Star Hotel

The Star Hotel is a hotel located at Nos. 61 and 62 Foregate Street in Worcester, dating from around 1820, with an extension added to the south in the same style by 1886. The building features a shallow break forward at the extension point and has undergone later additions and alterations at the rear. It is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, with a painted stucco ground floor and dressings, along with cast-iron balconies and embellishments. The roof is concealed and covered with slate.

The hotel stands four storeys tall and has twelve first-floor windows arranged in a 3:9 pattern. The stucco detailing includes horizontal rustication on the ground floor, and the wide carriage opening to the left break forward is flanked by rusticated Doric three-quarter engaged pillars. The building features tooled keystones with cornices above the openings on the first, second, and third floors, as well as a crowning frieze and cornice, topped with a low-coped parapet. The windows are all 1/1 sash types, with the left side forming a triple unit window where the outer sashes are narrower. These windows have plain reveals, gauged flat arches, and sills. The entrance is located off-centre to the right and consists of two steps leading to double four-panel doors with round-arched upper panels, a cambered arch overlight, and a glazed 20th-century canopy. The carriage opening features double planked doors. The rear wing has tall first-floor windows and corbelled-out stacks from the former assembly room.

Inside, the hotel has an off-centre left stair hall with a wide staircase that features ornate cast-iron balusters. Some original plasterwork remains, including a modillion cornice in the hall, and there are tooled architraves on some doors with lions' masks at the corners.

A continuous first-floor balcony is adorned with a scrolled ornamental balustrade and includes five lamp brackets at the entrances and ends. The second-floor windows each have individual window boxes with a scroll motif.

The Star Hotel forms a group with the nearby buildings at numbers 2-6 and 63-66.