Bee House in Rectory Garden is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1983. Bee house.
Bee House in Rectory Garden
- WRENN ID
- secret-plaster-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 November 1983
- Type
- Bee house
- Address
- Bee House in Rectory Garden, Church Road, Eaton and Eccleston
- OS grid reference
- SJ 413 624
- Coordinates
- 53.15626, -2.87911
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bee House in Rectory Garden is a small T-shaped building dating from 1870. It is constructed of English garden wall bond brown brick and features a gabled roof covered with shaped tiles. The gables are timber framed and have moulded finials at the ridge. There is a vertical bee exit located at the center of the ridge, along with bee exit and entry slits in the south wall. The entrance has a framed and boarded door. Inside, there is staging for beehives positioned under the access slits, making this a rare example of its kind.
Local climate
Bee House in Rectory Garden receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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