Bee House at Ickwell Bury is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1985. Bee house. 1 related planning application.
Bee House at Ickwell Bury
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-hall-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1985
- Type
- Bee house
- Address
- Bee House at Ickwell Bury, Northill, SG18 9EF
- OS grid reference
- TL 145 456
- Coordinates
- 52.09694, -0.32948
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bee House at Ickwell Bury is a 19th-century structure designed for housing bees. It features a timber-framed construction set on a red brick plinth and is weatherboarded with a thatched roof. The building is small and rectangular, topped with a gabled roof. There is a plank door on the southeast gable end, and both gable ends have small round holes at the apex to allow access for bees. Inside, the bee house retains wooden shelving that once held beehives. This building is noted for being a rare example of its type.
Local climate
Bee House at Ickwell Bury sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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