Half Moon Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 February 1977. Inn. 1 related planning application.
Half Moon Inn
- WRENN ID
- buried-joist-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torridge
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 February 1977
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- Half Moon Inn, the Square, Sheepwash, EX21 5NE
- OS grid reference
- SS 486 063
- Coordinates
- 50.83684, -4.15074
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Half Moon Inn is an inn that dates from the 17th century and was altered in the mid to late 19th century. It features plastered walls, likely made of rubble and cob, and is topped with an asbestos slate roof that is hipped at the left end and gabled at the right. The building has a brick stack at the right gable end of both ranges and at the front of a single-storey wing.
The oldest part of the inn is on the right, originally designed with a two-room layout, where the right room was heated by an end fireplace. This area has since been converted into a single room. A small L-shaped wing was added to the right end of this range in the 19th century. On the left end, there is a substantial addition with two or three rooms, likely built in the mid-19th century, which may have originally been two separate cottages.
The inn is two storeys high with an asymmetrical window arrangement of 4:4:2. The taller 19th-century range on the left features small-paned, two-light casements, along with a mid to late 19th-century three-light bay sash window on the ground floor to the left. There is a double-gabled, open-fronted porch left of centre, behind which is a 19th-century six-panel door to the right and a blocked doorway to the left. The 17th-century section on the right is lower and also has small-paned, two-light casements, likely from the 19th century on the first floor and 20th century below. A gabled porch, dating from the late 19th or early 20th century, is positioned to the right of centre and has an early 19th-century six-panel door behind it. The lower addition at the right end has similar windows and a one-storey wing projecting to the front.
Inside, the 17th-century range features an open fireplace with a chamfered and straight-cut stopped wooden lintel, along with similar ceiling beams. One of the beams near the centre has mortices for a partition. Unlike many houses that have been converted into inns, the Half Moon Inn remains remarkably unspoilt both internally and externally.
Local climate
Half Moon Inn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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