Moon and Stars Public House is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1986. Public house. 2 related planning applications.
Moon and Stars Public House
- WRENN ID
- tired-railing-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1986
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Moon and Stars Public House, Mill End, Rushden, SG9 0TA
- OS grid reference
- TL 302 317
- Coordinates
- 51.96884, -0.10519
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Moon and Stars Public House is a building that originated in the 17th century and was largely rebuilt in the 18th century. It was formerly two dwellings and features a timber frame with brick construction, weatherboarding, rendering, and roughcasting. The building has a tiled roof and stands two stories tall with three broad bays.
The front of the building has three entrances: a central panelled door set in an architrave with a bracketed pedimental hood, a six-fielded panelled door to the right with an architrave and bracketed hood, and a plank door to the left also with an architrave and bracketed hood. On the ground floor, there are four windows, including two two-light flush frame timber casements with glazing bars and one three-light casement to the left, with weatherboarding below the sill level. The first floor features three two-light casements.
The building has 18th-century end stacks, and the gable ends show outlines of stacks with offsets, which may indicate an earlier, more steeply pitched roof. Exposed plates and purlins are visible, and there is a continuous lean-to rear outshut with a catslide roof. The rear of the building has two entrances, one with a two-light casement and another with a three-light casement.
Local climate
Moon and Stars Public House 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 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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 — 2 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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