Bee Boles set into retaining wall at Upper House Farm, Crucorney (Crucornau Fawr), Monmouthshire

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.9064 / 51°54'23"N

Longitude: -3.045 / 3°2'41"W

OS Eastings: 328208

OS Northings: 223613

OS Grid: SO282236

Mapcode National: GBR F4.Q3B8

Mapcode Global: VH78T.5BLW

Plus Code: 9C3RWX44+H2

Entry Name: Bee Boles set into retaining wall at Upper House Farm

Listing Date: 8 June 1990

Last Amended: 29 January 1998

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 2833

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300002833

Location: Located in the retaining wall in front of the upper end of the farmhouse.

County: Monmouthshire

Town: Abergavenny

Community: Crucorney (Crucornau Fawr)

Community: Crucorney

Locality: Grwyne Fawr

Traditional County: Monmouthshire

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History

A bee shelter dating probably from the C19, but it could well be older or even C17 as such things did not change.

Exterior

Rectangular niches set into rubble retaining wall. Subdivided by upright stone slabs into three niches approximately 30 cm square with continuous dripstones over. Each niche would have given protective housing for a straw bee-skep.

Reasons for Listing

Included as a good example of a bee bole and having group value with the farmhouse and the listed farmyard buildings.

External Links

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Other nearby listed buildings

II Upper House Farmhouse
Located at the end of a long farm track leading off the east side of the road up the Grwyne Valley 2.5 kilometres from the Five Crossroads. It is sited end on to the slope high on the valley side.
II Barn at Upper House Farm
Located across the farmyard in front of the farmhouse end-on to the slope.
II Former malthouse at Upper House Farm, including retaining wall to front
Located immediately behind the farmhouse. Set into the hillside at its upper end.
II Cartshed at Upper House Farm
Adjoining the former Malt House immediately behind the farmhouse.
II* Ty-mawr Farmhouse
About 2.5km north of Forest Coal Pit. On the east side of the valley, reached by a lane which leaves the minor road to Grwyne Fawr reservoir near Tabernacle Baptist chapel.
II Bee bole at Ty-mawr Farm
In the garden wall immediately to the east of Ty-mawr,
II Barn Range at Ty-Mawr
About 20m to south of Ty Mawr Farmhouse, aligned roughly east-west across slope of ground, upper (east) end built into slope; lower end thus has two storeys.
II Y Coed including attached former byre
Approximately 0.8km NNE of Partrishow church, on E side of a minor road through Grwyne Fawr valley.

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Bee Boles set into retaining wall at Upper House Farm

A Grade II Listed Building in Crucorney (Crucornau Fawr), Monmouthshire