Bee Boles set into retaining wall at Upper House Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Brecon Beacons National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 8 June 1990. House.

Bee Boles set into retaining wall at Upper House Farm

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Brecon Beacons National Park
Constituency
Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
8 June 1990
Type
House
Address
Bee Boles set into retaining wall at Upper House Farm, Grwyne Fawr, Abergavenny, Crucorney, Monmouthshire
OS grid reference
SO 282 236
Coordinates
51.90641, -3.04498
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Bee boles are rectangular niches set into a rubble retaining wall at Upper House Farm. The wall is subdivided by upright stone slabs into three niches, each approximately 30 centimeters square, with continuous dripstones above. Each niche would have provided protective housing for a straw bee-skep.

Local climate

Bee Boles set into retaining wall at Upper House Farm receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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