Shelf for Bee-Skeps in rear Garden Wall of Y Garn is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 April 1993. Shelf for bee-skeps.

Shelf for Bee-Skeps in rear Garden Wall of Y Garn

WRENN ID
burning-screen-alder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
29 April 1993
Type
Shelf for bee-skeps
Address
Shelf for Bee-Skeps in rear Garden Wall of Y Garn, Abercastle, Mathry
OS grid reference
SM 856 333
Coordinates
51.95739, -5.1216
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The building is a shelf for bee-skeps located in the rear garden wall of Y Garn. It is constructed with unpainted roughcast over rubble stone and features a grouted slate roof with roughcast end stacks, the larger stack being on the left. The front of the building is two-storey with three windows, each containing 12-pane hornless sashes and slate sills. A centre ledged door is accessed by four steps. The north end wall is made of rubble stone and has a small 12-pane stair light. There is an outshut at the rear and an attached northeast outbuilding with a grouted slate roof and a door at the west end.

In the north wall of the rear garden, there is a sunk shelf with a slate lintel specifically designed for bee-skeps. Inside, the building has sawn pine floor timbers and a small stair to the right of the fireplace, which features an oak lintel.

Local climate

Shelf for Bee-Skeps in rear Garden Wall of Y Garn 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 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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