Bee-house, Tayfield House is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 January 2014. Bee-house.
Bee-house, Tayfield House
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-stone-mint
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- North East Fife MP: Wendy Chamberlain (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 January 2014
- Type
- Bee-house
- OS grid reference
- NO 421 273
- Coordinates
- 56.4351, -2.94037
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The bee-house at Tayfield House dates from around 1850 and features a rectangular plan with a gabled roof. It is located near the south-facing external wall of the walled garden within the grounds of Tayfield House. The structure is windowless and painted white, adorned with brightly coloured semi-circles around the flight holes, which are complemented by half-moon timber platforms. The gables are topped with a ball and dart timber finial. There is a door on the north side of the building. The south wall has two rows of four flight holes, while each of the east and west walls has two rows of two flight holes. Each flight hole measures 2 inches by one-quarter inch and is fronted by a circular platform with a 5-inch radius. The interior, as observed in 2013, retains some timber shelving that likely supported the bee hives, known as 'skeps'.
Local climate
Bee-house, Tayfield House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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