Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pensianel Pigsty
Dyffryn Clydach, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
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
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (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.