Star And Garter Hotel

SU 3645 SE ANDOVER HIGH STREET 4/41 (east side) 24.2.50 Star and Garter Hotel (No 2) II* Early C19 coaching inn, with a wide symmetrical facade (west) having Great Done details; 3 storeys, 3.3.3 windows. Low-pitched slate roof with eaves moulding to the wide soffit. Stucco walling; first floor band above rusticated ground-floor. Moulded architraves to the middle window, voissoirs and keys to the ground floor plinth. Sashes in reveals; at each side are 2-storeyed bows to the first and second floor, with slender pilasters (the upper reeded) separating the sashes, and plastered aprons; the 2 wider windows on each side of the entrance are of 3 lights. Doric porch with fluted columns has a flat roof which extends on each side as narrow balconies to the 3 middle windows, with wrought-iron rails of 'Greek' pattern; within, there are plain pilasters flanking the wide entrance which has side windows to the half-glazed door, and a decorative fanlight. To the north side is a lower attached building (integral with No 4) with an arched sash window above an oval-arched carriageway entrance. The south elevation has plainer features and incorporates a later large angular bay and a secondary entrance; the lower rear extensions have tile roofing.

Listing NGR: SU3651445382