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
- Constituency
- Rochdale MP: Paul Waugh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1986
- Type
- Bee house
- Address
- Former Winter Bee-House at Pike Barns, Lightowlers Lane
- OS grid reference
- SD 947 170
- Coordinates
- 53.64975, -2.0804
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former winter bee-house at Pike Barns is an early 18th-century structure, located adjacent to a barn dated 1730. It is built from hammer-dressed stone and features a graduated stone slate roof. The building consists of one room that is accessed by a flight of stone steps and is elevated above an undercroft. The entrance door has a chamfered surround, with a small hatch to the right and a later-added casement window. The corners of the building are accentuated with quoins, and there is a chamfered surround to the undercroft door on the left side. The building also has kneelers. On the rear, there are two doors with chamfered surrounds and two 2-light windows with chamfered mullions, although one of the mullions is missing, located on the upper floor. Inside the upper storey, the internal wall contains two tiers of bee boles, which are square recesses designed to protect skeps from harsh winter conditions. This bee-house is one of only a few recognized examples in the whole of Great Britain.
Local climate
Former Winter Bee-House at Pike Barns sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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