Half Moon

Half Moon is a house that was formerly a public house, converted from a row of cottages. It dates back to the 16th century, with later alterations and additions. The building is timber-framed, faced with brick and rendered, replacing braided pargetting, some of which still survives at the rear, and has a tiled roof. It has an L-plan layout with three cells, a lobby entrance plan, a kitchen and bakehouse at the rear, and an added right-hand bay; it was originally a two-bay open hall. The structure is two storeys high and features scattered fenestration of timber casements, with a door set in a brick porch, all dating from the 1970s. There is an axial brick stack, likely inserted later.

Inside, the left-hand cell has heavy jowelled posts and a chamfered main beam. There is a four-light diamond mullioned window with a shutter groove in the rear wall. The hall has jowelled posts, chamfered at first-floor level, with one post terminating in a jewel stop. An inserted ground floor ceiling beam is coarsely chamfered with a run-out stop. There is a blocked full-height four-light diamond mullion window on the rear wall, and a Bressummer carved with a mark resembling spectacles. On the first floor, the left-hand room has a five-light diamond mullion window on the rear wall, adjacent to the stack, which is decorated with monochrome linear painting or stencil from around 1600, depicting heads and foliage. The rear room has a blocked two-light diamond mullion window. The roof is largely from the 20th century, but original rafters survive, cut off at purlin level, and tie beams are cut over the hall. It is said that there was a projecting box bed over the porch or doorway. The kitchen and bakehouse retains a bread oven. Before the restoration in the 1970s, the pargetting on the front dated to either 1732 or 1737.