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A clochán (plural clocháin) or beehive hut is a dry-stone hut with a corbelled roof, commonly associated with the south-western Irish seaboard. The precise construction date of most of these structures is unknown with the buildings belonging to a long-established Celtic tradition, though there is at present no direct evidence to date the ...
The Beehive's brown roof is made from 20 tonnes (44,000 lb) of hand-welted and seamed copper. It has developed a naturally weathered appearance. A tunnel runs under Bowen Street from The Beehive to parliamentary offices in Bowen House. [7] The Beehive's circular footprint (see rotunda) is generally considered an elegant and distinctive design ...
The Italian term trullo (from the Greek word τρούλος, cupola) refers to a house whose internal space is covered by a dry stone corbelled or keystone vault. Trullo is an Italianized form of the dialectal term, truddu, used in a specific area of the Salentine peninsula (i.e. Lizzaio, Maruggio, and Avetrana, in other words, outside the Murgia dei Trulli proper), where it is the name of the ...
Resembling the shape of beehives or shells, they are also known as "cases obus" (granate houses). [3] They are adobe structures, a variant of cob, and are in the catenary arch form, which can bear maximum weight with the minimum use of building materials. [4] The dwellings also are described as "beehive type" because of their dome shape.
Painted wooden beehives with active honey bees A honeycomb created inside a wooden beehive. A beehive is an enclosed structure where some honey bee species of the subgenus Apis live and raise their young. Though the word beehive is used to describe the nest of any bee colony, scientific and professional literature distinguishes nest from hive.
Abandoned beehive coke ovens near the ghost town of Cochran, Arizona A beehive oven is a type of oven in use since the Middle Ages in Europe. [ 1 ] It gets its name from its domed shape, which resembles that of a skep , an old-fashioned type of beehive .
Bee boles containing skeps, at the Lost Gardens of Heligan, Cornwall(Register No. 0356): unusually for southern England, they have doors. A Bee House. Surviving bee boles are built in stone, brick, or cob walls; some found in sandstone walls have shaped, arched tops. Many stone bee boles are in drystone walls, but others are mortared.
The New Beehive Inn (for a period in the 1980s known as The Bradfordian) is a former pub in Bradford, England. It was built by Bradford Corporation (the local authority) in 1901 to replace an existing public house of the same name that they had purchased in 1889 and demolished to widen a road. The corporation intended to run the pub itself but ...