Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Farm Range with Bee-boles at Beddau Farmhouse
Caerphilly, Caerphilly, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 18 February 1999
- Locality
- Beddau
- Town
- Caerphilly
- Community
- Caerphilly
- Unitary authority
- Caerphilly
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.57462, -3.23488
- Cadw reference
- 21379
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Located at the junction of St Cenydd Road and Nantgarw Road. The bee-boles are in a wall overlooking the front garden of Beddau farmhouse.
History
C18 - early C19. Bee-boles in long farm range, a cow-house and probable stable. The bee-boles were still in use in the 1940s.
Exterior
Two adjacent bee-boles, each with projecting lintels and sills of rough monolithic stone. Located within the SE-facing wall of a long farm range. The rubble stone range is partially ruined and has lost its roof coverings. Six-bay with central masonry dividing wall and light Queen-post trusses. Planked doors face NW under segmental voussoired heads at different heights. The L half has 3 doors and the R half has 1 door. A further door under a flat head has been added to the far R. Two openings to loft. The SE wall containing the bee-boles has been rendered and whitened, and contains no other openings. One iron tie plate is fixed to the wall.
Interior
No access to interior of farm range at time of inspection (25/9/98).
Reason for designation
Listed for the special interest of the well preserved bee-boles, a feature now becoming very rare in the area.
Nearby in the register
- Wesley Methodist ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Caerphilly Iron FurnaceIronworksunder 1 mi
- Memorial to David WilliamsCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Caerphilly CastleCastleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.