FORMER WINTER BEE-HOUSE AT PIKE BARNS

FORMER WINTER BEE-HOUSE AT PIKE BARNS, LIGHTOWLERS LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1162280
Date first listed:: 23-Apr-1986
List Entry Name:: FORMER WINTER BEE-HOUSE AT PIKE BARNS
Statutory Address:: FORMER WINTER BEE-HOUSE AT PIKE BARNS, LIGHTOWLERS LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1162280
Date first listed:: 23-Apr-1986
List Entry Name:: FORMER WINTER BEE-HOUSE AT PIKE BARNS
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER WINTER BEE-HOUSE AT PIKE BARNS, LIGHTOWLERS LANE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: FORMER WINTER BEE-HOUSE AT PIKE BARNS, LIGHTOWLERS LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Rochdale (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 94783 17029

Details

SF 91 NW LITTLEBOROUGH LIGHTOWLERS LANE (west side)

1/40 Former winter bee-house at - Pike Barns

- II Winter bee house. Early C18 (adjacent barn dated 1730). Hammer-dressed stone with graduated stone slate roof. One room which is approached by a flight of stone steps and is raised above an undercroft. Door with chamfered surround with small hatch to right and a casement window (a later insertion). Quoins. Chamfered surround to undercroft door in left return. Kneelers. The rear has 2 doors with chamfered surrounds and two 2-light windows with chamfered mullions (one mullion missing) on the upper floor. The internal wall of the upper storey contains two tiers of bee boles (square recesses where skeps were protected from the vagaries of the winter climate). The bee house is one of only a handful that have been recognised in the whole of Great Britain.

Listing NGR: SD9478317029

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Legacy System number:: 213375
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.