Bee Boles in Walled Court 20 Metres South of Ash Barton is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 November 1985. Bee boles.
Bee Boles in Walled Court 20 Metres South of Ash Barton
- WRENN ID
- strange-chamber-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 November 1985
- Type
- Bee boles
- OS grid reference
- SS 511 372
- Coordinates
- 51.11521, -4.12832
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The bee-boles, likely from the 18th century, are located in a walled courtyard 20 meters south of Ash Barton. The courtyard features a lean-to animal shelter in front of the bee-boles, which has a 20th-century corrugated roof supported by timber. The walls are made of rubble, with cob in the upper sections and a pantiled capping. The south-facing wall is built higher than the other walls to accommodate the bee-boles, which are partially hidden by an inserted manger. There is a central door opening flanked by two tiers of ten plastered niches on each side, with slate bases and shouldered heads. Three pairs of bee-boles have been filled in with rubble. These bee-boles are situated to the south of an enclosed house garden and may have originally been part of a more elaborate garden design that has since been lost.
Local climate
Bee Boles in Walled Court 20 Metres South of Ash Barton sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% 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 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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