The Star and Eagle Hotel and wall attached

The Star and Eagle Hotel is an inn dating back to the 15th century, with significant alterations in the mid-20th century. It is located on the south side of High Street in Goodhurst. The building is timber-framed with exposed timber and plaster infill, set on a red brick and sandstone base. The rear elevations have tile hanging on a red brick ground floor. The front elevation, originally from the 16th century, was altered around 1800 and in the 19th century, and again in the late 1980s.

The inn has two storeys and a garret, constructed on a sandstone plinth, with jettied gabled wings to the left and right, and recessed central bays. The ground floor has been built out with a balustrade above. A covered and jettied gable is on the right, with gables featuring moulded bargeboards. Chimneys are located to the right and at the end of the left wing. Leaded wooden casements are found in the gables and on the first floor. A mullioned and transomed canted bay window is located on the left, with a flush window to the centre and another to the right. A central half-glazed door provides access, with basement openings centrally placed.

The rear left range dates to the 16th century and comprises a continuous jettied two-storey range with a moulded bressummer supported by a dragon post, a projecting pentice to the re-entrant angle, and chimneys at both ends. It has four- and three-light mullioned windows. A brick wall, part of the adjacent churchyard wall, approximately 1.8 metres high, is located across the re-entrant angle where the two wings meet. It is constructed of red brick and includes a segmentally headed boarded door in the centre. A single-storey wing, accessed from a rear courtyard, is built with red and blue brick and features a central chimney. The rear elevation includes a boarded door and glazing bar sash windows. The rear elevation also has two storeys, an attic and a basement, with irregular window openings formed by sashes and casements, a central canted bay, and projecting wings of varying dates.

The interior reveals a partially reconstructed timber frame, a turned baluster staircase, and a “burglar's terror” newel. A surviving 18th-century shop front is visible in the ladies' lavatories, with exposed carved wooden posts and window heads. A stone newel stair allegedly leads to a cellar passage connecting to the adjacent church. The inn has been in operation since at least 1600 when it was recorded as the Black Spreadeagle.