Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
25537
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
18/07/2001
Date of Amendment
18/07/2001
Name of Property
Bee-boles at Gelliargwellt Uchaf
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Caerphilly
Community
Gelligaer
Town
Locality
Llancaiach
Easting
312530
Northing
196444
Street Side
Location
Set in the E garden wall of Gelliargwellt.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
Bee-boles were created to house straw beehives or skeps. They mostly have a SE facing aspect and all in Glamorgan are built into garden walls. Wooden beehives replaced them in the mid C19.
Exterior
Range of 6 small round-arched recesses with voussoirs painted white set into inner side of garden wall facing SW.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as an interesting survival of a range of bee-boles and for group value with the farmhouse.
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