Description

TQ 64 SW CAPEL HALF MOON LANE

5/264 Half Moon Cottage

5.11.86
II

Cottage, originally a small farmhouse and once, apparently, 2 cottages.
Mid/late C17, probably divided in the late C18, reunited in the C20 and
modernised circa 1986. Timber-framed. Front wall rebuilt in C18 Flemish bond
red brick with burnt headers. Rest is hidden behind secondary outshots except
for the west end gable which is tile-hung. Brick stack and chimneyshaft; peg-
tile roof.

Plan: 3-room plan farmhouse built across the hillslope facing south and
uphill. Large central room with rear lateral stack projecting into the rear
outshot flanked by smaller unheated rooms.

2 storeys with attics in the roofspace. Secondary lean-to outshots on both
ends and across the rear. The rear one is probably the earliest and is
terraced down the hillslope lower than the main house.

Exterior: Regular but not symmetrical 3-window front of circa 1986 casements
with glazing bars with a fourth in the front of the left outshot. Ground
floor windows have low segmental arches over. Front doorway right of centre
contains a C20 panelled door behind contemporary gabled porch. Main roof is
gable-ended to left and hipped to right. It contains a front gabled dormer
and another in the right hip.

Interior: Largely the result of the C20 modernisation at which time some
timbers were replaced. Carpentry detail is plain. The large brick fireplace
has a chamfered oak lintel. Roof was not inspected but is said to be of side
purlin construction.

Listing NGR: TQ6313444020

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26552814

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Recommended Books

• 
  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)