Building Name

Star and Garter Hotel, 18-20 Faifield Street, Ancoats

Date
1877
Street
Fairfield Street
District/Town
Ancoats, Manchester
County/Country
GMCA, England
Work
New build
Listed
Grade II

The Star and Garter Inn is said to have been established in Boardman Street, (now Baring Street) off Travis Street in 1801 or 1803 and it is clearly shown on both the OS Map of 1849 and Adshead’s map of 1851. At the time of construction, the inn was at the very edge of the built-up area. Over the next four decades the area was slow to develop thereby allowing the Manchester and Birmingham Railway to acquire the necessary land for construction of London Road Station with minimal demolition.  The extension of Fairfield Street from Travis Street to London Road in the 1870s appears to have been the determining factor in the decision to demolish the original inn and build the present Star and Garter Hotel with its datestone of 1877 on a new site. It has been variously in the ownership of Chester’s and Boddington’s Brewery.

LISTING TEXT- Public house. Dated 1877. Red brick with stone dressings and steeply-pitched slate roof. Irregular plan on acutely-angled corner site. Gothic form with some Baroque details. Three storeys including half dormers, 5 bays to Fairfield Street, symmetrical, the 2nd and 4th bays with coupled windows and pedimented half dormers and the centre with single openings and a small half dormer, all these with corbelled pilasters to the half-dormers, the pediments with checker-board patterns and the central dormer with a shaped gable surmounted by a segmental pediment. Central square-headed doorway with stone architrave; windows round-headed at ground floor, segmental-headed at 1st floor and square-headed in the dormers; plastered coved eaves. Tall chimney stacks. Canted corner to the right with projected triangular porch which has doorway in Baroque surround, half-dormer above like that in the centre at the front, lettered "AD 1877". Return side in similar style.