A thatched mock dairy building in the Gothic Revival style with stained-glass windows stands in the garden.
[2] The Cedars was owned by the politician John Yorke in the 18th century; he sold it to the antiquary George Ellis.
[5] Scott and his wife, Charlotte Charpentier, stayed with Ellis at The Cedars for a week with their friends Richard Heber and Francis Douce.
[7] While staying with Ellis and his wife, Scott read the first two or three cantos of the Lay of the Last Minstrel to his hosts under an old oak tree in Windsor Forest.
Moore wrote to Faraday from The Cedars and told him and his wife Sarah that the geologists Charles and Mary Horner Lyell had recently stayed at the house and were now "geologizing in the Hartz mountains".
Bergen likened the appearance of The Cedars to the White House in Washington, D.C. and wrote that its "...endless large windows give the interior a kind of crystalline light that painters such as Vermeer would have swooned for".