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
Country
England
Date first listed
4 May 2016
Type
Garden feature
Source
Historic England listing

Description

A set of five bee boles in a farmhouse garden wall, probably of C18 or C19 date, although one bole was rebuilt in the late C20.

DESCRIPTION: constructed of Delabole slate and slate stone the bee boles are set within a rubble stone wall approximately 130cm in height. The boles take the form of five slate shelves divided by four ‘V’- shaped splayed piers of approximately nine 9 slender courses of stone, narrowest at the bottom and progressively wider towards the top. Each compartment is 40cm (16 inch) tall by 50cm (19 inch) wide and deep. Each bole was used for the storage of a bee colony, usually in a skep. The bee boles are lined with slate to the top, bottom and sides, projecting slightly from the wall.

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