Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
20432
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
08/09/1998
Date of Amendment
08/09/1998
Name of Property
Bee boles and stile in garden wall at Gilfach-uchaf farm
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Bridgend
Community
Llangynwyd Middle
Town
Llangynwyd Middle
Locality
Gilfach
Easting
284875
Northing
187583
Street Side
Location
Gilfach-uchaf farm lies on high ground SW of Llangynwyd village, and is reached by a farm road off the minor road from Llangynwyd to Aberafon. The bee boles are set in a wall at the end of a small private garden on the E side of the house.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
Gilfach uchaf is a farmhouse of early C19 date, incorporating slight evidence of an earlier building on a platform site. The bee boles are probably of the early C19 but possibly earlier in date.
Exterior
The dry-stone N wall extending E from the house curves round to enclose the E end of the garden. The three bee boles are built into the wall, and consist of open fronted recesses in line abreast, each approximately 45cm wide x 38cm high and 30cm deep, the base for the skips is approximately 50cm from the original garden level. The style is in the same wall, about 2m further S of the last bole, and provides for access for a path to Gilfach-ganol farm, close by. It consists of a stone slab, c. 0.54m high above the step each side of the wall, the slab set in a rebate in the dry-stone jambs of the wall.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as one of the few examples of the simple domestic structure once widely found, to survive in Glamorgan.
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