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for £3 million (equivalent to £6,896,380 in 2023). Bergen described the rear of the house as "more imposing than the front" and that it was "not seen to its best advantage from the front because it can be approached only obliquely from the side". Bergen likened the appearance of The Cedars to the
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It is two storeys in height, painted white render and has a hipped slate roof. The house has a roughly rectangular plan. It was initially built in the early 19th-century and subsequently expanded. A large
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in the garden of the residence. A stone in the garden of The Cedars marks Scott's favourite spot. Scott and his wife, Charlotte
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had recently stayed at the house and were now "geologizing in the Hartz mountains". In the 1860s it was the residence of
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to his hosts under an old oak tree in
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