The Beehive is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1984. A Early Modern Public house. 3 related planning applications.
The Beehive
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-newel-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Constituency
- Reading West and Mid Berkshire MP: Olivia Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1984
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Beehive, Basildon, RG8 8LS
- OS grid reference
- SU 599 760
- Coordinates
- 51.48004, -1.13827
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Beehive is a public house dating from around 1500, with additions made in the mid-20th century to the north and west. The building features a timber frame with a later brick plinth and pebbledash render, along with additional rendered brick sections. It has an old tiled roof with an end stack to the south and an off-centre ridge stack to the north. Originally, it had an open hall consisting of three framed bays and is now two storeys high.
On the east front, there are five first-floor two-light casements, and on the ground floor, there are two three-light casements to the left and three two-light casements to the right. A 20th-century door is located between the first and second windows from the left, which is sheltered by a 20th-century gabled rustic timber porch. Inside, there is a 17th-century inserted floor in the central framed bay, along with arch bracing and smoke-blackened roof timbers.
Local climate
The Beehive sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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