Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
11885
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/10/1986
Date of Amendment
02/03/1998
Name of Property
Circular Pigsty at Bryngelli
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Llanedi
Town
Swansea
Locality
Llanedi
Easting
258184
Northing
206092
Street Side
E
Location
E side of B4297 situated on Sardis Hill with pigsty partly built into the boundary wall of the garden at Bryngelli.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
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.
Interior
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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