Grade 2 listed 01/05/1951

Brereton House 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.

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 remained the lifelong home 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 1920's Brereton House was occupied by successive General Managers of the Collieries and owned by the Earl Of Shrewsbury. It was made into three flats in 1962/3 and into six flats in 1985.

Forecourt wall, piers, gates and steps of Brereton House - Grade 2 listed 01/05/1951

Separately 'listed' the forecourt walls are described as 'flanked' by rusticated stone piers with central gates of plain wrought iron and good openwork posts formerly surmounted by lanterns with stone steps and scrolled handrails at the sides (the handrails have since disappeared).

The Coach-house to the rear of Brereton House

This old building of local brick, although altered by the insertion of several windows when converted into two 2-storey houses, forms an important backdrop in the gap between two listed buildings.