It was built between 1790 and 1805, and is a large two-story, Federal style house with a white clapboard exterior and high gable roof.

This home has many unusual architectural features including a barrel-vaulted hallway, elaborately carved mantelpieces, and the right front parlor retains an early hand-painted French wallpaper.

The famous English boxwoods of Cedar Grove were sold during the Great Depression to the Rockefeller family and placed in the gardens of the Governor's Palace in Williamsburg, Virginia.

[1] As of 2024, it is owned by Brian Branton, an attorney and lobbyist, originally from North Carolina.

This article about a property in Edgefield County, South Carolina on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.