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
20029
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
26/06/1998
Date of Amendment
26/06/1998
Name of Property
Pigsty at Bwlch-y-garreg
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Aberdaron
Town
Pwllheli
Locality
Rhiw
Easting
222520
Northing
327754
Street Side
Location
Situated by entry to front yard of Bwlch-y-garreg, just W of Rhiw crossroads.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Pigsty added to smallholding at Bwlch-y-garreg reputedly c1870 when the house at Rhiwlas was being built for the Rowlands family by the Nanhoron estate.
Exterior
Pigsty, rubble stone with slate roof, of longer pitch to the front. Low door to right and walled yard with well-built low walls coped in slabs. Entry to E with long feed-chute between entry and pigsty corner, the feed-chute with long slab lintel and brick sill.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for group value with the house and goose-shelter at Bwlch-y-garreg, all parts of a unusually complete small cottage farm unit of a type characteristic of the region.
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