Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bee Boles set into retaining wall at Upper House Farm
Crucorney, Monmouthshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Grwyne Fawr, Abergavenny, Crucorney, Monmouthshire, designated on 8 June 1990.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 8 June 1990
- Locality
- Grwyne Fawr
- Town
- Abergavenny
- Community
- Crucorney
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.90641, -3.04498
- Cadw reference
- 2833
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
Located in the retaining wall in front of the upper end of the farmhouse.
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.
Reason for designation
Included as a good example of a bee bole and having group value with the farmhouse and the listed farmyard buildings.
Nearby in the register
- Upper House FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn at Upper House FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Former malthouse at Upper House Farm, including retaining wall to frontDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cartshed at Upper House FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.