New Star Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1993. Public house. 5 related planning applications.
New Star Inn
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-finial-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1993
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- New Star Inn, Fortuneswell, Portland, DT5 1LU
- OS grid reference
- SY 686 735
- Coordinates
- 50.56061, -2.4443
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
New Star Inn receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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