Former Winter Bee-House At Pike Barns is a Grade II listed building in the Rochdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1986. Bee house.
Former Winter Bee-House At Pike Barns
- WRENN ID
- blind-trefoil-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rochdale
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1986
- Type
- Bee house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SF 91 NW LITTLEBOROUGH LIGHTOWLERS LANE (west side)
1/40 Former winter bee-house at - Pike Barns
- II Winter bee house. Early C18 (adjacent barn dated 1730). Hammer-dressed stone with graduated stone slate roof. One room which is approached by a flight of stone steps and is raised above an undercroft. Door with chamfered surround with small hatch to right and a casement window (a later insertion). Quoins. Chamfered surround to undercroft door in left return. Kneelers. The rear has 2 doors with chamfered surrounds and two 2-light windows with chamfered mullions (one mullion missing) on the upper floor. The internal wall of the upper storey contains two tiers of bee boles (square recesses where skeps were protected from the vagaries of the winter climate). The bee house is one of only a handful that have been recognised in the whole of Great Britain.
Listing NGR: SD9478317029
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