View of Cedar House in Vine Lane, Uxbridge, looking east from outside 'The Vine Inn' public house. The house is Grade II* listed, listing number 1284903. The front gate and garden walls on the eastern boundary are separately Grade II listed, listing numbers 1080136 and 1358416, respectively. Two workmen emerging from the single-storey building to the rear can be seen through the opening created through the boundary wall beneath utility pipes and wires, together with an empty wooden crate, a rubble-filled wheelbarrow, a discarded timber gate, and a jacket hung from a nail. The house was originally a cottage of 1560, remodelled and extended in the eighteenth century, and occupied by botanist, Samuel Reynardson from c1678 until his death in 1721, and who is said to have planted the cedar tree in the walled garden which has named the house. The current tree is a replacement. The building was occupied by Rutland House private school during the 1950s. Following the refurbishment by Peter Bond & Partners for civil engineers, Shephard Hill, it is now in use as offices.
