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0172

General Information

  • Registration number
    0172
  • Date constructed
    N/A
  • Century constructed
    Unknown
  • Evidence proof date
    Flight holes constructed within stonework of building
  • Evidence proof use
    Flight holes constructed within stonework of building
  • Listed building grade
    N/A
  • Condition
    6

Address

  • Address
    Castlehill Farm
  • Village or town
    East Kilbride
  • County
    Lanarkshire, South
  • Traditional County (pre 1974)
    Lanarkshire
  • Region
    Scotland

Premises

  • Accessible
    Private
  • Location on Premises
    Garden
  • Direction faced
    N/A

Structure Information

  • Structure
    H: Bee house
  • External recesses
    N/A
  • Internal recesses
    8
  • Compartments
    N/A
  • Flight holes
    8
  • Front shape
    Other (see notes)
  • Back shape
    Flat/rounded
  • Recess size
    N/A
  • House building shape
    circular
  • External structure
    N/A
  • Distance apart
    N/A
  • Rows
    1
  • Shelves
    8
  • Height bases shelves
    N/A
  • Wall material
    Stone
  • Base shelf material
    N/A
  • Lintel material
    N/A
  • Roof material
    N/A

Photography Information

  • Date of photograph
    2019
  • Pictures available
    G+: Digital and other types

Notes

  • Each flight entrance has alighting board; inside each one: 2 stone pillars (for hive or shelf). There are also bee boles in garden wall (0173)

    Further information was received in October 2019 from the new owner, Colin Walker: 

    "I thought you might like some additional images of the bee house interior which houses 8 pillars, each corresponding to a bee bole with a tiny hole where the bee would enter and upon which the hive would be placed. It’s a very unusual structure and I believe quite unique. On the outside each hole corresponds to a resting sill for the bee.

    I can only assume the other listing 0173 relates to the 3 beeboles in the south facing wall of the walled garden of which the round bee house is at the center."

     

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