The Star Restaurant

THE STAR RESTAURANT, MARKET PLACE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1142450
Date first listed:
07-Feb-1952
List Entry Name:
The Star Restaurant
Statutory Address:
THE STAR RESTAURANT, MARKET PLACE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1142450
Date first listed:
07-Feb-1952
Date of most recent amendment:
16-Feb-1984
List Entry Name:
The Star Restaurant
Statutory Address 1:
THE STAR RESTAURANT, MARKET PLACE

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE STAR RESTAURANT, MARKET PLACE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Essex
District:
Uttlesford (District Authority)
Parish:
Great Dunmow
National Grid Reference:
TL 62699 22085

Details

TL 6222 GREAT DUNMOW MARKET PLACE (N side) 7/76 The Star Restaurant 7.2.52 (formerly listed as The Star Inn) GV II

House. C17 and C18, timber framed. 'U' shaped courtyard group. Main front block, facing Market Place, is of 2 tall storeys with a half hipped gambrel peg tile roof with 3 gabled casement dormers. Thin plaster cornice like band and large moulded plastered name panel with scalloped corners. First floor has 4 double hung sash windows with small panes and moulded surrounds. Off-centre late C18 doorcase with open pediment with scroll brackets with diamond motif, thin pilasters, rectangular fanlight and 4 panel door. 2 double hung sashes to L of door and one to R with small panes and moulded surrunds. Behind NE corner fronting North Street, a storey gabled peg tile roofed block in render, with 2 slated lean-to bay window either side of red brick stack and oriel casement window over. Mixture of sashes and casements in N end wall and black weatherboarded gabled wall to N end. Main block has big red brick stack on rear. Behind NW corner and fronting Star Lane, is a single storey, peg tile roofed and gabled block, with render over tarred weatherboarding and one gabled casement dormer. Behind this a further single storey block with gabled slate roof and tarred weatherboarding. Rear block to NE has remnants of single storey timber framing of C16/17 with jowled posts.

Listing NGR: TL6269922085

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Legacy System number:
353323
Legacy System:
LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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