The Half Moon is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 May 1984. Public house.
The Half Moon
- WRENN ID
- pitched-lead-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Constituency
- Braintree MP: Sir James Cleverly (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1984
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Half Moon, Gages Road, Belchamp St. Paul
- OS grid reference
- TL 791 422
- Coordinates
- 52.05008, 0.61185
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Half Moon is a public house dating from the 17th century, with later additions and alterations. It features a timber-framed and plastered structure topped with a thatched roof, which has two curved dormers and 19th-century casement windows. The building is one storey high with attics and has a two-window range of small-paned vertical sliding sashes. An enclosed thatched gabled porch includes a 20th-century vertically boarded door. There is a central red brick chimney stack, along with another red brick chimney stack on a single-storey thatched extension to the left. Additionally, there is a single-storey forward crosswing extension to the left, constructed from matching materials and featuring a semi-circular 20th-century bay window at the front. A date plaque on the front wall indicates the year 1685.
Local climate
The Half Moon sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1997
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