Description

SF 91 NW LITTLEBOROUGH LIGHTOWLERS LANE
(west side)

1/40 Former winter
bee-house at
- Pike Barns

- II
Winter bee house. Early C18 (adjacent barn dated 1730).
Hammer-dressed stone with graduated stone slate roof. One
room which is approached by a flight of stone steps and is
raised above an undercroft. Door with chamfered surround
with small hatch to right and a casement window (a later
insertion). Quoins. Chamfered surround to undercroft door in
left return. Kneelers. The rear has 2 doors with chamfered
surrounds and two 2-light windows with chamfered mullions
(one mullion missing) on the upper floor. The internal wall
of the upper storey contains two tiers of bee boles (square
recesses where skeps were protected from the vagaries of the
winter climate). The bee house is one of only a handful
that have been recognised in the whole of Great Britain.

Listing NGR: SD9478317029

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26455880

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Recommended Books

• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
• 
  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]