1. Red Lion Inn

The Inn's attractive 2-storey long frontage, featuring a central gable, provides an
appealing focal point to travellers entering the Parish from the south. An 1880s
water-colour shows the rendered frontage and upper windows much as at present.
The Red Lion is probably Brereton's oldest Inn. A “Red Lyon” was recorded at Brereton
in 1595 when Richard Weston of Hagley Hall, Rugeley, owned it. In 1686 Robert Plot
wrote of an implement he saw there for uprooting bushes and gorse. Owners of the
Inn are recorded from 1769. It was purchased from Mrs. Mary Birch in 1842, with 16
acres, by the 2nd Earl Talbot for £2,134 and delivery records from his brickworks
suggest it was rebuilt or extended five years later, possibly incorporating parts of an
earlier building. His descendants sold it in 1923 when it was tenanted by Buntings Uttoxeter brewery.
 

2. Talbot Inn


     Another prominently situated 2-storey old building of local brick with a
     pleasing symmetrical frontage; although the two lower bay windows
     and three pairs of upper windows appear to be early 20th century
     insertions. The Inn's name almost certainly stems from the Earls Talbot
     family (one-time Lords of Brereton Manor) but evidence suggests they
     never owned it. The Talbot Dog, a hunting hound as displayed on the
     Inn's sign, has symbolised the Earls Talbot for centuries - two such dogs
     appear as supporters on their Arms. A 1795 map of Brereton Manor shows
     a building then on the site, but the earliest known reference to the Talbot
     Inn by that name comes from an 1834 Directory.
 

3. Brereton Hall

(Grade 2 listed 10-6-1985, upgraded to Grade 2 star 23-9-1993,).
The impressive 3-storey Victorian long frontage of cream-coloured
brick, with its 29 sash-windows, hides significant internal timber
framing up to roof level in the northern half, dating from possibly
the 16th century. This was uncovered in 1992 when the building
was converted from two into seven dwellings. Also uncovered
were twelve wall paintings (dating from about 1600) of busts of
Roman Emperors, which experts say are of national importance.
This led to the building's listing being upgraded to Grade 2 star.

Building records show Brereton Hall was largely re-constructed in
1794/5 for the use of the Rev. George Talbot, but after his death in
1812 in a hunting accident it was divided into two parts, and from
about 1818 the northern part was the home of the sisters Elizabeth
and Harriet Sneyd, daughters of Ralph Sneyd of Keele, who built
Brereton's first school and were among the principal contributors to the building of St. Michael's Church. Until 1923 Brereton Hall was owned by the Earls Talbot (Shrewsbury and Talbot from 1856) who, with their ancestors the Chetwynds of Ingestre, were lords of Brereton sub-manor from the 13th century, and it is regarded as having been the principal house of the manor. In 1924 Brereton Colliery Company purchased it. For many years colliery officials occupied Brereton Hall, although from at least 1897 until 1925 the southern part was a Girls' Training Home for up to 16 domestic servants (not local girls) who wore uniforms and straw hats.