Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bee-boles at Aberwheeler House
Aberwheeler, Denbighshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Aberwheeler House, Aberwheeler, Denbighshire, designated on 20 May 2002.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 20 May 2002
- Locality
- Aberwheeler House
- Community
- Aberwheeler
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.21911, -3.34993
- Cadw reference
- 26645
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 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
At north-west corner of the garden to the rear of Aberwheeler House
History
Bee-keeping is known from the C18 in north-east Wales, and probably from the C17; in 1797 the Wrexham Agricultural Society was awarding prizes for honey. Compare early bee-boles (for single skeps) at Garthgynan (Llanfair D C), or large ones at Plas-yn-rhos (Llangynhafal).
Exterior
A set of six bee-boles in a wall of handmade brickwork. The site chosen is south-facing, which is known to have been favoured as encouraging early working of the bees. These are wide bee-boles, compared e.g. with Garthgynan, probably to take two bee skeps in each.
Each is about 0.9 m wide with a depressed arch springing from about 0.3 m; the inside of each bole is painted white.
Reason for designation
Listed as a set of early bee-boles and for group value with Aberwheeler House.
Nearby in the register
- Aberwheeler HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn at Aberwheeler HouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- The Old School and SchoolhouseEducationunder 1 mi
- Dinorben Arms Public HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.