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.
Date of Designation
29/10/1986
Date of Amendment
02/03/1998
Name of Property
Circular Pigsty at Bryngelli
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Location
E side of B4297 situated on Sardis Hill with pigsty partly built into the boundary wall of the garden at Bryngelli.
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
History
Traditional vernacular pigsty probably dating from the late C18 - early C19.
Exterior
Small yard, original entry through narrow upright opening in boundary wall (now blocked). Pigsty partly built into wall, consisting of rubble stone laid in corbelled courses which curve to form a conical chamber, crowned on top by a domed capping stone. Entrance to the sty through a small flat headed opening (now blocked). Partly overgrown with ivy at time of inspection but otherwise in good state.
Reason for designation
A well-preserved and historically important survival of a regional vernacular building type once common but now rare.
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