Description:The former mid-19th century Baswich House stood on the Cannock Road at Weeping Cross.
Baswich House replaced a white house known as 'The Weeping Cross Inn’. It became the home of John and Sarah Salt. Later it was the home of their son, Thomas Salt (1830-1904) and his wife Helen. In 1899 he became Sir Thomas Salt, 1st Baronet Standon and Weeping Cross. A large room was added to the building in which they hung about 300 water-colour paintings by Thomas's mother's brother, the Reverend John Louis Petit.
In the 1920s Baswich House was a private preparatory school for boys until the early 1940's when the County Education Department temporarily used it as girl's day school. In 1945 it was sold at auction, together with its lodge and two cottages. The house was purchased by John Joules Brewery, who converted it into apartments. In 1950 they made plans to change it into a hotel, but this scheme was abandoned. In 1951 it was purchased by Staffordshire County Council, and it became the Police Motor Training Centre and then the Staffordshire Police Force Headquarters Museum before being demolished around 2009. The adjacent former Staffordshire Police Force Headquarters building was demolished in 2013. Staffordshire Police moved into their new £16 million headquarters on Weston Road in February 2010.
The site is now (2025) part of a housing development and known as Constable Close.