Bee boles and stile in garden wall at Gilfach-uchaf farm, Llangynwyd Middle (Llangynwyd

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.5753 / 51°34'31"N

Longitude: -3.6627 / 3°39'45"W

OS Eastings: 284875

OS Northings: 187583

OS Grid: SS848875

Mapcode National: GBR H8.CZCG

Mapcode Global: VH5H3.GNJQ

Plus Code: 9C3RH8GP+4W

Entry Name: Bee boles and stile in garden wall at Gilfach-uchaf farm

Listing Date: 8 September 1998

Last Amended: 8 September 1998

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 20432

Building Class: Agriculture and Subsistence

ID on this website: 300020432

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 pri

County: Bridgend

Town: Llangynwyd Middle

Community: Llangynwyd Middle (Llangynwyd - Canol)

Community: Llangynwyd Middle

Locality: Gilfach

Traditional County: Glamorgan

Tagged with: Stile Bee bole

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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.

Reasons for Listing

Included as one of the few examples of the simple domestic structure once widely found, to survive in Glamorgan.

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Other nearby listed buildings

II Gilfach-ganol farmhouse
Located approximately 2000m SW of Llangynwyd, close by Afon Bryncynan and midway between the woods of Craig-yr-aber and Waun-y-gilfach. Access is by a long farm track from the road
II The Old House Inn PH
The inn is located immediately to the S of the churchyard, and accessed from the road around the churchyard walls.
II The Hopcyn Cross
The cross is set at the road junction immediately SW of the churchyard, at the centre of Llangynwyd village.
II Telephone call box in front of the Old House PH
The call box stands in the centre of the village, in the grass verge at the road side, in front of The Old House PH, and opposite the churchyard wall.
II Group of nine memorials on the W side of the path to the S porch, Church of St Cynwyd
The group comprises 5 chest tombs, 3 ledger slabs and 1 headstone, set immediately S of the Hopkin and Jenkins railed group, approximately 23m S of the S porch door.
II Group of 4 Hopkin and Jenkins tombs within iron railings on the W side of the path to the S porch
The goup of four tombs are enclosed in cast iron railings, and placed c.20m S of the S porch.
II Jenkins Monument in the churchyard, Church of St Cynwyd
The monumental tomb stands on the E side of the path to the S porch, approximately 22m from the door.
II Group of five tombs S of the tower of the Church of St Cynwyd
The tombs are set approximately end to end immediately S of the tower and S wall at the W end of the nave of the church, and adjacent to the path to the S door.

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Bee boles and stile in garden wall at Gilfach-uchaf farm

A Grade II Listed Building in Llangynwyd Middle (Llangynwyd - Canol), Bridgend