This former family & Commercial Hotel is now a pizzeria. The Star was built in the late 17th century and is known to have been open in 1776, when it was mentioned in the Ipswich Journal in a report of a robbery.

The Star Tap was the hotel's public bar, which stood at the rear of the hotel at the junction of Sun Lane and Palace Street. The building there today appears to be fairly modern. The Newmarket Pubs tells us:

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)

January 13th 1776

Yesterday morning about 6 the Norwich coach was stopped about one and a half miles from Newmarket by a highway man who was shot at by a passenger, upon him clapping his horse with his spurs he rode off a yards and fell, he was taken up and carried to the Red Lion Inn in Newmarket but expired an hour after. He had no pistol but used an iron candlestick, he proves to be one Walker whose father sometime kept the Star Inn, Newmarket.