Brereton Hall

Brereton Hall is a large house that originally served as a 17th-century manor but underwent extensive alterations around 1795 and was divided into two dwellings shortly after 1812. The exterior features yellow brick facing over original stone, plain stone cills and lintels, and a moulded stone eaves cornice on the front, topped by a hipped slate roof. The building has four ridge chimney stacks and one at the end, with a total of 11 bays and three storeys, showing some irregularity in level and spacing.

An early 19th-century single-storey entrance porch has been added to the fourth bay from the left, constructed of stone with engaged Tuscan half columns and an entablature above the doorway, which features a radial fanlight and a six-panelled door. The porch also has oval windows with cast iron radial frames on its side walls. The section known as Lane Ends, comprising the four right-hand bays, has a plain doorway behind a single-storey open-fronted porch. All floors have horned sash windows.

The rear elevation is irregular, with two parallel three-storey wings projecting from the centre of the main range and a two-storey wing to the right. Most windows are cast iron frame casements with glazing bars. Inside, there is an oak staircase with slender turned newels, a moulded handrail, and square-section balusters. The ceiling beams are mainly encased, but two 17th-century moulded beams can be found in the ground floor room to the right of the Brereton Hall entrance. The room to the left of the entrance contains traces of a painted plaster ceiling and a frieze of mural paintings from the late 16th century, depicting Roman Emperors. This frieze is an extremely rare and important survival, discovered during the winter of 1993 and subsequently restored.