The Star Inn

The Star Inn is a public house located in Ingatestone, originally built in the 18th century and later extended in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building features a combination of plastered brick and timber framing, topped with handmade red clay tiles. The main structure has a rectangular plan facing northwest and includes an internal axial stack on each side.

At the rear right, there is an original one-bay window angled to follow the line of Star Lane, with a two-bay extension beyond that has a slightly lower roof and an internal axial stack at the end. There are also a 20th-century single-storey extension and a 19th/20th-century single-storey lean-to extension with a slate roof at the rear left, along with another 20th-century single-storey extension with a slate roof.

The main range consists of two storeys with attics, while the rear wing extension is also two storeys. On the ground floor, there are two casement windows, and the first floor features four regularly spaced sashes with four lights each, along with a blank area to the right that suggests there was originally a fifth similar window. Additionally, there are two 20th-century dormers with casements and flat roofs, arranged asymmetrically. The entrance is off-centre with a 19th-century four-panel glazed door and two stone steps. The right stack is cement-rendered and painted, while on the ground floor of the right return, there is a sash window with six lights, and near the end of the two-storey extension is a similar sash with eight lights.

The roof of the original wing is half-hipped at the end, and the stack in the extension features 19th-century twin diagonal shafts. The inn was known as 'The Hole in the Wall' around 1900.