Building record 14968 - Alvaston, Ashley, Kermincham, Somerford, The Cedars, Alderley Edge

<1> Historic England, 2011, The National Heritage List for England, 1138874 (Web Site). SCH6528.

Formerly Firwoods, a large villa, now 4 houses: C1850 by J E Gregan with billiard room added 1907. Flemish bond cream brick with buff sandstone dressings, Welsh slate roof and 4 brick chimneys. Italianate style. 2-storey, 4-bay front to original house. Low plinth with stone moulding, stone band at 1st floor and modillion cornice. End bays have sashes without glazing bars, the lower one projecting forward with a flat gauged head and a flat stone hood. Similar above in eared architrave with triangular pediment. Right of centre is detached stone Ionic porch supporting balcony with 4-panelled door and plain fanlight behind. Pair of round headed windows above and similar in adjacent bay. To right is 3-bay added billiard room and behind is a 4-stage belvedere. Interior: Ashley has the converted hall with now blocked arcade of semi-circular arches with moulded soffits and a domical vault with moulded panels. Remainder not seen but most fireplaces and the staircase removed.

<2> Hyde, Matthew, 1999, The Villas of Alderley Edge, p.80 -85 (Book). SCH8722.

Firwood is an Italinate villa in yellow brick with round arches on some windows and pediments on others, Basicaly symmetrical but with a tall Osbourne-type tower placed asymmetrically. Shallow-pitched. Extended in early 20th century by new owners, the Pilkington familiy. Firwood was renamed the the Cedars when two Pilkington sisters built a house across the rsod in the 1970s and took the name Firwood with them.

<3> Hartwell C, Hyde M, Hubbard E & Pevsner N, 2011, The Buildings of England: Cheshire (2011 revision), p.92 (Book). SCH7059.

..Firwood, now the Cedars, by John Gregan.Large, Italinate, of yellow brick with a tower.