The Bee Garden is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1952. A C16 Residential. 2 related planning applications.
The Bee Garden
- WRENN ID
- idle-kitchen-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Constituency
- Thornbury and Yate MP: Claire Young (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 October 1952
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- The Bee Garden, Olveston, BS35 4DU
- OS grid reference
- ST 598 871
- Coordinates
- 51.58151, -2.58054
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bee Garden is a house that likely originated as a barn, dating from the 15th or 16th century, with later alterations. It is constructed of rubble with stone dressings, partly rendered, and features a pantiled roof with raised coped verges and kneelers, as well as external gable stacks.
The east elevation has two storeys and two windows; the first floor includes a window with a depressed four-centred arch, a chamfered surround, and an iron lattice, while the ground floor has four 20th-century windows and a gabled porch. To the south, there is a 1½ storey lean-to with a 20th-century door and windows.
The north elevation features a gabled tower, likely the former stair, with slits in chamfered stone surrounds and a blocked four-centred arched door in a chamfered surround in the external stack. The west elevation has three 20th-century windows; the ground windows on the left and right have relieving arches, and the right side has a stopped hood mould. A former door to the right has a depressed four-centred arch with a hollow chamfer, which is now blocked and has a 20th-century window.
Inside, the first floor has a fireplace with a depressed four-centred arched head and a chamfered surround. The roof is visible in three bays to the north, featuring two rows of purlins and two tiers of windbraces, collars, and a winding wheel.
Local climate
The Bee Garden receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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