Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
29/10/2003
Date of Amendment
29/10/2003
Name of Property
Pigsty and brewhouse range at Gilfach Goch
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Location
About 700m S of village. Above village reached via minor road and track. Built into hillside in sheltered position. The pigsties are to W of the house.
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
History
Late C18 or early C19 pigsty and brewhouse range.
Exterior
Single storey brewhouse with single unit pigsty to rear and walled yard to R (N). Built of coursed boulders; roof of small old slate with raking gable parapet to E, entrance, elevation and stone copings to opposite gable flanking a squat stone stack with dripstones and capping. The doorway is to the R (N) of the entrance elevation and has a small window to L. The entrance to the pigsty is in the N wall under a course of stones set at an angle; entrance to the yard is in the NE corner with stone lined feed chutes along the E wall.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well preserved brewhouse and pigsty range which forms a group with house and other agricultural buildings which together comprise a good example of a small rural farmstead.
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