Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
82048
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
06/11/2003
Date of Amendment
06/11/2003
Name of Property
Circular pigsty at Blaendulais Farm
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Community
Seven Sisters
Town
Neath
Locality
Easting
281455
Northing
208856
Street Side
Location
On the E side of the farmyard and just S of the house at Blaendulais Farm.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
Late C18 or early C19 corbelled pigsty. The date range for this style of pigsty in Glamorgan is uncertain, but they are noted as early as 1796 by travellers and the latest dated example is 1856 in Gwent.
Exterior
Circular pigsty, rubble stone in courses of thin stones with little mortar, rendered and probably originally whitewashed. Circular plan, battered walls curving in to pointed dome roof constructed by slightly corbelling in each successive course and the apex capped with a curved finial stone. Narrow door with iron lintels. On S side tiny window with projecting stone lintel.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a very rare and unusual example of a disappearing building type using and ancient form of construction.
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