Star And Garter Public House And Two Adjacent Shops

The Star and Garter Public House and two adjacent shops, at numbers 223, 225, and 227 High Street, were built in 1898 to the designs of architects Berner and Son. They were initially constructed as a hotel, later adapted for their current use. The building is built of brick with an eclectic timber-framed front, incorporating patterns of ogees and circles, and pebbledashed infill. It has a tiled roof with three tapering brick chimneystacks.

The building is three storeys high with six windows. Most windows are mullioned and transomed casements with leaded lights, particularly in the upper parts. Number 227 has two gables on the second floor, featuring a decorative Star and Garter motif and a depiction of St George and the Dragon. A two-light oriel window is located on the left side, merging into an attached octagonal turret. This turret has a pendant and octagonal wooden cupola with round-headed leaded light windows, console brackets, an ogee-shaped dome with a metal finial. Cast iron brackets support an elaborate inn sign. The first floor features three French windows with round-headed tops and keystones based on Sparrowe's House in Ipswich, while narrow round-headed leaded light casements are positioned at the ends. Wooden balustrading, finished with ball finials, is supported by stone brackets. The ground floor has a public house front with three arched entrances, granite keystones, four granite pilasters, and a granite plinth. The central arch has three round-headed wooden doors with leaded lights above, while the end arches have recessed half-glazed doors with etched glass and deep fielded panels below. The end walls are filled with etched glass panels and mosaic floors, displaying the hotel's name.

The interior retains original lincrusta ceiling, an internal wooden partition, two partly fluted and partly plain cast iron columns, an elaborately carved island bar, and a cast iron fireplace.

Numbers 223 and 225 have three conjoined gables on the second floor, with the central one smaller. The mullioned and transomed casements on the second floor consist of a two-light window in the centre and four-light windows at each end. The first floor has Venetian-style windows reminiscent of Sparrowe's House. The ground floor retains granite pilasters from the original shopfronts, and the original fascia may remain behind the early 20th-century wooden shopfront of number 223. Number 225 has a more recent, late 20th-century aluminium shopfront. The right-side elevation comprises brickwork with stone coping and elaborate brick kneelers.