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
81059
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
21/01/1988
Date of Amendment
23/05/2003
Name of Property
Circular pigsty at Craig Fawr Farm
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Swansea
Community
Mawr
Town
Swansea
Locality
Garnswllt
Easting
262111
Northing
208096
Street Side
Location
Situated uphill to right of Graig Fawr farmhouse, reached up track running SE from Garnswllt Road about 700m S of Garnswllt.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
Late C18 or early C19 circular beehive-type stone pigsty of regional type. 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
Pigsty, circular plan, of dry rubble stone in thin flat stones coursed and slightly corbelled-in each course, to a beehive-domed form. Single door with stone slab lintel and sill and slightly tapering sides. Dry stone L-plan wall in front.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as one of the relatively small number of survivors of this distinctive building type using early construction techniques.
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