Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
21341
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
08/02/1999
Date of Amendment
08/02/1999
Name of Property
Piggery at Penychain
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llannor
Town
Pwllheli
Locality
Morfa Abererch
Easting
242724
Northing
336279
Street Side
S
Location
The farm is on the headland, c4km E of Pwllheli. The piggery closes the farmyard at the NE corner, and is separated from the hammel by a narrow service passage.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
Penychain was built by the Glyn-llifon Estate in the mid C19 as a model farm. The farm buildings demonstrate an efficient and organised approach to farming undertaken by large estates of the mid Victorian period.
Exterior
The piggery range is built of stone with slate roofs. It consists of 4 pig sties with open runs each side, each with dual feeding troughs on the W side accessed from the rear. The each sty has a low single opening to the run. The feeding structure in each run has slate troughs set under feed hoppers. Access to the sties is from a narrow passage via contemporary slatted iron gates leading from the farmyard end of the the small feed building at the S end, and is terminated on the N by the high crenellated perimeter wall linking the N wall of the N cowhouse range with the garden wall of the house.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a well-designed element within the farmyard of the well preserved estate farm group at Penychain.
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