The Cedars — Leopardstown Road

The saved account records: 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.

The saved account records: 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.

The saved account records: Roughcast walls on rendered plinth with rendered "bas-relief" strips to corners.

The saved account records: Shouldered camber-headed central door opening in shouldered camber-headed recess with concealed dressings framing timber panelled door having overlight.

The Cedars — Leopardstown Road matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: 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… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.