Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
3288
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
08/10/1981
Date of Amendment
28/09/1999
Name of Property
Row of Pigsties at Llechan-uchaf
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Henryd
Town
Conwy
Locality
Llechwedd
Easting
275496
Northing
375692
Street Side
Location
Llechan-uchaf is in the Gyffin Valley some 2km NW of Henryd. The pigsties are built into a retaining wall above a field known as Cae Moch immediately to the rear of the farm courtyard.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
There is no real dating evidence for these firmly vernacular structures, but they are likely to be no later than the later C18 and could be considerably earlier.
Exterior
A rough stone rubble retaining wall contains 8 entries to small rectangular stone lined cells or pigsties with corbelled flat stone roofs.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a large group of exceptionally well-preserved pigsties of a vernacular type which is now rare.
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