BEE HOUSE TO WEST OF DALE HEAD FARMHOUSE AND WALL TO LEFT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1316282
Date first listed:: 20-Dec-1990
List Entry Name:: BEE HOUSE TO WEST OF DALE HEAD FARMHOUSE AND WALL TO LEFT
Statutory Address:: BEE HOUSE TO WEST OF DALE HEAD FARMHOUSE AND WALL TO LEFT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1316282
Date first listed:: 20-Dec-1990
List Entry Name:: BEE HOUSE TO WEST OF DALE HEAD FARMHOUSE AND WALL TO LEFT
Statutory Address 1:: BEE HOUSE TO WEST OF DALE HEAD FARMHOUSE AND WALL TO LEFT

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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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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Location

Statutory Address:: BEE HOUSE TO WEST OF DALE HEAD FARMHOUSE AND WALL TO LEFT

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

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Westerdale
National Park:: NORTH YORK MOORS
National Grid Reference:: NZ6777604440

Details

NZ 60 SE WESTERDALE WESTERDALE (east side)

10/148 Bee house to west of Dale Head Farmhouse and wall to left

II*

Purpose-built bee shelter and wall. 1832. Sandstone with purple Lakeland slate roof. Lectern shape. 1 low storey. Plinth with coping band. Upon this an arcade of 6 shouldered segmental arches with monolith heads supported on side masonry and single slabs between. The alcoves thus formed were used as shelters for straw bee skeps in winter. Band at eaves. Stone ridge and end copings, moulded kneelers.

Short length of low wall to left holds bronze plaque dating the building and also its restoration in 1983 by the National Park Committee.

RCHM op cit p.186.

Listing NGR: NZ6777604440

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Legacy System:: LBS

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Houses of the North York Moors, (1987), 186

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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.