Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
11770
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/05/1972
Date of Amendment
22/12/2003
Name of Property
Pensianel Pigsty
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Community
Dyffryn Clydach
Town
Neath
Locality
Skewen
Easting
272777
Northing
198471
Street Side
Location
In an overgrown site some 90m NE of the house at Darren Farm and approximately 170m S of Darren Court.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
Late C18 or early C19 corbelled pigsty. The date range for this style of pigsty in Glamorgan is uncertain, but they are noted as early as 1796 by travellers and the latest dated example is 1856 in Gwent.
Exterior
Circular pigsty, rubble stone with walls of courses of stones with little mortar. Circular plan, with rendered pointed dome roof constructed by slightly corbelling in each successive course of thin stones and the apex capped with a curved finial stone. Narrow door on S side with stone slab lintel.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a very rare and unusual example of a disappearing building type using an ancient form of construction.
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