Ye Olde Starre Inne

Ye Olde Starre Inne is a public house in York, originally dating to the 16th century, with an early 17th-century wing. Further extensions were added in the early 18th century and the late 19th century, and the building was refurbished around 1890 and again in 1985. The original structure was timber-framed, now encased in render and pebble-dashed at the front. The right gable is of orange brick in English garden-wall bond, with the ground floor rendered and the remainder of the right return of red brick in stretcher bond. A later 19th-century extension is of orange-grey brick in English garden wall bond. The roofs are of plain tile and pantile, with brick coping and kneelers to the main block, and brick stacks.

The front has a two-storey, three-window facade with a lower two-storey wing projecting forwards on the left. A part-glazed door with a divided overlight is at the left end and boarded doors close a segmental carriage arch on the right. A four-pane window with a painted sill and applied diamond lattice leading sits between. The wing has a three-light mullion and transom window on the ground floor. The first floor of the main range has four-pane sash windows with narrow painted sills, while the wing has two eight-pane Yorkshire sash windows. Eaves are finished with bargeboards. The rear features a two-storey projecting gabled wing at the right and is largely concealed by a later one-storey extension. A five-light mullion and transom window with applied lead glazing is on the ground floor of the wing’s rear, and the first floor has three four-pane sashes. The left return displays exposed timber framing in the gable end of the front block and a sixteen-pane sash on the first floor. The right return shows the gable end of the front block to the left of the two-storey wing, with an attic window—a two-pane Yorkshire sash beneath a segmental brick arch. The wing has scattered altered fenestration, some retaining one-course segmental brick arches.

Inside, benches, stained glass, and panelling from the late 19th-century refurbishment remain, including a notable stained glass bar screen of five leaded lights by JW Knowles and Co, and a pair of Art Nouveau door handles. The left end of the front range retains 17th-century moulded ceiling beams. An 18th-century staircase has turned balusters, square newels, and a ramped handrail. 17th-century square panelling is reused beneath the stairs and as a dado in the front right bar. A carved stone Tudor-arched fireplace with foliate spandrels is in the rear left bar.