Half Moon Cottage

Half Moon Cottage, formerly an inn, has a late medieval origin, with alterations dating to the late 16th and 17th centuries. The front facade is rendered over a rubble base, with random rubble visible on the left return, featuring raking buttresses. There is a large brick stack above the entrance and at the left gable end. The building's plan originally comprised an open hall house, later ceiled to create a three-cell layout with a lobby entry, and a single-cell addition at the centre of the rear.

It is two storeys high, with a projecting bay to the left illuminated by a small, moulded window on the first floor. Other windows are wooden, steeply chamfered two-light casements on the first floor, and two-, three-, and four-light leaded casements on the ground floor. The ground floor also includes a good 17th-century door with a gabled, thatched, rustic porch.

The interior, which was not inspected, is said to contain a fireplace at the North end with scroll stops to the lintel. There is a blocked stairway to the left and an oven behind it. To the right of the fireplace is a large circular chamber with a corbelled stone roof, believed to have been used for corn drying or bacon curing. The interior also features chamfered beams with enriched stops and a pair of jointed crucks.

The building was recorded as the Ram Inn in 1675 and was known as the Half Moon Inn by 1785; it ceased to be an inn around 1860 with the construction of the Notley Arms.