Bee boles and stile in garden wall at Gilfach-uchaf farm is a Grade II listed building in the Bridgend local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 8 September 1998. Garden feature.

Bee boles and stile in garden wall at Gilfach-uchaf farm

WRENN ID
open-chimney-primrose
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bridgend
Constituency
Aberafan Maesteg MP: Stephen Kinnock (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
8 September 1998
Type
Garden feature
Address
Bee boles and stile in garden wall at Gilfach-uchaf farm, Llangynwyd Middle
OS grid reference
SS 848 875
Coordinates
51.57532, -3.66271
Source
Cadw listing

Also on this page: flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

The building consists of bee boles and a stile located in the garden wall at Gilfach-uchaf farm. The dry-stone northern wall extends east from the house and curves around to enclose the eastern end of the garden. There are three bee boles built into the wall, featuring open-fronted recesses that are aligned side by side. Each bole measures approximately 45 centimeters wide, 38 centimeters high, and 30 centimeters deep, with the base for the skips positioned about 50 centimeters above the original garden level. The stile is located in the same wall, approximately 2 meters south of the last bee bole, providing access to a path leading to the nearby Gilfach-ganol farm. It consists of a stone slab that stands about 0.54 meters high above the step on each side of the wall, with the slab set in a rebate within the dry-stone jambs of the wall.

Local climate

Bee boles and stile in garden wall at Gilfach-uchaf farm sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • No sale records on file
  • No related consent applications matched
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

See all similar buildings →

this building   1 similar   nearby listed buildings

Nearby listed buildings

  1. Gilfach-ganol farmhouse Grade II 33 m
  2. The Old House Inn PH Grade II 1.5 km
  3. The Hopcyn Cross Grade II 1.5 km
  4. Telephone call box in front of the Old House PH Grade II 1.5 km
  5. Group of nine memorials on the W side of the path to the S porch, Church of St Cynwyd Grade II 1.5 km
  6. Jenkins Monument in the churchyard, Church of St Cynwyd Grade II 1.5 km
  7. Group of 4 Hopkin and Jenkins tombs within iron railings on the W side of the path to the S porch Grade II 1.5 km
  8. Group of five tombs S of the tower of the Church of St Cynwyd Grade II 1.5 km
  9. Churchyard walls around the graveyard, Church of St Cynwyd Grade II 1.5 km
  10. Two chest tombs on S side of the Church of St Cynwyd Grade II 1.5 km