10. The Cedar Tree Hotel (Grade 2 listed 1-5-1951)


     The 'listing' description is “Regency, the core probably 18th century,
     stucco, 3-storey, 2 convex bays over two storeys with sash windows
     and crowned with wrought-iron balconettes. Stuccoed cornice-hood
     doorcase on Tuscan columns, dentilled plaster eaves, slates.” Its role
     as a hotel grew from its former role as a restaurant and guesthouse
     run by Miss Kathleen Earl for nearly 30 years until her retirement in
     1968. The following year it opened as a hotel with a greatly improved
     restaurant and the added Chetwynd Banqueting Suite to accommodate
     over 200 people. A northern extension was added to the front in 1980.
     During the war it provided accommodation for officers at RAF Hednesford15.
                                                           In earlier times, when a private house behind a high roadside wall, it was
named Cedar Lodge. The Earls of Shrewsbury acquired it in Victorian times, but sold it for £250 in 1938. The
landmark Cedar tree is subject to a tree preservation order and may be over 200 years old.

11. Houses north of Cedar Tree

The substantial pair of Victorian 2-storey semi-detached houses with hipped and
slated roofs, now used as an annexe to the Cedar Tree Hotel and 'modernised',
replaced a timber-framed house with diamond-paned leaded windows, said have
been Elizabethan. Until 2000 the houses had front garden walls with gate piers
surmounted by heavy stone caps prominently inscribed with the original house
names Ivy Villa (south) and Rose Villa (north). At the 1881 census Ivy Villa was
occupied by landscape artist H.W. Henley who exhibited at the Royal Birmingham
Society of Artists between 1871-95 and whose name is on the 1880s oil painting
of Brereton Church, donated to the church in 1989.

The house next door (No. 110), dating from before 1820, was double-fronted and red brick until 2002 when it was clad in modern materials and its central front door replaced by a window. The row of eight cottages behind this house and at 90 degrees to the road has retained much of its original mid-Victorian appearance giving it good group value. Its present name of Church View replaced an earlier name of Malabar's Row.

12. The former Antiques Centre (Brereton Mews)

     This is composed of a range of 2-storey brick buildings dating from the early
     19th century. The front part was formerly a shop and house owned by
     successive generations of Brereton's once prominent Bradbury family, who
     ran the low-beamed shop as a grocery and general store until the early
     1960s. Old photographs show the premises once had a good-sized front
     garden and heavily patterned cast-iron wall-top front railings and gates, but
     the garden frontage was entirely removed in 1971 for the A51 road widening
     at which time the shop was serving as Brereton's Post Office. The buildings
     at right-angles to the rear are the remains of one of two blocks of old cottages
     once known as Bradbury's Row, before that Phillip's Row (1861 census). They
were incorporated into the old shop in the late 1970s to create a multi-roomed antiques centre, and retain their
original features and appearance. The premises are currently being converted to housing.

15- Married accommodation was in Kingsley Wood Road.