The Beehive is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1973. Cottage, shop, house.
The Beehive
- WRENN ID
- third-tracery-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Constituency
- Folkestone and Hythe MP: Tony Vaughan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 January 1973
- Type
- Cottage, shop, house
- Address
- The Beehive, 10, High Street, Lydd
- OS grid reference
- TR 042 209
- Coordinates
- 50.9518, 0.9059
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Beehive is a building located on the north-west side of High Street, dating from 1715 and featuring the initials C T A. It consists of three cottages, a shop, and a house all under one roof. The Beehive is two storeys high, constructed of painted brick, with a casement window on the first floor and sash or modern windows on the ground floor. It has a plinth. The adjacent cottages, numbered 6 and 8, are early 19th century and also two storeys high, made of painted brick, with a modillion eaves cornice and sash windows that have vertical glazing bars. There is a contemporary hop front with two small openings that have a shelf outside, a wooden grille inside, and a stable-type door in two sections, topped with a flat hood. The entire block has a tiled roof and consists of six bays in total. The buildings from Nos 6 to 22 (even) and Nos 26 to 32 (even) form a group.
Local climate
The Beehive receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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