The Half Moon House is a Grade 11 Listed Building, first listed in 1960 and the listing amended in 1987.
According to Historic England The Half Moon House, (formerly known as The Crescent) c1800, was probably built at the instigation of Edmund John Chamberlayne. He seems to have intended to make Maugersbury (in a modest way) a 'model village', of which the most striking survival is The Half Moon House. When it was built it was four small cottages and an estate school room in the centre. The Chamberlayne crest showing a horse's head above a crown on square painted background is above the central door which opened into a through passage. Now in one occupation, it has been known as Half Moon House since 1991.
The above photographs show families living in The Crescent circa 1950.
The artist L S Lowry (1887-1976) was most famous for painting scenes of life in the industrial districts of the north of England in the mid-20th Century. But in the bitter winter of 1947, Lowry paid a visit to the Cotswolds and celebrated the local area by depicting winter street views of Moreton-in-Marsh, Bourton-on-the-Water, Stow-on-the-Wold and Northleach. The drawing of “A Curved House, Maugersbury”, i.e., The Half Moon, realised a price of £32,450 in 2010 at Christie’s.
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