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
24/02/2004
Date of Amendment
24/02/2004
Name of Property
Pigsties at Nanteos Home Farm
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Location
Situated SW of Fferm Nanteos, running S from the corner of the farm complex.
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
History
C19 pigsties. The Home Farm belonged to Nanteos and the sties were probably added in the mid C19, and have similarities to the more modest example at nearby Glascrug. The property was sold in 1979 and the farm complex altered, though the sties remained.
Exterior
Single-storey 8-sty pigsty in uncoursed rubble stone with narrow gabled slate roof, deeper to rear. Front has 8 low arch-headed openings with rough stone voussoirs and boarded timber doors on iron hinges. Plain timber eaves board, possibly renewed in later C20.
Reason for designation
Included as an unusually large estate pigsty.
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