Half Moon Chambers

Half Moon Chambers is a public house dated 1905, with construction beginning in 1902, designed by Simpson, Lawson and Rayne. The building features a red granite plinth and grey granite columns supporting wide ground-floor windows. It is built of sandstone ashlar and topped with a dark slate roof adorned with copper fishscale turrets, showcasing an Art Nouveau style.

The structure stands three storeys high with attics and consists of five bays, with the outer bays being narrower. A wide yard entrance is located in the fourth bay, featuring round-headed surrounds to three doors with fanlights; the left door is adjacent to the yard entrance, while the right door is at the end, and the central door is blocked. All doors are topped with bracketed segmental hoods, and above them are inscriptions in Art Nouveau lettering stating "BUILT AD 1550," "REBUILT AD 1905," and "HALF MOON CHAMBERS."

The ground floor is supported by Ionic columns that hold up three balconies with bombé railings. The first floor features a cornice adorned with cartouches, while the second floor has rusticated Ionic columns and half-columns. The top cornice has a sloping pulvinated frieze. Above this, a wide central gable displays a round-headed window flanked by sash windows. The central niche is decorated with mask brackets and flanked by shafts, topped with a scroll pediment and ball finials. The end turrets feature oculi in stone surrounds beneath high round-hipped fishscale roofs, which are topped with tall disc-and-spike finials. Intermediate square-headed dormers have tall diagonally-set pyramidal roofs with swept eaves.