Half Moon Inn is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1949. Inn. 10 related planning applications.
Half Moon Inn
- WRENN ID
- waning-corner-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1949
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- Half Moon Inn, 31, North Street, Bishop's Stortford, CM23 2LD
- OS grid reference
- TL 486 215
- Coordinates
- 51.8727, 0.15813
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Half Moon Inn is a 17th-century timber-framed inn located on North Street. It features modern pebbledash walls and a steep old red tile roof. The building stands two and a half storeys high with a jettied first floor. The entrance is on the south side, accessed by a double flight of stone steps with 19th-century iron railings. There is a cross wing on the north side, which has a 19th-century cusped bargeboard and a trefoiled triangular light in the gable. The inn also includes 19th-century sash windows and gabled dormers, along with a wrought iron and painted sign.
Local climate
Half Moon Inn sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 10 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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