Half Moon Inn

The Half Moon Inn is a public house that was originally a house, likely built in the late 16th century to early 17th century, with significant alterations made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed from plastered cob and rubble, featuring rubble stacks with plastered brick chimney shafts and a slate roof. The building has a much-altered three-room-and-through-passage plan and faces east. There are rear lateral stacks to the left (southern) and central rooms, with an end stack for the right room. The inn is two storeys high and has a regular but not symmetrical front with four windows, which are 20th-century casements without glazing bars. There is a 19th-century door to the right of centre, topped with a flat hood on shaped timber brackets, and a 20th-century door to the left of centre, either of which may indicate the location of the former passage. The roof gable-ends extend to the right and are continuous with an adjoining cottage to the left. Inside, the building has been much altered, but the central and right (northern) rooms contain richly-moulded late 16th-century to early 17th-century crossbeams, with the latter featuring roll stops. The left (southern) room has a chamfered and step-stopped beam of a similar date, along with several inserted 19th-century beams. The fireplaces have been blocked, and the roof was not inspected.