New Star Inn

The New Star Inn is a public house located at the end of a street row in Fortuneswell, Portland. It was built in the early to mid-19th century and features an early 20th-century pub front. The building is rendered with a slate roof and consists of two storeys and a basement, with two windows on the upper floor. The large 16-pane sash windows are set in moulded architraves with plain stone sills supported by moulded brackets, and there is a central decorative cartouche.

On the ground floor, the pub front spans the full width of the building and is symmetrical, featuring a central pair of part-glazed margin-paned doors beneath a twin-arched overlight with a central baluster. Flanking the doors are two pairs of casement windows with triple overlights, all framed by a moulded frieze and architrave supported by heavy paired end consoles, topped with a central flat segmental pediment. The entire front is executed in dark glazed brick, with a parapet that has a thin coping, coped verges, and brick stacks, with the right side rendered. The building has a plain return and presents a strong and unaltered frontage that is characteristic of its time.