Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pensianel Pigsty
Dyffryn Clydach, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Skewen, Neath, Dyffryn Clydach, Neath Port Talbot, designated on 26 May 1972.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 26 May 1972
- Locality
- Skewen
- Town
- Neath
- Community
- Dyffryn Clydach
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.67056, -3.84114
- Cadw reference
- 11770
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 247 Swansea (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
In an overgrown site some 90m NE of the house at Darren Farm and approximately 170m S of Darren Court.
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 with walls of courses of stones with little mortar. Circular plan, with rendered pointed dome roof constructed by slightly corbelling in each successive course of thin stones and the apex capped with a curved finial stone. Narrow door on S side with stone slab lintel.
Reason for designation
Included as a very rare and unusual example of a disappearing building type using an ancient form of construction.
Nearby in the register
- Three Round Cairns on Mynydd DrumauRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Quaker's Viaduct (partly in Dyffryn Clydach community)Transportunder 1 mi
- Quaker's Viaduct (partly in Coedffranc community)Transportunder 1 mi
- Carreg Bica Standing StoneStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.