NHER 34427 (Building record) - Star Hotel

February 1998. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description excerpt:
"Hotel. Mid 17th century. Two-storey building with a dormer attic, raised to present height c.1890. 17th-century work of knapped flint, remainder of brick with false timbering. Machine tile roofs. Probably six-window range originally. Ground floor with a bay window to left...To right are two 17th-century window openings with painted chamfered jambs...First floor with a series of chamfered window openings opened onto a late 19th-century enclosed balcony under a sloping roof. Upper floors c.1890: half-timbered, central canted bay rising into a gable with one smaller bay either side...Gabled roof. Three-storey brick rear block added 1972-3.
INTERIOR: cellar has plastered brick walls. Main front ground-floor room with mid-18th-century large-framed panelling re-used from elsewhere. Moulded boxes to bridging beams. Reeded early 20th-century chimney-piece pilasters."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
E. Rose (NAU). Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 13 March 2022.

Two photos (S2) in file by the late P Rumbelow of medieval jugs marked “From site of Old Star Hotel Great Yarmouth” – this sounds as if it means, a demolished Star Hotel whereas the present building is 17th century. Was there another Star Hotel? This seems improbable; but it should be borne in mind these may come from a different site

Newspaper article (S3) in file notes finding of a "16th-century smugglers tunnel" leading to the river in 1989. The evidence for the dating is not given.