Stone Boundary Wall Incorporating Two Sets of Bee Boles, Beckside Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 March 1993. Boundary wall.
Stone Boundary Wall Incorporating Two Sets of Bee Boles, Beckside Cottage
- WRENN ID
- little-rubblework-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 March 1993
- Type
- Boundary wall
- Address
- Stone Boundary Wall Incorporating Two Sets of Bee Boles, Beckside Cottage, Lower Allithwaite
- OS grid reference
- SD 372 805
- Coordinates
- 54.21656, -2.96326
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The stone boundary wall at Beckside Cottage dates from the 19th century and features two sets of bee boles. Constructed from rubble Lakeland stone, the wall is built to courses and topped with irregular rough coping stones. At the south-west end, there is a set of five bee boles, which consist of five rectangular chambers divided by shallow upright stones resting on flat padstones. Two long lintol stones span these chambers, supporting additional wall courses and coping stones above. The front faces of the upright stones have been drilled to accommodate fixtures for securing hives against theft. Further to the north-east, there are two larger bee boles with a single upright divider stone, also topped with irregular lintol stones.
Local climate
Stone Boundary Wall Incorporating Two Sets of Bee Boles, Beckside Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,590 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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