Bee Boles is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 2016. Garden feature.
Bee Boles
- WRENN ID
- peeling-thatch-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 May 2016
- Type
- Garden feature
- Address
- Bee Boles, Dannonchapel Farm, St. Teath, Bodmin, PL30 3LR
- OS grid reference
- SX 038 823
- Coordinates
- 50.60794, -4.77411
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bee Boles are a set of five bee boles located in a farmhouse garden wall, likely dating from the 18th or 19th century, although one bole was rebuilt in the late 20th century.
The bee boles are made of Delabole slate and slate stone, set within a rubble stone wall that is approximately 130 centimeters high. The structure consists of five slate shelves separated by four ‘V’-shaped splayed piers, each made up of about nine slender courses of stone, which are narrowest at the bottom and progressively wider towards the top. Each compartment measures 40 centimeters tall by 50 centimeters wide and deep, and was used for storing a bee colony, typically in a skep. The bee boles are lined with slate on the top, bottom, and sides, projecting slightly from the wall.
Local climate
Bee Boles sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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