Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
18710
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
05/08/1997
Date of Amendment
05/08/1997
Name of Property
Piggery at Plas Kinmel
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Abergele
Town
Abergele
Locality
Plas Kinmel
Easting
298066
Northing
376560
Street Side
Location
Plas Kinmel stands at the E at the bottom of Primrose Hill, N of St George village. The piggery lies on the E side of the E range of the farmyard, and behind the dovecote at the end of the S range.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
Plas Kinmel was designed as a model farm in 1866-7 for H R Hughes of Kinmel, employing a foremost architect, W E Nesfield, who had, unusually, previously designed and detailed farm buildings in Lancashire and Derbyshire.
Exterior
Built of limestone with slate roofs. The piggery is laid out around three sides of a square yard, which is entered from the SW corner. Five styes on the N, each with a small exercise yard bounded by walls 1.3m high, and paired gates. Single opening into the sty, and a steeply pitched ventilation dormer shared between two adjoining styes. Three similar styes on the E side, the roof of which continues to a hipped end, the last bay opening into a large farrowing run, which forms the S side of the yard. The front of this sty is partially walled in brick.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included at Grade II* as an example of the care of detail exercised by a foremost Victorian architect on a small element of the model farm complex.
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