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Brewery or Owner:- Greene, King

The Star Hotel seems to have survived most of its long life little changed. Stretching the length of Sun Lane, with a Tap at the Palace Street end of the yard. Various enterprises had rented out-buildings over the years. There exists a comprehensive inventory, taken by John Aves on the death of Jeremiah Gawen in 1669, which in due course I will transcibe and enter here.
The yard was a much safer route than Sun Lane on your bike, from All Saints to the High Street, if the traffic was busy
It was one of the pubs purchased, together with the Brewery from Harriet Moody in 1896. When Greene, King closed the 10 bedroom hotel in 1964 they changed it to one of their Peatling & Cawdron Wine Stores, eventually sold to Wine Rack and then to Pizza Express. The entire site was eventually redeveloped and now there are several retail outlets along Sun Lane.

One of the few hotels with a Tap. These were basically beer bars, usually at the other end of a large hotel yard. The idea seemingly was to keep the "peasants" away from the hotel guests The Star Tap became a bookmakers, and in keeping with the trend, a coffee house in the latest re-incarnation (2019)
More research is necessary on the latter years of this hotel

KNOWN LICENSING HISTORY

Year	Licensee	Owner	source
1625	Jeremiah Gawen	from his father	"Changing face of Newmarket
1669	Elizabeth Gawen	on death of Jeremiah	"Changing face of Newmarket
1773	Joseph Watson		CRO licensing records
1776	Mary Walker		" "
1779	Richard Holmes		" "
1786	advert		Bury & Norwich Post
1798			Chapman's map
1802	Richard Holme (died 1820)		Bury & Norwich Post
1820	William Holme		Bury & Norwich Post
1828	" "	up for sale	Bury & Norwich Post
1835	" "	still trying to sell	Bury & Norwich Post
1836	" "	sale of effects	Bury & Norwich Post
1839	Henry Hall		Pigot
1839		now for rent	Cambridge Independent Press
1840 May	T.Watson		Cambridge Independent Press
1840 Dec.	" "	to rent again	" "
1841 Jan	" "	for sale again	Bury & Norwich Post
1841	John Snell (died 1951)		census
1855	Elizabeth Snell (widow of previous)		White
1861	" " (died Nov..1865)		census
1865	Charles Snell (son of previous)
1871	" " (died 1877)		census
1876	John Vickers Willis		Bury Free Press
1877	William Brewer	Star TAP	Cambridge Chronicle & Journal
1877	Albert Hayhoe	Joseph Hayhoe	Bury Free Press
1877	Joseph Hayhoe (father of previous)	Joseph Hayhoe	Bury Free Press
1878	to rent	Moody's Brewery	Bury Free Press
1879	Albert Hayhoe	bankrupt	Cambridge Independent Press
1879	temp to Harriet Moody	from Joseph Hayhoe	Bury Free Press
1879	William Bell	Harriet Moody	Bury & Norwich Post
1879	George Rickus	Star TAP	Bury Free Press
1881	William Bell		Census
1882	to let or sale	Moody's Brewery	Cambridge Independent Press
1882	Charles Smith	Moody's Brewery	Cambridge Independent Press
1884	Harriet Moody to MIss Hazelwood	" "	Bury Free Press
1885	William Jeffery	" "	White
1886	Mrs Podmore to Charles Bradley	" "	Bury Free Press
1891	un occupied		census
1892	Charles Bradley	" "	Tindall
1896	" "	" "	Kelly
1896		Greene, King	brewery records
1897	William Templeman	" "	Cambridge Chronicle & Journal
1898	Mr Flanaghan	" "	Cambridge Independent Press
1899	William Rutherford	" "	Cambridge Chronicle & Journal
1901	" "	" "	census
1903	Raymond William Jeffery (temp)	" "	Cambridge Independent Press
1903 Jun	William Henry Medcalfe (died 1916)	" "
1917	Matilda Harriet Medcalfe (daughter of previous)	" "	Bury Free Press
1921	" "	" "	Bury Free Press
1927	" "	" "	Bury Free Press
1933	Cyrus Roderick Chapman	" "
1937	Frederick William Bye	Star TAP	Bury Free Press
1937	Cyrus Roderick Chapman	Greene.King	Bury Free Press
1939	" "	" "	1939 register
1941	" "	fined 5s for black-out offence	Bury Free Press
1941 May	Percy W Neal	Greene, King	Newmarket Journal
1946 Jun	Harry Pettitt	" "	" "
1950 Jul 11	Stanley Norman Gray	" "	Newmarket Journal
1951 Aug	Kenneth Vaughan		Newmarket Journal
1954 Nov	Leslie Tuck		Newmarket Journal
1959	Arthur Goodman		Newmarket Journal
1961 May	Thomas Arthur Mannion		Newmarket Journal
1964 Feb 18	CLOSED-protection order from T A Mannion to Brewery Area manager		Newmarket Journal

Peatling and Cawdron a subsidiary of Greene, King & Sons had a premises on the corner of the Grosvenor Yard / High Street since 1961 and this was closed when the business moved to the redeveloped Star on the corner of Sun Lane/High Street on 5th February 1965.