Summary
A farmyard wall with bee boles constructed of Delabole stone and slate, of late-C18 or early-C19 date.
Reasons for Designation
The bee bole wall at Dannonchapel Farm, St Teath, Cornwall is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Architectural interest: the structure is built using a Cornish method once that is not only structurally sound but also provides distinctive ‘V’ splayed piers in local stone as an interesting if modest example of the vernacular vocabulary;
* Historic interest: bee boles are a distinctive physical record of an historic agricultural activity;
* Rarity: bee bole structures are relatively uncommon survivals;
* Degree of survival: these bee boles are largely intact.
History
The manor of ‘Duuenant’ was recorded at Domesday when it was held by Blohin from Count Robert of Mortain, 2nd Earl of Cornwall (c.1031-1090). The manor was probably centred on Dannonchapel, and this name was first recorded in 1306, the ‘chapel’ suffix indicating that a manorial chapel once stood in the vicinity. The current farm buildings date from the C18 to C20, or possibly slightly earlier, and the farmhouse and garden walls are shown on the Tithe Map of 1840. In 1958, the bee boles were recorded for the Register of Bee Boles by the National Beekeeping Museum and at this time it was considered that they were at least 100 years old. Bee boles were built as an integral part of a wall, open only at the front, in which a straw skep (holding a bee colony) was placed to shield it from wind and rain. The wall is shown on the tithe map of 1843 and may date to the construction of the adjacent farmhouse, c. late C18 or early C19. The farm became redundant in the later C20.
Details
A set of five bee boles in a farmhouse garden wall, probably of C18 or C19 date, although one bole was rebuilt in the late C20.
Sources
Websites http://ibra.beeboles.org.uk/search_detail.php?beeboleIBRARegNo=0335 Other
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
The listed building(s) is/are shown coloured blue on the attached map. Pursuant to s.1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (‘the Act’), structures attached to or within the curtilage of the listed building (save those coloured blue on the map) are not to be treated as part of the listed building for the purposes of the Act.
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