Half Moon Cottage

This is a mid-to-late 17th-century cottage, originally a small farmhouse and possibly two cottages at one time. It was likely divided in the late 18th century and reunited in the 20th century, with modernisation taking place around 1986. The cottage is timber-framed, with the front wall rebuilt in the 18th century using Flemish bond red brick with burnt headers. The west end gable is tile-hung, while the rest of the original timber frame is hidden behind later additions. Brick stacks and a chimneyshaft are present, and the roof is covered in peg tiles.

The original layout was a three-room farmhouse built across a hillslope, facing south. This included a large central room with a rear lateral brick stack projecting into a rear outshot, and smaller, unheated rooms flanking it.

The cottage is two storeys high, with attic space in the roof. Secondary lean-to outshots have been added to both ends and across the rear; the rear one is the oldest and is terraced down the hillslope, lower than the main house.

The front elevation has a regular, though not symmetrical, three-window arrangement with casement windows and glazing bars, dating to around 1986. The ground floor windows are topped with low segmental arches. The front door, situated slightly right of centre, is a 20th-century panelled door set behind a contemporary gabled porch. The main roof is gable-ended to the left and hipped to the right, and features a front-gabled dormer and another in the right hip.

The interior has been significantly altered due to the 20th-century modernisation, which included replacing some timbers. The carpentry detail is plain. The large brick fireplace has a chamfered oak lintel. The roof structure is said to be of side purlin construction, though it was not inspected.