Star Cottage Star House

SE 2860-2960 8/74 15.3.66

RIPLEY MAIN STREET (west side) AND MARKET PLACE (north side) Star House and Star Cottage (formerly listed as Star House, formerly Star Inn)

GV II

Inn, now 2 houses. Early-mid C19. Part of the estate village of Sir William Amcotts Ingilby. Coursed squared gritstone, grey slate roof. Corner block of 2 storeys; 3 bays with lower bay to left to Market Place and 5 bays to the Main Street. In Gothick style. Plinth. Facade to Main Street: entrance to bay 2 has a 4-panel door, the upper 2 panels with trefoil heads and interlaced glazing bars to the pointed overlight,set in a pointed-arched doorway with a double-chamfered head decorated with flower heads'in relief; the chamfers terminating in shields with the Ingilby star in relief at impost level. All windows have pointed sashes with interlaced glazing bars; the 2-piece arched lintels have a star motif as doorway at impost level. Square hoodmoulds to all openings. Moulded eaves cornice and shallow blocking course; hipped roof with 4 octagonal flue corniced stack between bays 4 and 5. Left return (facade to Market Place): central doorway and fenestration as Main street, also cornice, blocking course and hipped roof. A 4-flue stack forward of ridge to right of entrance and a similar stack to left. Lower bay to left has ground-floor window with string course above; rebuilt stonework at first-floor level. Entrance to Star Cottage is at the rear of the building, via the right return. Sir William's father, Sir John (d1815) was responsible for the rebuilding of Ripley Castle. Sir William used the flower motifs, Ingilby stars, 2-piece lintels and window form from the pedestrian entrance to the gatehouse and the windows of the north (coach-house) range of the castle for several houses in the village. The Market Place facade is almost identical to that of Castle Close, differing only in the chimney position. Other similar buildings are Vale Lodge, Birchwood Farmhouse and Horngarth. Like Horngarth, Star House was formerly an inn, The Star, which closed c1915. The engineering workshops and outbuildings range to rear (qv) were originally the stables to the inn.

Listing NGR: SE2840460541