4. Barn behind Brereton Hall (Grade 2 listed 10-6-1985)


     Externally built mainly of stone, it is considered to be 17th-century in origin.
     Each end wall  has a stone mullioned window and a gable with externally
     exposed  timber-framing. A semi-circular mark rising upwards from ground
     level on the south exterior wall was almost certainly caused by a one-time
     waterwheel of about 3-metres diameter driven by water from Brereton Brook,
     which is now culverted along a different nearby course. The barn was converted
     into a house in 1992. It is situated at the end of Brereton Manor Court.

5. Brereton House (Grade 2 listed 1-5-1951)

The 3-storey Georgian frontage of good quality red brick is described
in Nikolaus Pevsner's “Buildings of England” as “handsome” with a
“pedimented doorway of Tuscan columns”. It was built shortly before
1772 for Brereton landowner and maltster Andrew Birch, probably in
1770 as a new home on his marriage that year to Mary Pegg of Colton.
It remained the lifelong home of local benefactress Elizabeth Birch and
her sister Ann, spinster daughters of Andrew, after their brother
moved the family seat to Armitage Lodge in 1806. From about 1883
until the 1920s Brereton House was occupied by successive
General Managers of the collieries and owned by the Earls of
Shrewsbury. It was made into three flats in 1962/3 and into six
flats in 1985.

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