Brewery Tap

This is a former inn range, later used with a brewery at the rear, and now a public house with a flat above. The building mainly dates to the 15th century, but was heightened and refronted in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The front is constructed of red and grey brick with red brick dressings, concealing an earlier timber-framed structure. It has a steeply pitched Welsh slate roof with a bracketed cornice, and a plastered side gable with flush set attic windows.

The exterior has three storeys and attics. The first and second floors have four irregularly spaced sash windows with glazing bars, set flush with exposed boxes and rubbed flat arches. Plat bands are present at both the first and second floor levels. On the ground floor, a sash window is situated to the left (east) of the carriageway. To the right (west) is a fine shopfront dating from the late 18th or early 19th century, featuring twin bow windows with glazing bars, reeded pilasters with decorative paterae, a central recessed panel door with four panels, and a rectangular fanlight above, all under a fret architrave. The shopfront is topped with a moulded cornice and a wrought-iron balcony railing. The carriageway has timber posts with Tuscan Doric caps and a bressumer with a recessed panel. There are framed and panelled gates with a wicket door in the right-hand leaf. An arched timber-framed door from the 15th century is located on the left-hand side of the carriageway. The rear of the building is plastered with old tiled roofs. A long, two-storey outshoot extends from the rear, weatherboarded on the east side and red brick on the west side; this dates to the 18th and 19th centuries and was used as a brewery. The building was altered and extended in the mid-1970s by architects Adams Huntley.

Extensive, partially vaulted cellars from the 18th and 19th centuries remain. Exposed beams on the ground and first floors indicate the original timber-framed construction and subsequent alterations, though the original layout and structure have been considerably changed. The site was formerly the location of The Horseshoe Inn, recorded in 1509, later known as The Golden Cross Inn. This gave the name Starcross Row to this part of the High Street, in conjunction with the nearby Star Inn.