Garden Wall with Bee Boles at Southwood House Farm is a Grade II listed building in the South Derbyshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 2010. Garden wall.
Garden Wall with Bee Boles at Southwood House Farm
- WRENN ID
- outer-window-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Derbyshire
- Constituency
- South Derbyshire MP: Samantha Niblett (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 2010
- Type
- Garden wall
- Address
- Garden Wall with Bee Boles at Southwood House Farm, Staunton Lane, Ticknall
- OS grid reference
- SK 358 215
- Coordinates
- 52.79015, -1.46994
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A garden wall with eleven bee boles, dating to approximately 1820, stands on the boundary of Southwood House Farm. The wall itself is constructed of coursed sandstone blocks with an ashlar coping, and forms part of the north-eastern corner of the boundary, approximately 70 metres north-east of the farmhouse. The bee boles are lined with brick on their sides, with sandstone bases and flat lintels. The wall has a curved section at the corner containing the bee boles, while the other corners are square, suggesting that the curve is linked to the bee boles’ construction and that both wall and boles are contemporary. Each bee bole is a rectangular recess measuring roughly 40cm high, 43cm wide, and 40cm deep, positioned 50cm above the base of the wall.
The Southwood estate was inherited by Robert Burdett in 1773 and later transferred to the Calke Abbey estate in 1821. William Woodward was the tenant farmer at the time the wall and bee boles were built, and a brick receipt dated circa 1820 and a plan from the same year confirm this timeframe. The wall, including the bee boles, originally formed the southern boundary of an orchard and was near a former wildflower garden. The group value context stems from the bee boles' integral relationship to the other buildings at Southwood House Farm. The bee boles are notable due to the relatively precise dating, which is a rare occurrence, as well as the unusual number of eleven in a set.
Local climate
Garden Wall with Bee Boles at Southwood House Farm receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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