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
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.
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