The Star Inn

The Star Inn is a group of three early 19th-century terraced houses, now a public house and flats, located on the west side of Manchester Street, Brighton. The building is stuccoed with parapeted roofs.

The houses were originally three storeys over a basement, each with two windows. The Star Inn, formerly occupying the ground floors of numbers 7 and 8, was expanded after 1980 to include the ground floor of number 9, excluding the entrance at the right-hand party wall. In this process, the entrance to number 8 was blocked, though its architectural surround remains.

Number 9 has a round-arched entrance with a wreath-decorated architrave surround, impost blocks, and keystone; a similar treatment is present at the doorway of number 8. The ground floors of numbers 8 and 9 are treated with banded, chamfered rustication. The front of the public house, dating from the late 19th or early 20th century, occupies the entire ground floor of number 7 and part of number 8. Originally, numbers 7, 8, and 9 each had a full-height bay to the side of their entrances: segmental for numbers 8 and 9, and canted for number 7. All bays feature tripartite windows, which are flat-arched. Blocked windows with architraves and projecting sills are visible above each entrance on the first and second floors.

Storey bands are present between the ground and first floors, and the first and second floors. A continuous entablature with a projecting cornice runs across the front of all three units but stops at each bay, which features a plain entablature band above. The original sash windows are mostly intact in numbers 8 and 9. The ground-floor bay window of number 9 has a 2x2 sash to each side and a 6-pane sash to the centre, with this pattern repeated on the first floor. Number 8’s ground-floor bay window features a 6x6 sash to the centre and 2x2 sashes to the sides. The second-floor bay windows of numbers 8 and 9 also retain their original sashes: 3x6 to the centre and 1x2 to the sides.

A two-storey structure of one-window range, numbered 9A and located to the north of number 9, is specifically excluded from the listing.

The interior has not been inspected.

Number 9 was initially listed on 20 August 1971.