overlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds.

A house representing an integral component of the later nineteenth-century domestic built heritage of south County Dublin with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the compact plan form centred on a curvilinear doorcase; the diminishing in scale of the openings on each floor producing a graduated visual impression with the principal "apartments" or reception rooms defined by polygonal bay windows; and the monolithic timber work embellishing the roofline. Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with substantial quantities of the original fabric, both to the exterior and allegedly to the interior, thus upholding the character or integrity of a house having historic connections with John Harris McCrea (1862-1943), 'Shirt and Collar Manufacturer' (NA 1911).

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 60230015

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