Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bee bole at Ty-mawr Farm
Crucorney, Monmouthshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Grwyne Fawr, Abergavenny, Crucorney, Monmouthshire, designated on 29 January 1998.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 29 January 1998
- Locality
- Grwyne Fawr
- Town
- Abergavenny
- Community
- Crucorney
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.90311, -3.04222
- Cadw reference
- 19256
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1856 · 42. Brecon. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · 214 Talgarth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
In the garden wall immediately to the east of Ty-mawr,
History
A bee shelter dating probably from the C19, but it could well be older as such things did not change.
Exterior
Thin coursed dry stone garden wall has a rectangular framed opening with recess behind facing south. This retains two circular stone platters for the bases of the bee skeps.
Reason for designation
Included as a good example of a bee bole and having group value with Ty-mawr Farmhouse and barn.
Nearby in the register
- Ty-mawr FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn Range at Ty-MawrAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Y Coed including attached former byreDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn at Upper House FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.