Beverley End tenter ground, apiary and ruined weavers' cottage

Terraces and walls forming tenter grounds, incorporating bee boles and other alcoves along with the ruins of an associated weavers’ cottage and other features, C18.

MATERIALS: local gritstone, generally squared and laid roughly to courses.

DESCRIPTION: the terraces are generally 2-3m wide, formed with drystone revetment walls that range in height from less than 0.5m to over 2m high, the site being enclosed by drystone boundary walls. Various sets of stone steps provide access between levels, including one set of steps formed from stones protruding from the face of a particularly high revetment wall, this being to the north-east of the cottage, beyond a public footpath that crosses the site.

Incorporated into the terrace walls are a number of rectangular alcoves with stone slab lintels and sills. Five of these alcoves, incorporated into two low revetment walls to the north-east of the cottage ruins, range between about 0.3-0.9m wide by 0.3-0.7m high and 0.3-0.7m deep and are identified as bee boles, each designed to hold a single skep. Further, larger recesses lie to the north and north-west of the cottage ruins, the largest being approximately 1.6m by 1.5m by 1m, these larger recesses possibly representing bee shelters, for keeping multiple skeps.

The ruined cottage lies central to the south-west side, and is reduced to low wall lines except for a single room that is roofed over with corrugated iron sheeting*. The front wall of this room appears to be rebuilt, but incorporates a two-light mullioned window. To its north-west is an outbuilding built into rising ground with a stone slab floor and roof, which incorporates very substantial dressed stone blocks in its construction, one being about 1m by 3.2m, with a drain hole passing beneath. Uphill and to the north of this is a stone built platform that appears to have been formed from partly truncating and then infilling another outbuilding. To the south-east of the cottage ruins there are the footings of a smaller outbuilding interpreted as a privy.

The listing includes the drystone walls that define the trackways immediately adjacent to the cottage and associated enclosures forming the site.

• Pursuant to s1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 the corrugated sheet roofing is not of special interest.

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 15/05/2018