The Half Moon Inn is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1985. Inn.

The Half Moon Inn

WRENN ID
rough-pedestal-hemlock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 January 1985
Type
Inn
Address
The Half Moon Inn, Horsington
OS grid reference
ST 701 238
Coordinates
51.01312, -2.42743
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Half Moon Inn is an inn that likely dates from the late 18th century. It is constructed from local stone that has been cut and squared, topped with a plain clay tile roof over stone slate base courses, featuring plain gables and brick end chimney stacks. The building stands two storeys high and has three bays. It includes 16-pane sash windows set in segmental arched openings. There is a 20th-century projecting flat-roofed stone porch with side stairs leading to the central bay, and a plain mullioned 2-light basement window located between the first and second bays.

Attached to the west side is a lower two-storey, two-bay wing that was formerly a separate cottage. This wing features 20-light small pane casement windows that are not vertically aligned; the lower windows have exposed timber lintels. There are plain boarded doors beneath a wood lintel between the bays, as well as a similar door in a lean-to structure against the west gable.

The inn was formerly a slaughterhouse, and there is a well located in the extensive cellars, as noted in John A Cross's "A History and Guide Book of Horsington," which is undated.

Local climate

The Half Moon Inn receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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